Here it is, in its full, finished glory. Nice!

State of the Space, May 6 2012.

Stereographic View of AHA

Weekly Recurring Activities
Sundays | 3pm to 5pm | Knitting Workshop
Sundays | 5pm to 7pm | CodeAcademy.com Workshop (Learn Javascript!) 
Tuesdays | 6:30pm to 8pm | Professional Software Developer Meetup
Thursdays | 7:30pm to 1am | Build Nights (Bring a project, or come watch/help/learn!)

Monthly Recurring Saturday Activities
First Saturday | 2pm to 4pm | Introduction to 3D Printing
Second Saturday | 2pm to 4pm | Introduction to Arduino
Third Saturday | 2pm to 4pm| Introduction to Soldering
Fourth Saturday | 12pm to 2pm | Intro to CNC Routing
Fourth Saturday | 2pm to 4pm | Introduction to Laser Cutting

One Time Only Activities!
Friday, 5/11 | 10pm to 3am |  Diablo II Ironman
Saturday, 5/12 | 1pm to 5pm | Scratch Lab @ AADL
Friday, 5/18 | 10pm to 3am | Diablo III Ironman
Saturday,  5/19 | 11am to 4pm | Scratch Contest @ AADL
Sunday, 5/20 | 2pm to 10pm | League of Legends Tournament
Sunday, 5/27 | 6pm to 7pm | Regular Expressions Workshop
Saturday, 6/02 | 10am to 5pm | Ann Arbor Mini Maker Faire!

Food is a pretty cool thing, especially when you share it with a bunch of cool people. Last Thursday we had an awesome potluck at AHA, and coincidentally it was the birthday of two of our regulars! We had cake and fudge and stuff like that, good times all around.

We also had Leo bring in a steampunk rifle. A couple guys came in to fix up their Xbox and Nate added Arduino Powered LED Lighting for Dr. Keytaro.

More updates will come soon, but in the meantime, check out the event page! We always have cool stuff happening down here, and we always love to see new faces come down to check out the space.

Landan’s been shaping up this duo of wooden longswords and I must say, they’re pretty intimidating. They look like real steel from a distance and they’re huge.

Kimberley was pulling up references pulling some references for Wilt from Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends during the knitting rumble. I didn’t get to find out what was going on before I left, but I can imagine that it’s gonna turn out super-duper awesome.

We also had a massive StarCraft II tournament today and Josh surprised our contestants with some outrageously sick laser-cut custom emblems. Some of the players even came in back to look around the workshop. Good times.

So, yeah. This was a very nice weekend, and there’s a lot of magic happening down here. Remember, if you want to get in on some of these crazy things, all you have to do is drop in!

Photo by the Detroit News.

Last Saturday we broke out the Scanmera at the Steampunk Twisted Toys event over at District VII. Much brass art was had, and many pictures we had as well. The Scanmera is a progressively scanning camera, which just means it takes a picture from left to right very slowly. The end result comes out looking like this:

This being Roger of i3 Detroit. He moved his hand during the scanning process, so it wasn’t captured in the end result.

Update:
Arduino Lab @ AADL is going on TODAY!
Soldering Class @ AHA is postponed!

The voice of reason is telling me to go to bed, but NOT before I post this.

1) Free Arduino Lab at the AADL this Saturday from 1:00pm to 4:00pm. Limited seating, arrive early!

2) Build nights every Thursday! Now featuring routing with a Drill Press, Jewelry Making, Security Bits and more!