HI Capacity

OUDL ~ Probabilistic Data Structures Are OZMM

Kyle Oba — Thu, 09 May 2013 23:50:00 -1000

Shu Chen (local genius wunderkind) will discuss the reasoning and implementation of two useful data structures (bloom filter and flower filter), both useful to big data applications, optimization, and impressing your colleagues.

Read up on bloom filters via Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom_filter

When: Thursday, May 16, 2013 @ 6pm to 8pm

Where: Manoa Innovation Center ~ 2800 Woodlawn Drive, Honolulu, HI

Industry Practices on UI + UX

Kathryne Sakata and Tiffany Higa — Thu, 09 May 2013 22:40:00 -1000

This talk is to inform others of the necessary steps in creating a website and understanding the importance of UI (User Interface) + UX (User Experience) design. These steps may seem tedious, but as you dive into the design or even the development stage, you’ll quickly find out that this process will help to diminish problems that could occur down the road.

When: Wed, May 15, 2013 @7pm to 8pm

Where: HI Capacity (in the Box Jelly), 307a Kamani Street Honolulu, 96813. (Please park on Ward Ave, Kamani street, or surrounding street parking).

Kathryne Sakata

Kat received her graphic design degree from the New Media Arts Interface Design Program at Kapiolani Community College. She is currently a Graphic Designer and Web Developer at Design Asylum, Inc. and the Lead UI Designer at Undefeated Games, Inc. Kat enjoys engaging with new people and sharing her enthusiasm for design. She is an active member of AIGA Honolulu, HI-Capacity...

Command Line Basics

Jason Axelson — Thu, 02 May 2013 21:15:00 -1000

Are you scared of the command line? Then this talk is for you. The goal of the talk is to teach the absolute basics of the command line. How to use it, get around, and manage files. There will also be tips to make the most out of your time on the command line. The idea is to become familiar with the command line to make good use of programs that require/benefit from it such as git.

The speaker for this talk is Jason Axelson; a local software developer locally that loves to work on the command line and uses Linux for his day-to-day work when possible. If this talk goes well there will be intermediate and advanced command line talks.

The talk will be on Wednesday May 8th, at 7:00pm at HI Capacity (inside The Box Jelly). Address is 307a Kamani st, Honolulu 96813. This talk is open to the public.

When: Wednesday, May 8, 2013 @ 7pm to 8:30pm

Where: HI Capacity (in the Box Jelly), 307a Kamani Street Honolulu, 96813. (Please park on Ward Ave, Kamani street, or surrounding street parking).

Cell Phone Robot Workshop

Matthew Badeau — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 22:00:00 -1000

Good evening! Tim Heath, one of our super smart HI Capacity members, is volunteering to host a workshop to create a cell phone controlled robot! It’s pretty amazing.

Tim writes: “Learn how to turn your cellphone into an inexpensive robot that you can control anywhere in the world using the MyRobot platform! If you want to actually create your own robot using a cellphone you can either buy a kit at the workshop or bring your own parts. At the least you will need a phone with serial output, a microprocessor (Arduino) to accept DTFM or serial input, serial break out board for your phone (if not using DTFM), two motors/servos for one castor wheel for motion etc… You will also learn how to create a robot chassis using blender and a RepRap machine. Email Tim at wgheath@gmail.com if you have any questions.”

HI Capacity has a printrbot 3D printer for members to use to print the chassis, if needed.

When: Wednesday, April 17, 2013 @ 6:30pm

Where: HI Capacity (in the Box Jelly), 307a Kamani Street Honolulu, 96813. (Please park on Ward Ave, Kamani street, or surrounding street parking).

Talking Story with a Maker

Marion Ano — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 20:30:00 -1000

Image courtesy of marin / FreeDigitalPhotos.net

We recently had a chance to sit down with HICap community board member, Alan Solidum and talk to him about his experience as a Top Finalist in Campbells API competition, Hack The Kitchen.

HC. Hey Alan… How was NYC?

AS. Amazing! I had a great time… Plus I got to finally meet one of the original cofounders of HICap, Ryan Kanno who moved to NYC to work for a finance company. I also went to DC and hung out with HICap ex-president, Austen Ito who was accepted in Hungry Academy last year and now works at Living Social.

HC. How are they doing?

AS. Awesome… They participated in Startup Bus and also got the Mashery Best Use of API Award in API Hack Day NY… But they were more interested in hearing what’s going on with HICap and where we’re headed.

HC. Where is HICap headed?

AS. Oh that would be a long discussion but let’s just say a lot of exciting stuff is coming up…. including Arduinos, Raspberry...

Startup Weekend Honolulu

Alan Solidum — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 20:30:00 -1000

We are happy to announce in cooperation with Honolulu Startup Weekend (see below for more details), HICapacity members will receive $50 off entry fees. If you’ve been interested in participating in Startup Weekend, right now would be a perfect time to do so.

To use your exclusive HICapacity discount, register at http://www.eventbrite.com/event/4738325459 and enter HICAP in the promotional code.

If you have any other questions, please email maker@hicapacity.org with the subject line “Honolulu Startup Weekend”.

More About Startup Weekend:

Startup Weekends are 54-hour events designed to provide superior experiential education for technical and non-technical entrepreneurs. Beginning with Friday night pitches and continuing through brainstorming, business plan development, and basic prototype creation, Startup Weekends culminate in Sunday night demos and presentations. Participants create working startups during the event and are able to collaborate with like-minded individuals outside of their daily networks. All teams hear talks by industry leaders and receive valuable feedback from local entrepreneurials. The weekend is centered around action, innovation, and education. Whether you are looking for feedback on a idea, a co-founder, specific skill sets, or a team to help...

Javascript for Hackers

Kyle Oba — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 19:30:00 -1000

James Wang will be giving us an update on how he’s using Javascript to build web applications. He’ll also talk a bit about the language in general and what makes it tick. Topics to include:

DOM Manipulation
The Good Parts
Popular Uses
Example code

Did you know that Javascript has good parts and bad parts? Find out how to use the good parts and ignore everything else. Javascript is in a renaissance. Find out how to take part.

Demos: JQuery, Underscore, Angular.js, Node.js

Goals for this talk:

Educate the tech community about Javascript framework choices (browser).
Using the language effectively and avoiding the bad parts.
Node.js performance and relevance.

When: Thursday, March 14, 2013 @ 7pm to 9pm

Where: HI Capacity (in the Box Jelly), 307a Kamani Street Honolulu, 96813. (Please park on Ward Ave, Kamani street, or surrounding street parking).

Monty Python

Bob Matcuk — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 20:50:00 -1000

Message for you, sir!

Aloha you silly English Knnnnnnig-hts and sons of a silly person!

The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite held aloft Monty Python and the Holy Grail from the bosom of the water, signifying by divine providence that we, HI Capacity, were to watch it on Sunday, March 10th at noon.

The Knights of Ni demand it! In addition to shrubberies and snacks. Some that taste good. And not too expensive.

So come, see the violence inherent in the system! You may even be turned into a newt!… But it’ll get better.

We shall use our finest projector!

P.S. If you should see a small white rabbit, do not approach it or make any sudden movements. Slowly back away and inform the nearest aaauuuggghhh…

Groovy & Clojure - Dynamic Languages for Java Programmers

Kyle Oba — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 20:50:00 -1000

Here’s something exciting and new for you Java programmers out there.

We’re presenting back-to-back introductory talks on Groovy and Clojure, a couple of exciting, dynamic JVM languages. That’s right, you can see what all this Dynamic Language Hype™ is all about, and never have to leave the comfort of the Java Virtual Machine (JVM).

Main Goals:

Provide a brief look into two great options for dynamic programming on the JVM
Show how to get started with Groovy and/or Clojure
Discuss the pros/cons of each

David Beutel, of UH, will adapt his well-practiced intro to Groovy talk to our OUDL format. Some guy named, “Kyle” will give the Clojure bits.

This is a great talk for all those JVM-aholics out there that want to level up their coding productivity, and expressiveness. More on each language follows.

Bring your dynamic programming language hats, and we’ll see you there!

GROOVY

Did you know that most Java is syntactically correct Groovy? Wouldn’t you rather:

// Use this new Groovy hotness:

println it

// Instead of this tedious Java:

System.out.println(it);

It also allows for a tight functional style, which we all know is the the debatable future / so-hot-right-now.

For more...

Screen Your Own T-Shirt

Matthew Badeau — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 22:00:00 -1000

Basic Screen Printing Workshop

We have some t-shirts for participants. (sizes & colors are limited/) or bring an old T-shirt and re-purpose it. The workshop will cover prep, camera-ready art, creating a screen, printing with inks, clean up, second color/second screen on same shirt.

We will supply camera ready HiCapacity related art for this workshop a Yudu Personal Screen Printer: A home/hobby all-in-one screen printing machine, is coming to live in the lab long-term for members to use. We will cover everything it can do as well as screen printing at home and resources for supplies.

Eric Quakenbush will teach you all about it. He has a design background and has taught sullen High School students. This workshop should be a slice of fried gold.

Questions? Contact Eric @ eric@action-packed.net

When: Thursday, February 24, 2013 @ 12pm to 4pm

Where: HI Capacity (in the Box Jelly), 307a Kamani Street Honolulu, 96813. (Please park on Ward Ave, Kamani street, or surrounding street parking).