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Hackmeetup is dead, long live Forskningsavdelningen

Since last time I wrote anything here, Hackmeetup has both died and been reborn as something new. On the 25th of August, we got access to our very own little space in the house called Utkanten. Since then, we’ve been cleaning it up to make it usable for our purposes. In this process, Hackmeetup has also transformed into something slightly bigger and different. Instead of being a few geeks sitting in a meeting room and experimenting with software, it’s now going to be slightly more geeks in their own space experimenting with electronics, food and anything else we can think of that sounds like fun. It has also changed name to Forskningsavdelningen (the Research Department.)

There’s still a lot of work to be done in terms of setting the place up, but we just couldn’t wait any longer, so yesterday we started on the first project. This project is to build some kind of radio controlled sound system. The exact details of what it should become seem to be changing slightly as we progress, but that’s part of the fun.

The other part that I’ve always found to be fun (just ask my mother) is to take electronic equipment apart and seeing what it looks like on the inside. Yesterday was most satisfying, as we busted open a whole heap of speakers and then also disassembled my old DVD-player/stereo. The twist this time is that we’ll actually be putting it together again, and hopefully into something that actually works.

Other fun activities included burning up a volume control from one of the active speakers while testing if we could connect it again and playing blip blop music (of course including the Bubble Bobble theme tune) on a pre-existing home built sound system and a toy synth.