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== Historical Document ==
This page is intended to document as much of our activities as possible so we can maintain a sense of history of what our group has done over time. It should be used for anything that happens outside of the [[Meeting_Minutes]] document.

== July 2010 ==
==== Bloominglabs is official! ====
Moved out of Jenett's basement and into our room at [http://www.thecollaborationroom.org The Collaboration Room]. Picked a name for our space. Formed Bloominglabs LLC and signed our lease for the room. 

==== Held these workshops which where open to the public ====
* Soldering
* AVR programming I
* AVR programming II
* Arduino + RF/wireless

The Soldering workshop was our first and had 17 attendees (out of 6 RSVP's). The AVR workshops had 11 and 6 attendees respectively, and the Arduino RF workshop had 6 attendees. All went over extremely well and had very good feedback.

==== External Publicity ====
Local writer Kevin Makice wrote about The Collaboration Room and the Bloomington Hackerspace Initiative in his Wired blog [http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2010/07/the-collaboration-room-where-geeks-create-art/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+wiredgeekdad+(Blog+-+GeekDad) Geek Dad]. Member Joe Stone was at the Detroit Maker Faire the weekend of July 31st and sat on a panel about hackerspaces along with Mitch Altman.

== August 2010 ==
After the whirlwind that was July we relaxed and only held one workshop. Mitch Altman and Jimmy Rogers stopped by on August 19th to host a soldering workshop, it was another great success.

== September 2010 ==
* Obtained a drill press
* Got prototype of RFID door-access system working based on [http://blog.shop.23b.org/2010/10/open-access-control-v100-board.html Open Access Control]
* Installed shelves on main closet in space
* Cleaned up front porch power tool area
* Installed deadbolts on Matthew's and Arthur's doors
* Aluminum casting mini-workshop with coffee can forge

== October 2010 ==
* More work on RFID system
* Collaboween projects built with Matthew
* Arduino shield build parties
* [http://wiki.lvl1.org/Mini-Sumo_Competition_10/29/10 Sumobot throwdown] and halloween party at LVL1 in Louisville, KY
* Started accumulating hardware for plastic vacuum-forming table

== November 2010 ==
* More work on RFID system
* Prep for December soap-molding workshop
* Prep for January bugbots with Wonderlabs

== December 2010 ==
* St. Nick's workshop (soap-molding/vacuum forming, hand-warmer sewing, hand-bag sewing, and card making)
* Reporter from Indiana Daily Student came and documented the workshop

== January 2011 ==
* BugBot workshop with Wonderlab

== March 2011 ==
* Preparations for July 4th Parade entry
* Electric wheel chair acquired for robotic platform hacking

== April-June 2011 ==
* Activity around TEDx Bloomington event - geocaching boxes started, but not enough time to finish these in time for TEDx
* Preparations for July 4th Parade entry
** smoke ring cannons
** twinki launchers
** IR LED message scroll-sign
** Strand Beast (walking machine) design well under way
** electric wheel chair platform hacking via CANUSB adapter
* Reporter from Bloom Magazine interviewed several members and observed a meeting in June

== July 2011 ==
* Parade float in Bloomington July 4th parade!
* Moved to our new space on Roll Avenue!!
* Follow-up from Bloom Magazine to get photos of our new space
* Open-house July 23rd