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		<title>More Development Boards</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to Jonathan at Reach Technology for dropping off a large box of new (for us) development boards to play with. Included in the box he brought are two OMAP3 boards, a quantity of Netburner modules, some Rabbit boards, and a whole slew of other things. We love new toys! These are of course available [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brainsilo.org/2012/02/more-development-boards/</link>
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		<title>Workshop Jan 29th: Building a High Speed DIY Book Scanner</title>
		<description><![CDATA[WHEN: Sunday, January 29, 2012 from 11am–4pm at the BrainSilo Hackerspace. Wish you could study faster, search through all your books in seconds like Google does (even when unavailable on Google), and get digital editions of those books currently unavailable through Amazon, Barnes and Nobles&#8217; or other online providers? Come learn how! The Paper Upgrade [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brainsilo.org/2012/01/workshop-jan-29th-building-a-high-speed-diy-book-scanner/</link>
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		<title>Pocketfactory.org Crew giving a 3d Demo Day!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s last minute, but the Pocketfactory.org crew is coming through Portland on Friday, January 13th, and they want to give a 3d printing and scanning demo. With 3 MakerBots, an UP!, some kinects, and a bunch of other fun 3d printing and scanning equipment, the crew wants to talk to anyone interested in 3d tech. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brainsilo.org/2012/01/pocketfactory-org-crew-giving-a-3d-demo-day/</link>
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		<title>College of Lockpicking @ Backspace on Wednesday, November 30th</title>
		<description><![CDATA[br {clear:none;} GET YOUR TICKET NOW: http://collegeoflockpicking.eventbrite.com (and don&#8217;t foget to use the BrainSilo discount code, see below) You can pick your friends. You can pick your beer. But can you pick&#8230; a Lock? Join the College of Lockpicking on Wednesday, November 30th, from 7-9pm, as we embark on an ancient mechanical adventure to explore [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brainsilo.org/2011/11/college-of-lockpicking-backspace-on-wednesday-november-30th/</link>
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		<title>We have a CNC Milling machine!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to Jesse, a brand new member (also brand new to Portland &#8211; he just moved here) who didn&#8217;t have room for it, we have a small CNC milling machine. We&#8217;re in the middle of converting over to run with EMC2, but hopefully it will be fully running with a control system by next week!]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brainsilo.org/2011/09/we-have-a-cnc-milling-machine/</link>
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		<title>Microcontroller Crazy!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Loki unknowing entered a drawing at OSCON&#8230;  and won.  Thanks to Deno at Palamida (Open Source IP Assurance), the silo has been sent an Adafruit Industries Arduino Budget Pack as a the prize. We now have quite the selection of microcontroller and development boards to play with, and are getting more all the time.  Some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brainsilo.org/2011/08/196/</link>
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		<title>BrainSilo NEEDS your feedback</title>
		<description><![CDATA[BrainSilo, Portland&#8217;s only 24/7 hackerspace (hell, it&#8217;s only hackerspace), isn&#8217;t doing so well &#8211; and we&#8217;d like your input on why you aren&#8217;t using it. (if you haven&#8217;t heard of us, check out http://www.brainsilo.org/) We&#8217;ve been open since January 1st, 2010 and incorporated as a nonprofit entity for almost exactly a year now. Originally, we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brainsilo.org/2011/06/brainsilo-needs-your-feedback/</link>
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		<title>ThinkGeek is giving away their garbage &#8211; and we&#8217;ve asked for some</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ThinkGeek as recently announced that they will be giving away some of their returns and damaged items to groups and hackerspaces that will do something interesting with them.  BrainsSilo has been signed up for the program, and we&#8217;ll see if it gets approved. I probably don&#8217;t need to say how awesome this would be.  Since [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brainsilo.org/2011/03/thinkgeek-is-giving-away-their-garbage-and-weve-asked-for-some/</link>
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		<title>Sprint AIRAVE/Samsung SCS-26UC Teardown instructions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We completely tore down the Samsung SCS-26UC2 last night, taking picture along the way.  We also got a serial cable working with it, which we&#8217;ll be posting info about later. If you want to see the instructions, check them out at our new Google Code Repository for the device: http://code.google.com/p/samsung-femtocell/wiki/Samsung_SCS26UC2_Teardown]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brainsilo.org/2011/03/sprint-airavesamsung-scs-26uc-teardown-instructions/</link>
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		<title>New toys for tonight&#8217;s general meeting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve picked up a couple new toys that we will be exploring tonight: a C2D Digital Microscope and a Sprint Airave CDMA Femtocell (Samsung SCS-26UC). The C2D Digital Microscope is essentially a USB camera attached to a toy microscope, but it claims up to 220x magnification.  No linux drivers are provided, but it might work [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brainsilo.org/2011/03/new-toys-for-tonights-general-meeting/</link>
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