 I'm Mitch Altman. This is Jimmy Rogers and we go all over the world setting up hardware hacking areas teaching people how to solder and make cool things with electronics. We also set up areas like this every year at Congress, at camp, so that it's a community resource. Anyone who wants to come and make something, fix something, create something, work with others, learn something, they can come here. And it's not just electronics, it's anything you can make. Yeah and the hardware hacking area, if you've not been there, is one of the most active areas I've seen. Just even at four o'clock in the morning people are taking things apart and soldering and doing all kinds of crazy stuff. Yeah we have a ton of workshops. So people actually have a lot of fun. It creates a temporary community and it's all ages. Anyone can learn to do this stuff. It's very useful and it's a lot of fun. Look at the smiles on these happy people soldering away. And even kids like four years old, it's no problem to learn this stuff. Another slide. There's lots of cool kids that we brought to teach people who have never soldered or made anything or even sewn a button in their life to complete successfully. These are just some projects. There's another slide with more projects. We've got games, we've got blink and lights, we've got noise makers, we've got Arduinos, we've got chargers, we've got all sorts of cool things. And we also have a lot of workshops planned. This is one I'm going to do today at two o'clock for people who don't know Arduino. It's a computer chip platform that is designed for non-geeks to be able to use and learn within an hour and a half. So in a three hour workshop we're going to go through all of this. Learn to solder, learn to use Arduino, learn to do everything you need to know about electronics. And we'll use a TVBGON as an example because TVBGON is so simple and it's so useful to turn off TVs everywhere you go in public. My co-author for the book I'm writing on how to make cool things with microcontrollers for people who know nothing made this Geiger counter kit. And he'll be doing a workshop on that three times. Today, tomorrow, the next day. Next Nick. Jimmy. I'll be doing a circuit bending workshop sometime tomorrow. The time will be on the wiki. Basically modifying toys and other electronic instruments, effects pedals, etc. etc. to make them do other crazy things and additional sounds and make noise. Yeah, pretty much. So everyone's invited. You can all come and learn to make cool things. I also didn't have a slide here but we also have a brain computer interface workshop happening. We have a hacked knitting machine which will be printing out all sorts of cool things including Matte Cosies. Yeah, the rocket badge folks are down there. So whenever you want to talk to them about some of the more advanced stuff like getting the GCC installed on your computer, etc. stuff like that, it's all down there and tons of stuff. And this is a picture from Noisebridge the last time I did the Arduino for Total Newbies workshop. Oh, and we're also going to have some of those little rocket launchers. They're going to be moved down into the hardware hacking area. So there's like 140 USB rocket launchers that are busted. Somebody donated. Yeah, I think Geek donated here for people to hack on. So we'll have those down there as well so people can come by and grab one. Yeah, so come down and play. And next slide is our contact info. You can contact me or Jimmy anytime for any reason, including if you want to be talked into quitting your job so you can do something more useful. One minute.