What do you do when you bought a wall-wart or car charger for your phone, and it doesn't work due to not following the USB Charger specification*? Well, you could open it and make it follow the spec, or you could build an universal adapter that converts any USB outlet …

We just got rid of a table and some crap. Time to celebrate the new empty space within Umeå Hackerspace!

Also, the police may have visited us, as can be seen on this surveillance tape.

The board of Umeå Hackerspace actually performed its function (to the surprise of many),  and held a meeting, laid some plans, and actually did something vaguely related to same.

Specifically, there is now a way to give us money (yay!), namely through Bankgiro 742-4690, meaning that we will soon begin …

Umeå Hackerspace is an association for the promotion of curiosity about technical matters and systems, and hacking in the old sense of the word. See the Jargon file for details.

We are a registered non-profit association (ideell förening), with organisation number 802458-8587.

If you like what we do and want …

Given that culture is no longer stored as a plastic disc, there's really no good reason to keep the old racks in your livingroom. But throwing stuff in the bin never feels quite right. Thus, the best solution is to simply renew the functionality of your hardware.

A creative hacker …

Skatteverket beslutade 23 mars 2011 att ideella föreningen Umeå Hackerspace skall tilldelas organisationsnumret 802458-8587. Föreningens interimstyrelse, med ordförande pettter, som valdes tidigare i år intervjuades av Mikael Hansson från Infotech Umeå strax efter det konstitutionerande mötet.

Med anledning av den officiella organisationen så fungerar föreningen enligt demokratiska principer och lyder …

Ever plugged in too much power into your electronic equipment? Or for some other reason seen smoke come out of it? A friend of Umeå Hackerspace had a Casio PT-1 that he apparently had tried to use with a bit too much power in the supply. Fortunately he hadn't caused …

A Class-D amplifier made with a LM324 Op-amp, a 555 timer and a N-channel FET.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJhOOJ4qTOc

I have no idea how something this simple and cheap can sound so good, and even without any kind of filter.

Time to test out som unconventional "speakers …

Arduinos are truly universal, this one is playing some fine music, almost makes you feel like dancing, doesn't it?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fX9eUR5EXOA

Used code and schematic from this site:
http://interface.khm.de/index.php/lab/experiments/theremin-as-a-capacitive-sensing-device/
Arrrr...duino!

This afternoon, 2011-01-19 at 19.19 CET, Umeå Hackerspace will have its constitutional meeting. This means that it will become a registered organisation that can not only sign deals and organize events but also manage an economy and democratically use the money for whichever cause the members see fit.

The …

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With a Grill-bit delegation having visited 27c3, meeting hackers from all over the world, the local technology internet magazine InfoTech Umeå wanted an interview.

The article produced is in Swedish and rather lightly …

Arcade machines are a thing of the past, you might think. Big, clunky and expensive with a just about as lifelike experience as your old 15" CRT, except for the actual controls. And those only interest people with some sort of nostalgic feeling to the golden arcade days.

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Sunday evening and nothing to do? Well, at least this evening there were people in the space and equipment to play with. For example a random wind speed monitoring device that we examined and found out that it's basically just a dumb rotary sensor that triggers an interrupt on your …

Last night we had a great hacking evening with lasers and security-related wireless transmissions. What more can one ask for?

OpenLase is a sort-of framework with several stand-alone tools which are combined to produce real-time laser graphics with hobbyist-grade components. One of Grill-bit's hackers hast started fiddling with this, getting …

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Umeå Hackerspace skickar en delegation till Chaos Communication Congress, 27-30 december. Kongressen är en mötesplats för den internationella hackerscenen. På plats kommer de att ansluta till andra nätaktivister från "oorganisationen" Telecomix, som verkar för ett öppet …