On Thursday 5/5 and Tuesday 10/5 STG held a basic CNC milling workshop using the Roland MDX-40A at Fabriken. We went through the basics on how to set up and calibrate the machine, attach a workpiece and specifying geometry, generating toolpaths of a couple different types (holes, surfacing, from 3d-models) and performing the actual milling.
This will be followed by a PCB-engraving workshop on Sunday 22/5, and also advanced workshops (dates not set, will be posted on the list) including some basic CAD and two-sided milling with supports and using guide-pins.
Malmös hackerspace Forskningsavdelningens har fått tagit över Microdisko och på Kontrapunkts torsdagshäng blir det en liten smygpremiär utav vad som komma skall i framtiden!
Kom och häng med dina vänner och lira gamla spel (vi kommer ha massvis med gamla spelkonsoler), lyssna på chipmusik, kolla på massa demos och ha det svintrevligt!
LIVE PÅ SCEN: Salkninitzor ifrån 047 och Linde
När? Torsdag 19e:e maj, 19.00-01.00
Var? Kontrapunkt, Västanforsgatan 21, Malmö
Hur? Fri entré. OBS Endast medlemmar! Bli medlem här.
Lite mer info om Microdisko:
Microdisko är eller var rättare sagt en av de största klubbarna som anordnade fester med chipmusik (http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chipmusik) i främst Stockholm men har också kört i Göteborg och Malmö.
Nu drar det igång igen fast nere i Malmö och med ett helt nytt gäng med folk ur malmös hackerspace Forskningsavdelningen.
Microdisko har kört fester med namn från hela världen som bland annat Dubmood, Crazy Q, Goto80, Vonvox, Paza, Stu, 8GB, Bubblyfish, Boy, Bacteria, Cornbeast, Tigertassar, USK, Maru, Meneo, Tero, Nullsleep, Bud Melvin, Quarta330, Räuberhöhle, YM Rockerz, Moppe för att nämna några.
Följ Microdisko på Facebook, Twitter och Identi.ca för att hålla koll på nästa fest.
Hello API!
Report on the first evening with the Software Study Group, a Forskningsavdelningen interest group that began its activities 2011-04-05.
Reports like this one may be more or less common, we shall see.
Participants: olleolleolle, qzio, kaffekopp, phrst, wesik, jonasb. Anyone I forgot?
Things covered
- Open Data, Why
- Scraping human-readable web pages to structure information for machines, using Python, lxml, and Scraperwiki
- Using Scraperwiki’s API to fetch the now-structured data. See example
- Guided tour of Peter Rukavina‘s data visualizations of the wind energy creation on Prince Edward Island, Canada
- Using PHP, Joel built a microframework and a tool to query data from services (“I will Open Source it, when I’ve written the README.”)
- Comparison to Yahoo! Query Language, and its related tooling
- Study of the existing opened-but-API-less data sources at opengov.se
When the lightning tour of the tools available was over, we discussed the Data That Matters angle, that is, finding something that can change our local world. Data advocates inside government are key, according to Dutch Open Data expert Ton Zylstra.
Results
To see a working sample of the evening’s results, please visit this example page.
What’s next?
In upcoming meetings, we will look further into web development and aspects of Open Data. This is a beginner-friendly eye-opener excursion into web technology, not a competition. Even if you never hacked on Web stuff before, you can join. Bring a willingness to learn and teach yourself, and help will be provided.
Hi there folks!
There has been alot of things going on lately, mainly moving. Our main research focus at the moment is the movement. Movement of our space that is. Since we feel that status is one of the greatest achievements amongst men our last move was to move our space to August Palms plats 1, to where we were invited by the kind and generous Malmoe city political and economical elite.
Since this fine opportunity was given to us, we decided to shake our grudges of the past. There are no longer any hard feelings over the trivialities that led to us losing our first space and alot of our equipment – everything is forgotten and forgiven.
We have also been offered a generous number of filing cabinets as a substitute for the keygrinders and other equipment that was taken from us. This is of course totally awesome! We really need to start archiving our research findings and resource (read: internet, equipment) useage statistics, now that we have realized that the trend has come to stay – ISP’s and government agencies are into the technically fascinating areas of both stateful filters and archives.
Since our new home is governmental, from now on there will be a dress code. For those who cannot afford a proper suit, work-attire requests can be filed at the front desk and you will receive the standard issue attire within two weeks.
Also note that we are now part of http://www.malmo.se/fou, so we will keep our previous abbreviation FoU – but want to point out that it is no longer in any way related to “Forskningsavd. of Utkanten”.
You are welcome to apply for documents regarding papers and forms to fill in in order to be part of our weekly four hour tuesday meetings (with one or two five minute coffee breaks). Since we are new to this method of operation, one hour of each tuesday meeting will, for the time being, be loosely dedicated to talking about and studying the bureaucracy and hierarchy of the new organisation. Note that the meetings are sometimes longer as we have to follow protocol.
We got moved by the system <3 / Kindly The Research Dept. of Malmoe City
