New at Hive76: Top Secret Rosies, Intro to Reverse Engineering, Microcontrollers

[Christopher Thompson]

The Women of ENIAC: “Top Secret Rosies”

On Wednesday, August 18 at 7pm, Hive76 and the Rotunda are teaming up to bring an illustrated lecture and movie teaser called “Hidden Her-story, the Top Secret Rosies of WWII”. 

Wed Aug 18, 2010, 7pm
The Rotunda, 4014 Walnut St, Phila

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Intro to Reversing

Hive76 is hosting an Intro to Reverse Engineering class on August 28th. Reverse Engineering is the art and science of taking a program apart, and understanding how it works. Reverse Engineering a program may seem like a bit of black magic, but it’s not. All of the instructions for a program are right there on your hard drive, and with some tools and tricks, you can figure out what the program’s doing and how it works.

Aug 28th 11AM to 5PM

General Admission Tickets: $75 (suggested donation)

Hive76 Members and Students Tickets: $55 (suggested donation)

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Intro to Microcontrollers

Creating Simple Embedded Systems with TI MSP430 MCUs 

Need a timer?, a comparator?, a flip-flop?, a shift register?, a "you name it"?  In most cases, an MCU can replace several parts with a little programming, and do it cheaper, simpler, more reliably than a purpose-built circuit.  As a bonus, they are cheap, flexible and they use very little power. 

MCUs also offer one of the most practical ways add a high degree of interactivity to your projects.  Since programs can make decisions, and since MCUs are programmable, it means that your circuit can have a program that makes it do interesting things.  A simple example might be a button that does something the first time that you push it and something slightly different the second time you push it. 

Starting Aug 29th for 5 weeks

General Admission Tickets: $100 + supplies

Discounts for Hive76 Members and Students

Watch Hive76.org for a detailed blog post about this class.

Updates

Our bike odometer project at Neighborhood Bike Works will have taught over 100 kids how to make a simple electronics project when summer camp ends soon. That means 100 new makers out there changing the world to meet their needs! 

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Hive76 members had a great weekend at The Next HOPE in NYC recently. Greetings to all those hackers we met.

Did you know we have a Flickr pool? I didn't. 

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