I’m excited to announce our first sewing workshop next week Wednesday at 6pm.

Want to hack fiber? Knitting is easier than most people think. It’s just another type of code. You start with a foundation (a cast on) and build upon it with just two types of stitches: knits and purls. To change an object’s shape, you use increasing and decreasing when needed, making rows shorter or longer. It looks complicated, but it isn’t once you understand the basics. Patterns and charts tell you what to do in each row and at each stitch. All you need is a little bit of dexterity and the ability to count – and a set of sticks and string.

I’ll discuss a very brief history of knitting and some of the cool things happening with it today, and then teach the very basics (casting on and the knit stitch), with the intention of knitting a square or rectangle (a dishcloth, or if folded over and seamed, a phone cozy or pocket or some sort – a lot of possibilities from a simple shape!). Supplies will be purchased for those who RSVP by Monday, but please bring $6 in cash.

RSVP on EventBrite: http://hicap-sewing.eventbrite.com/

When: Wednesday, October 24th @ 6pm

Where: HI Capacity - 307a Kamani Street, Honolulu, HI (map)

Aloha! We’re going to hold a beginner’s workshop on the Arduino on Wednesday, October 3rd at 7PM. It’ll be at the HI Capacity space and free and open to the public! No membership required!

This will be a beginner’s workshop on the Arduino Microcontroller. An Arduino is a small computer designed to help bring electronics to a wide variety of projects and a greater audience. The Arduino is made to be easy to use and easy to learn.

We will introduce basic electronics concepts and get you to start working on your Arduino immediately!

There will be several Arduinos at the space for you to use if you don’t own one. All you’ll be required to bring is a laptop! You can buy a new Arduino starter kit at Sparkfun.com or Adafruit.com. Unfortunately, at this time, we don’t have any Arduinos for sale at the space.

Please sign up here: http://arduino101-hicapacity.eventbrite.com/

When: Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Where: HI Capacity - 307a Kamani Street, Honolulu, HI (map)

Rob will present his approach to treating Infrastructure as Code, in which he will speak about deploying complex services to the cloud using Ruby and Chef.

Rob Berger is a founder and the CTO of Runa Inc., an early stage start-up developing a Software as a Service for online merchants. Runa increases conversion of shoppers while on the merchant’s site using real-time, individualized promotions.

At Runa, Rob is leading an agile development effort that is pushing the state-of-the-art in personalization, service scaling, statistical / semantic processing and ajax technologies. Their system architecture includes the use of HBase/Hadoop, Clojure, Swarmiji, AMQP/RabbitMQ, Redis and Opscode Chef.

Rob is also the President and Founder of Internet Bandwidth Development, a consultancy focusing on providing technology consulting specializing in backbone networks, access networks, wireless networks, and innovative Internet/Web applications and services. IBD has provided services to technology start-ups, top names in Internet hardware and software, as well as venture capital firms, including Panorama Capital, SkyPilot Networks, VISA, Cisco, Ascend, iPass, and Oki Networks.

RSVP: http://www.meetup.com/dynamic/events/81091042/

Tuesday, October 2, 2012 @ 7:00 PM

The Box Jelly - 307a Kamani Street (map)