Pumping Station: One

This Saturday (5.25) PS:1 will be holding a free members only event dedicated to playing (and possibly beating) some of the most difficult games on Xbox 360 around. Some titles you can expect to find are the classics like Mortal Kombat 2 (SNES), and Street Fighter 2 (SNES). But for some up to date titles – Super Meat Boy (Xbox 360), Monaco (Xbox 360), and the maddeningly brilliant, Braid (Xbox 360). But for the sake of fun and not entirely causing your brain to explode things like Castle Crashers, Battleblock Theater, and Geometry Wars will also be available.

This event will be held in electronics from 8pm to however long the group can endure. We’ll also be taking advantage of the whiteboards as you can expect dissection of game strategy, group plotting the next move, and making sense of the chaos in above picture.

When: 8pm
Where: PS:One, electronics
What to expect: Yelling, kicking, and screaming

Dale Sulak, Dwayne Forsyth and friends from 2DKits will be in for a night
of blinkie building fun!

This is where you get to build one of those LED flashing things.

You start with the kit, use the tools we have in the room. When you are
done, you will have a working blinkie. We have blinkie Techs to help you
debug any problems.

The folks at MuseCon are sponsoring their “Atomic Musecon” kit for
attendees for FREE! We have have the full range of 2DKits from
beginners to advance including the 4x4x4 RGB Cube, ranging from $5 to $80.

We do allow and encourage children to build their parent’s blinkie,
but the parent has to stick around and learn about the process.

When: Friday March 1 , 6:30pm to 9:00pm
Cost: Free
Open to the public: Yes

In this basic soldering workshop, Moldover will take you through the steps to build your own Light-Theremin CD case (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8UzSVFUIc0).  Even if you’ve never soldered before, this workshop will give you the confidence in two hours.  If you do have experience you’ll learn how to solder better, and walk away with a fun and unique instrument, plus a copy of Moldover’s latest album.

This workshop starts at 7pm, entry is free, and the kit will cost $25 to purchase. Space is limited and all ages are welcome! 8 seats taken 7 remaining! Want to reserve your seat? Email my name at gmail.com

Greeting everyone! I’m glad to be a part of the bloggers here at PS: One and even more excited to share the project that took me the past four months to complete. The Apollo 13.

But it’s actual name is the Maven. Because DJ Sasha happens to be the only one in the world who owns one – until you know, today.

Sasha is just one of those DJ’s that stands out to me, he’s not just putting two songs together, he’s putting on a real performance and he’s doing it with Ableton Live and the Maven. A one off piece of hardware so unique that if you know what Ableton is you drool just looking at this thing. It’s a fantastic looking device and I wish I could see the thing in person! Alas, I went entirely off of photos and four months ago began the project to replicate the device.

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