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Techno Swap Fest
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February 28, 2015 – 9am to 2pm
National Electronics Museum 1745 West Nursery Road, Linthicum MD Attention All Hobbyists
If you answered YES or NO to any of these questions, you need to attend the 6th Annual Techno-Swap-Fest to buy, sell and gawk at all the precious junk that other hobbyists crave. |
Here are just some of the hobbies represented last year:
And some of the precious stuff (a.k.a. junk) you’ll find:
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Door prizes will be awarded to sellers for the:
as voted by all attendees.
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All proceeds support the National Electronics Museum:
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For more information, to reserve a table or become a club sponsor send email to: techno.swap.fest@gmail.com
If you’d like to print a copy of this information for yourself or to help spread the word, download our
Techno-Swap-Fest PDF Brochure
And please take a look at our Sponsor List
Lost in Place: Baltimore’s Poverty
Mapping Poverty in Baltimore. Excellent story, “Two reports illustrate the paradox of Baltimore: a high-poverty city that attracts young, educated,” in the Baltimore Brew this past week about mapping poverty. The interactive map can be reached here.
Singing Bowl @ the NODE
Today, Alan Grover and I spent a few hours at the NODE working on the singing bowl prototype. Unfortunately, while working out the electricity we electrified the TP120‘s and probably some of the other electronic components that regulate the solenoids. Fortunately, this is not too expensive, except for the time to put the electronics back together. One very important accomplishment was that we were able to illuminate one of the wall warts by replace one with a more powerful amperage and wattage.
For the rest of the time we focused on how the wiring will be layed out and reworked with snap together hardware. Top – singing bowl, solenoids stacked on top of the Ikea kitchen can that will be tied to the decorative trash can and the old record player box that will contain all the electronics.
The final the objective is to snap the parts together, plug & play.
Baltimore Grad Prix
Tree sounds Brooklyn, MD
Xiamen Listens: China sound memory
Last July, I had the opportunity to travel to Xiamen, China, Fujian Province. This is a montage of my time spent listening to the different soundscapes where I explored.
CAC – Art@Radio
Sounds of art@radio returns to a new location and streaming effort employing several low power radio transmitters embedded at the Chesapeake Arts Center broadcasting trans-local voices and sounds of place. Also broadcast will be excerpts from the a@r archives. Stay tuned for more information as it develops.
This is an example of some of the sounds of Curtis Bay, south Baltimore City, Maryland. Standing just inside of the Chesapeake CompostWorks warehouse with a steamy 12 foot pile of compost on one side and an open space that expands out towards the Inner Harbor the sounds of trains moving in and out of earshot along with various industries percolating in the soundscape.
IA Conference @ UMBC
Imagining America or IA is scheduled to be hosted by UMBC from October 1- 4, 2015. 
quoted from IA’s site: Imagining America was formally launched at a 1999 White House Conference initiated by the White House Millennium Council, the University of Michigan, and the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. The name Imagining America reflects the theme of the White House Millennium Council, focused on renewing participation in all walks of U.S. life: “Honor the Past – Imagine the Future.” Conference participants became the basis for what would become IA’s consortium of colleges and universities, and the University of Michigan agreed to be the initial host campus, with Julie Ellison as founding director.
Achievements of IA’s early years include fostering a national network of campus-community collaborators in humanities, arts, and design; developing an analytical framework to aggregate and critically consider the range of nascent artistic and scholarly endeavors; and promoting public scholarship as an important and legitimate enterprise in higher education.