Instructables Build Night with Spark!

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Hey everybody - we are super excited to be partnering with Instructables on their November Build Night. This means that all over the world there are going to be nights dedicated to hacking with Spark (yay!)

Instructables has sent us a list of the participating hackerspaces and we wanted to share the names of spots here in case any of you are nearby. I don’t have individual dates for each location but can try to update here as I find out.

If you are participating please be sure to share projects and let us know how everything goes! You also heard it here first: this may not be the only collaboration we have planned with Instructables this fall :wink:

ARGENTINA
Buenos Aires - Wazzabi www.wazzabi.org

BELGIUM -
Borsbeek, Belgium - Open Garage http://opengarage.org

CANADA
Vancouver (BC) - Vancouver Hack Space http://vancouver.hackspace.ca/
Whitehorse (Yukon) - YuKonstruct http://yukonstruct.com/

EGYPT
Cairo, Egypt - Cairo Hackerspace www.cairohackerspace.com (Nov 21)

GERMANY
Aachen - FabLab Aachen fablab.rwth-aachen.de (Nov 19) Sign up / info

HUNGARY
Budapest - Hackerspace Budapest http://hsbp.org/

INDIA
Bangalore - RevAmp http://reva.edu.in/
Chennai - Makerspace Chennai makerspacechennai.in

NETHERLANDS
Breda, Netherlands - FabLab Breda www.fablabbreda.nl

NORWAY
Bergan, Norway - HackBergen hackbergen.no

SOUTH AFRICA
Port Elizabeth, South Africa - NMMU Mechatronics http://www.nmmu.ac.za/

UNITED KINGDOM
Southampton, UK - SoMakeIt http://www.somakeit.org.uk (Nov 23)
Newcastle upon Tyne, UK - Maker Space (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK) http://www.makerspace.org.uk/
Swansea, UK - Swansea Hackspace http://swansea.hackspace.org.uk

UNITED STATES
Arizona - TechShop Chandler http://techshop.ws/ts_chandler.html
California (LA) - crashspace http://blog.crashspace.org/
Florida (Tampa) -Tampa Hackerspace http://tampahackerspace.com
Georgia (Lawrenceville) - Geekspace Gwinnett www.geekspacegwinnett.org
Indiana (Bloomington) - BloomingLabs http://bloominglabs.org (Nov 13, Nov 15)
Kansas (Wichita) - MakeICT http://makeict.org/
Kansas (Kansas City) - KCOHG http://kcohg.org/
Missouri (Kansas City) - The Maker Studio at Science City http://www.unionstation.org/sciencecity/attractions/maker-studio
New Jersey - SoHa SMART http://sohasmart.com/
Ohio (Louisville) Louisville Public Library www.louisvillelibrary.org
Pennsylvania (Philadelphia) - NextFab nextfab.com
Texas (Austin) - TechShop Austin-Round Rock http://techshop.ws/austin_round_rock.html
Texas (El Paso) - Fab Lab El Paso http://fablabelpaso.org
Wisconsin - Milwaukee Makerspace http://milwaukeemakerspace.org/

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We’re very excited to be a part of this! (I’m from Bloominglabs in Bloomington, IN).

Our nights are going to be:

Thu, Nov 13, 7pm-???
Sat, Nov 15, 7pm-???

Quick question, the ‘Internet Button’ shield is pretty awesome, but I was having a hard time finding documentation for it. Is there a resource you can point me to? I’m trying to learn as much about this as I can before the build nights so as to be helpful as possible to participants (having a lot of fun with it so far).

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Hey @SteveC awesome that Bloominglabs is joining build night! We don’t have much documentation on the button just yet since we actually haven’t officially announced it - you’re getting an early preview! That said, we’ll have firmware and docs ready to go by build night time so we’ll keep you posted :slight_smile:

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Perfect, thanks! I figured it was an exclusive kind of deal since it wasn’t listed yet. Will be fun to give it a whirl.

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Egypt Build Night.

Cairo Hackerspace is making the first Internet of Things training in Egypt using Spark.io stuff.

20 NOV an awareness session about IoT
21 NOV Practical IoT training for the attendees and at the end people will build/hack and make their ideas “The Build Night”.

Thanks

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This is great - thanks for sharing @tou2!

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Went to the build night in Aachen, Germany yesterday together with @moors7. Was awesome! :smile:
Tried to build a clock using the internet button shield which worked in the beginning, but somehow failed to retrieve time on the end of the evening, looking into that now. Will publish my little project asap :smile:

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