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This monday I paid a visit to the new FabLab on our very own campus at the University College of Ghent.

The FabLab offers a space where students can produce their own designs or just print stuff downloaded from thingiverse. The place is still in a build-up phase but have a look at all the good(ness/ies) it has already.

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RepMan

Funky Fan

Mr. MakerBot aka Cupcake

Not entirely sure but my guess is the Cupcake was gutted from it’s electronics to be used to power the lasercut Mendel below.

The lasercut mendel is a thesis project by Frederic Decru aka the Lasercut-Mendel-Guy. He can be seen in this video and the model can be obtained from thingiverse by going here

Lasercut Mendel

Lasercut Mendel looking all Acrylicalicaly'ish

Lasercut Mendel's good side

I hope to get me a lasercut mendel somewhere in the near future.

Batist and a printed Mendel

Batist started the FabLab and is seen constructing a printed version of the Mendel RepRap.

I hope to, someday soon, reserve a slot on one of the 3D printers in the FabLab and print the case I’m designing for my IGEPv2 board.

A month ago I received my IGEPv2 platform from  ISEE

It’s a beagleboard clone with the exception that this version comes packed with a RJ45 10/100Mb ethernet connection, bluetooth and  802.11b/g wifi. Oh and the price is about the same as a beagleboard (it’s actually cheaper then a BB when you opt for the non-wifi version).

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A month has passed since the official opening of Whitespace aka 0×20 in Ghent… and all I can say: it’s been awesome!

openwrt talk @ opening weekend

Note : a whitespace is the 32nd Unicode character, 32 in hex is 0×20

The space keeps growing each week, well not physically, but member- and hardware-wise.

router flashing @ opening weekend

donated oscilloscope

Whitespace now has it’s own blog showing progress on projects and cool stuff happening in the space.

Meetings take place every thursday from 19h30-0h00, please feel welcome to drop by, it’s free .

The space is located @ Blekerijstraat 75, room 1.21, 9000 Gent, België

This clip shows how to get to room 1.21 once you’re in front of the gate :

What you do next:

- Get on the mailing list

- Follow the twitter bird

- Join the IRC channel : #0×20 on irc.freenode.org

- Read the blog : http://0×20.posterous.blog

- Read the wiki :  http://0×20.be/

Since a couple of weeks Ghent has it’s first hackerspace named Whitespace (after the street it’s located : Blekerijstraat).

Whitespace is driven partly by a bunch of people who started/helped growing, hackerspace Brussels but live in Ghent and wanted to skip the commute. The other part are  new enthousiastic locals (like me) who are commited to build something great.

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Possibly the coolest thing you’ll see today : the pressure waves of the Atlas V rocket as it goes super sonic.

Ripped shameless from BoingBoing

Alexis Malbert aka Tapetronic does all flavors of awesome on a bunch of tapedecks and cassettes he hacked.

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This blog has been online for little over a month and I can only witness it picking up momentum.

Page views have been doubling week by week and I’m receiving nice feedback and comments from visitors all over the globe.

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In this tutorial I’ll show how to install IDLE for Python 2.6 on Ubuntu 9.10

This tutorial couldn’t be much easier, as a matter of fact you should be ashamed of yourself for even reading this! I’m just kidding, follow the next couple of steps and you’ll be wrestling the mighty python in a matter of minutes.

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An arduino, a DB18S20 one-wire temperature sensor and an LDR (Light Dependent Resistor) are hooked up with some resistors and an ethernet shield to make a datalogger and webmonitor.

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Since today was a holiday (here in Belgium) I had a few moments to spare so I wrote a quick and dirty version of pong for the arduino using the S65 shield.

Check the video after the break…

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