[MakeLV] hello and greetings

[Josiah Ritchie]

Welcome Mitch!

Hope you can make it out Thursday. I won't be around, but others will
certainly.

JSR/
On Jun 9, 2012 9:14 PM, "Mitch Carney" <mitch.carney at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi, I've grown up in Allentown I went to William Allen high school and
> have been an avid follower of 2600 the hacker quarterly since around
> eighth grade in middle school. I'll be trying to go back to school
> part time to finish up my IST degree from Penn state. So basically I'm
> working to try and be a professional computer geek. I've visited the
> hacktory in Philadelphia and thought the whole concept of a
> hackerspace to be really awesome. I was ecstatic when I found out that
> some people have started up a hackerspace in allentown. I'd like to be
> involved in some fashion with makelehighvalley if I can. For the
> moment I don't have good constant Internet access or transportation.
> I'm interested in many technological fields though. I have a friend up
> at Penn State main campus who would be willing to teach me how to do
> reprap and I could probably eventually get a machine thorugh him for
> the makelv if the group was interested in it. I'm also interested in
> learning arduino. I'd love to learn how to make an arduino
> quadracopter if it was possible or if anyone else has an interest in
> it. Even better if I could eventually reprap out parts for one:) I'm
> also interested in augmented realty applications, and even though I
> have little experience in making anything functional, I know some of
> the theory behind it. I've had experience with html javascript c++
> java php and a few other languages but although I can read programming
> code. I've never really become very good at actually programming
> anything. I'd like to change that someday if I could but I know that
> it will be a hard learning process. I hope to make it out to a meeting
> one of these Thursdays, if I can, to meet some of the other hackers in
> the area and try to get involved with something. Also I have some old
> fishertecknik equipment I thought might make a good donation to the
> space to see if anyone can make anything out of it. (It's mostly a
> bunch of air pumps and some logic boards but could potentially be used
> for a cool project.) If anyone wants to talk my cell number is 610 739
> 7635. Thanks for existing!
>
> _______________________________________________
> Makelehighvalley mailing list
> Makelehighvalley at makelehighvalley.com
>
> http://makelehighvalley.com/mailman/listinfo/makelehighvalley_makelehighvalley.com
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://makelehighvalley.com/pipermail/makelehighvalley_makelehighvalley.com/attachments/20120611/e74e13ae/attachment.htm>