Arduino Night (Friday, 2/28 @ 1900-2200)

By on February 26, 2014

A night for beginners. A night for those with experience who aren’t sure where to direct all their micro-controller skills. Please come with open minds and fresh ideas. We have several ideas for projects; would like to discus them and how Arduino night can be shaped to benefit everyone. Projects to be discussed: March Build […]

Techno Swapfest – This Saturday

By on February 24, 2014

Saturday, March 1, 2014 9am-2pm National Electronics Museum 1745 West Nursery Rd, Linthicum, MD On Saturday, March 1st, National Electronics Museum (NEM) will be holding it’s 5th Annual Techno-Swap-Fest. The Unallocated Space (UAS) invites you to join us and bring hobbyist, family, and friends together to show off your techie spirit. This is a perfect […]

Lego Day – This Sunday!

By on February 24, 2014

UPDATE: LEGO Day, scheduled to occur on Sunday, March 2, 2014 3:00 PM has been cancelled. Please update your plans accordingly. The supplier of the blocks has a family emergency and can’t make it today. Someone will still be at the space, but we don’t have any lego’s to share. Sorry for the inconvenience, LEGO […]

FPGA Night (25 Feb, 7-10PM)

By on February 23, 2014

We will be integrating our SRAM module into our custom CPU. This will require quite a bit of modification to the existing CPU code. We will also be using the simulator to make sure our design works as planned. Please bring a breadboard and jumpers so that you can hook up the external memory chip. […]

FPGA Night (18 Feb, 7-10PM)

By on February 17, 2014

Late notice 🙁 We will be finishing up our SPI SRAM interface. The only parts left are to create a test module to send test data to the actual chip, and then to work the module into our existing CPU. Please bring a breadboard and jumpers so that you can hook up the external memory […]

UAS LAN Party (February 22 at 5:00 PM)

By on February 17, 2014

Another month, another LAN party! This Saturday night, we’ll have dinner, games, and a short tournament: 5:00 – Doors open 6:00 – Gaming starts 7:30 – Pizza arrives ($5/person) 9:00 – Tournament begins ??:?? – Everyone goes home happy We’ll enjoy pizza, drinks, and gaming the night away. We’ll have (properly tested) servers running for […]

Truckload of Electronics Parts donated

By on February 13, 2014

Earlier this week we picked up a truckload of electronics parts that were donated on behalf of a gentleman named Phil. Among the donations included a functional solder pot, awesome lamp and a metric ton of various electronics parts. I just wanted to publicly thank Phil. We may even be able to drag Phil to […]

Barcode Shmarcode 2014

By on February 1, 2014

DC949 has a rule that they do not run any event for more then 5 years, but this year is the 6th year of Barcode Shmarcode. Heidi, the awesome organizer of Shmoocon, asked that we take over the event. DA and Forgotten organized and advertised the event and Buddy assisted during the conference to help […]

FPGA Night (1/28 @ 7:00 pm)

By on January 27, 2014

We will finish work on our pointer instructions for the CPU. After that, we will start work on an SPI interface for SRAM. I do no expect that we will finish, but we should at least get the state machine coded up. The SPI module will not be specific to the CPU, but will eventually […]

UAS Lego Day

By on January 22, 2014

LEGO Day is Sunday, February 2nd from 3pm-5pm. All LEGO enthusiast, their families and children (ages 4 & up) are welcome to join Unallocated Space for a fun filled evening of building and discovery! This fun event includes some of the following activities: Building with LEGOs! Discover with LEGOs! Swapping LEGOs! Drinks & Snacks @ […]

CTF Meeting: Jan 26th 6pm (Free SANS class inside)

By on January 19, 2014

Subject: Forensics Why forensics? Often, when I talk about CTFs to people, they picture it being solely about exploiting boxes at Defcon. While exploiting is indeed a flashy part of CTFs, it is only a portion of the skills used to qualify or compete in a CTF. This month’s meeting is to inform/remind people that […]

Return of Lockpicking

By on January 8, 2014

Sadly with the holidays, we didn’t get a chance to have Lock Picking in December, but I am pleased to announce the return of Lock Picking tonight, Wednesday, January 8th 2014. Hope to see you out to brush up on your Lock Picking skills and open some locks!

LAN Party

By on January 8, 2014

Ahoy! The more observant among you might have noticed a LAN party on our calendar for this Saturday night. It’s been a while and we need a way to offload the pent-up holiday rage, so let’s make it happen. We’ll have dinner and games, briefly interrupted by a short tournament. 5:00 – Doors open 6:00 […]

HAM Radio Night on Friday

By on January 4, 2014

Our next Ham Night will be 1/10/14. I look forward to much participation as we plan out our new Year’s activities. Some of the Topics will include: Field Day 2014 Tower Trailer Project. Upcoming HamFest in Odenton 1/26/14. SDR Project. (We need a coil rolling Night to get this kickstarted again.) Repeater Project. Permanent Tower […]