Category: Workshop

Let’s get together for a Halloween party/pot luck! Every one is invited! This will be a kid friendly event complete with a craft and some pumpkin carving for the kiddies! There will also be prizes for a costume contest! Please share what you would like to bring to the pot luck here. When: October 24th…

Starting Monday, October 19th the Electronics Fundamentals class will begin! The class will kick off around 7pm and run until about 9pm. The first class will be all theory but it will be the foundation for every other class to follow. We’ll be covering things like what electricity is, what an electron is, units such…

Always wanted to feel more comfortable with Linux? Our resident Linux expert, Matthew, is presenting the first session of a basic Linux class, based on a commercial “Linux System Administrator I” class, with permission from the vendor of the class. Sunday from 7:00 – 8:30 PM RSVP here: http://www.meetup.com/Unallocated-Space/events/225778745/ The topics of the course start…

Tonight at 7pm we will cover power factor. I will also have a bad circuit board for everyone to take a look at and discuss what the issues with it are. Fun trouble shooting! Time permitting, we will also have some labs.

It’s that time once again to roll up our sleeves and give the space some TLC. Here’s the deal: June 6th, 10am, we’ll be hitting the following things: Wiping down tables. Cleaning floors. Cleaning fridge/microwave as needed. Cleaning bathrooms. Tidying work areas and storage area. The storage/networking area has gotten disorganized. Things need to be…

Want to hack wifi, but afraid you’ll explode a nuclear cooling tower? Come to Unallocated Space March 22nd @ 4pm for a Wifi Hacking class and practice session Amaze your friends by being able to discover access points that don’t broadcast. Shock your pets by cracking WEP encryption. Annoy your mother by bruteforcing WPS combinations…

Come out and show the space some love this SUNDAY!! <3 From 10am until 4pm, we’ll be cleaning, processing incoming donations and outgoing items. This will set us up to have a good set of items for the TechSwap at the end of the month. We need YOUR help! Tasks Include (in no particular order):…

There’s a tone of movies that we are dying to share with you. Everything from: Big Trouble in Little China (1986) The Fifth Element (1997) Labyrinth (1986) Gremlins (1984) *batteries not included (1987) Ghostbusters (1984) FernGully: The Last Rainforest (1992) Uncle Buck (1989) The Wizard (1989) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the…

We will continue work on the spectrum analyzer project. This class will focus on testing the uart_comms module (handles the serial protocol) and using it to control the frequency of a sine wave. This code will be used in the final code as a way of ensuring things are working properly. The next step will…

Over time, I’ve heard many people ask various questions about Network Security Monitoring (NSM)…. there seems to be a few people that work NSM and a few that are curious… What I expect to cover: What is Network Security Monitoring (NSM)? What tools are available? What do they give you and how to use them…

This is going to be the first of two classes for creating the VHDL module that will allow changes to be made on the fly via a USB to serial adapter. We created a framing protocol for sending data last class. We will start this one by implementing that framing protocol. There will also be…

As of this month, Unallocated Space has occupied our current building due to your generosity. We want to celebrate 4 years of great times and cool hacks by hosting a potluck party on October 25th starting at 2pm. Please mention what your going to bring at: http://www.perfectpotluck.com/meals.php?t=GYTO5348&v=c0aa515b83 Tentative Schedule 2:00pm-4:00pm Pumpkin Hacking 4:00pm-5:30pm Arcade Game…

Last week we created a test bench to make sure the new buffered serial RX module was working properly. This time we will be doing the same thing to the TX side. Creating the buffered serial TX will be mostly on your own work. Then we will work together to get the test bench up…

Since a lot of people were out last week, I’ll be covering this class again. We finished creating the new FIFO backed RX module. This class we will spend a lot of time playing around in the simulator. We will be creating procedures to send test data as well as read data from the FIFO.…