On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 6:29 AM, Marc Farnum Rendino <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm from Hinesburg too, so I'd like to see something there as well. :)
Me three! > Suggestion: Let's think of this as a meta-incubator with the express > purpose of creating several local groups. The local groups may indeed > come and go as interest/projects change, and that too may be part of > the way this is built; the more dynamic the better, especially if > there's a stable core. I don't actually think the economics of a dedicated hacker-space would work... a friend of mine seriously looked at putting together something like this in Montpelier, and he would have to have at least 6 regular 'tenants' at their desks and paying a small fee (couple hundred a month) before it would start to be worth the rent. Once you have a core like this though... all sorts of casual meetings could happen. Would I would love to see is a monthly get-together / pot luck at someone's house for a few hours on a weekend... Maybe automate their vegetable garden weeding with some arduino-powered robots. Or put some temperature, flood water, and wine-level sensors in a wine cellar! ;) A little more expensive than the arduino but wireless is Synapse: http://dkc1.digikey.com/us/en/ph/Synapse/EK2100.html The creators program it with 100% python, and gave a fantastic talk at PyCon: http://us.pycon.org/2009/conference/schedule/event/73/ In my mind, what we need is some good planning so when we get together on a weekend, we have all the plans and parts and people together to do some cool stuff. -Jim
