Monday, October 5, 2009

Noisebridge hacker space

I stumbled upon this awesome geek community called Noisebridge. It's a hacking den and a work space spawning lots of interesting projects belonging to various fields of technology and science.
NoisebridgeNoisebridge takes inspiration from famous European hacking spaces like Metalab, CBase, MAMA and ASCII and shares its DNA with many of the other hack clubs around the world pin pointed by Hackerspaces.
Noisebridge is an educational non-profit corporation, 501(c)3 public charity status. We provide infrastructure and collaboration opportunities for people interested in programming, hardware hacking, physics, chemistry, mathematics, photography, security, robotics, all kinds of art, and, of course, technology. Through talks, workshops, and projects we encourage knowledge exchange, learning, and mentoring.
At Noisebridge they have someting for every geek's taste. You like playing video games, you want to learn a programming in Python, the chinese language,how to hack locks and to speak to deaf people, and so on...
One thing that struck me was Sensebridge which is the group dedicated to cyborg group. Their motto is "If you can't beat the robot armies, join them." and they work on projects to enhance human senses or feeding sensitive information which shouldn't be accessibly to human biology. Among their projects there's a compass vibro-anklet, a Ultrasonic Hearing / Echolocation, a Technicolor Dreamcoat and more.
Here's the list of  senses humans don't possess and could be implement in cybernetics projects.
* Magnetism, magnetic north
* Electric Fields, voltage & amperage (of which we are not a part)
* Echolocation/Radar
* Accurate absolute range finding
* Ultraviolet/Infrared
* Spectroscopy
* Inaudible Sounds
* Radiation Level
* "Tremorsense" (or telling the location of movement through vibrations in the ground)
* GPS location
* Non-accelerating motion
* Accurate angle detection
Enlist today for the Cylon converter project! :P

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