Rochester 2600

This Sunday Jerel and Matt gave me a tour of the Buffalo Hackerspace. They’ve got an awesome location and these pictures don’t do it justice. Some of things that really caught my attention:

• hand built two factor authentication system for 24×7 access using an old Fujitsu laptop
• tons of donated servers, monitors, hardware
• Ghosts and Goblins old school arcade game
• drive up access to the space on the 4th floor
• soon to be finished conference room
• pool table, color printer, couches, quiet area, workshop

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This week will be the first meeting of a group of people interested in a Rochester hackerspace. Hackerspaces are very open to interpretation – hardware guys are interested in the tool shed idea where resources are pooled to purchase fun equipment to make things, security guys like to test new software, business professionals are interested in a dedicated place to work on their projects away from the distractions at home, and some people are just interested in the social idea of having a dedicated place where like minded people can hang out.

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[UPDATE: Little too excited. RSS is in 2 weeks. Thanks CJP]
It’s only a few weeks away from the Rochester Security Summit. If you’ve been to the summit other years, this isn’t your father’s Rochester Security Summit. This year includes an all-star group of speakers including Rob Fuller from Hak5, Larry Pesce from PaulDotCom, Bruce Potter from Shmoocon, Ed Skodis from In-Guardians, and many more.

Register today!!

This weekend was the first ever con of the South Ontario hacker spaces called MiniSoOnCon. Members of Diyode, HackLab.TO, KwartzLab all met up at the new hackerspace, Think|Haus in Hamilton, Ontario.

This was the first time Think|Haus was open to the public since they leased  the space just a few months ago. The whole event was amazing. Just some of the highlights:

• The badges had an Arduino in them to do cool stuff
• Leigh from Hacklab.To put together a MakerBot that can fabricate 3 dimensional items
• James gave a great presentation about hacking for kids
• Radio frequency presentation about trunking technologies and what’s legal and illegal about listening in on police, fire, and emergency frequencies
• The people and the conversations going on were unlike any other con I’ve been to.
  

The event finished and a lot of us took the trip to Toronto to hang out at HackLab.TO and attend Nuit Blanche

These guys will be back next year and I look forward to what they can do with more than two months notice!