Monthly Archives: May 2011

Detroit Battle of the Bits VII

By Brandon | Published: May 25, 2011

OmniCorpDetroit and battleofthebits.org present: Detroit Battle of the Bits VII 25 sounds 48 hours Calling all Detroit music producers, beatmakers and DJs, the 7th annual Detroit battle of the bits re-mix competition is on! The battle consists of taking 25 sound samples and re-mixing them in anyway during a 48 hour time period. OmniCorpDetroit will [...]

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Making Noise @ MakerFaire SF 2011

By Andrew | Published: May 23, 2011

A bunch of OmniCorpDetroit-ers were able to make it out to the San Francisco Maker Faire this year. After making THOUSANDS of LED throwies with kids on Friday and Saturday we decided to go a slightly more “noisy” route on Sunday. A huge thanks to the folks from MAKE Magazine for letting us go nuts [...]

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Making Hydrogen

By Nina B. | Published: May 8, 2011

… with Anderson Walworth. Hydrogen Making at OCD / no electrolytes from Nina Bianchi on Vimeo. More Hydrogen Making at OCD / with electrolytes from Nina Bianchi on Vimeo.

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This Sucks – Zine Making Workshop

By Nina B. | Published: May 7, 2011

Thanks to everyone who came out to ‘This Sucks … 5 Easy Steps to Suck-less … and I’m going to do something about it’ Zine Making Workshop! We now have awesome new publications to share like … Perceived Value in Consumer Culture … and Power Patterns … and Adlines Defense … and Need Sleep, House [...]

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GREAT GLOBAL HACKERSPACE CHALLENGE

By admin | Published: May 4, 2011

5.3.2011 THE FINISHED PRODUCT OF THE LASER TAG SHIELD Abstract: OMNICORPDETROIT has completed its Lasertag shield for Arduino as part of the Great Global Hackerspace Challenge. We’ve taken this challenge and taken into consideration our specific location in the heart of the city of Detroit and how learning to create with a microprocessor and a [...]

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Recap of the Laser Tag workshop held at MEM

By Joshua Slominski | Published: May 4, 2011

Check out a recap of the laser tag workshop.  Thanks to our awesome intern, Ally, for shooting and editing the video

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Hehe, we’ll explain tomorrow.

By admin | Published: May 4, 2011

LT_IR LT_SOUNDS Lasertag Source Code if anything though, check out our progress on www.element14.com and search for OMNICORPDETROIT!!

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Uber Hack!!!

By tsliwinski | Published: May 3, 2011

Uber hack turned into an amazing event! Thank you to all who came out to learn how to solder, about fruit batteries and take a tour of OCD. Below are some words from our good friends at the Mt. Elliott Makerspace who helped teach the workshops. This past weekend we cancelled our Tron Bikes workshop [...]

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