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EEVblog => EEVblog Specific => Topic started by: EEVblog on February 09, 2013, 08:21:09 am
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Dave visits the Connected Community Hacker Space (CCHS) in Melbourne on Feb 5th 2013
Check out the Cray Supercomputer, automated RFID door access system, 3D printers, various robots, and a chat with the head software developer for the Raspberry Pi.
http://www.hackmelbourne.org/ (http://www.hackmelbourne.org/)
Andy Gelme is part of http://lifx.co/ (http://lifx.co/)
Jon Oxer is part of http://www.freetronics.com (http://www.freetronics.com)
Alex Bradbury is part of http://www.raspberrypi.org (http://www.raspberrypi.org)
EEVblog #421 - Melbourne Hackerspace (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhVpdQPbji0#ws)
Dave.
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Damn looks like fun/handy place to be if you need access to some more advanced machinery to get those rare oneoff parts done... :-+
i believe theres couple hackerspaces in my country as well...
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Bunch of guys making stuff that later make more stuff. How do they find each other? Who pays for all these gadgets?
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Dave visits the Connected Community Hacker Space (CCHS) in Melbourne on Feb 5th 2013
Check out the Cray Supercomputer, automated RFID door access system, 3D printers, various robots, and a chat with the head software developer for the Raspberry Pi.
http://www.hackmelbourne.org/ (http://www.hackmelbourne.org/)
Andy Gelme is part of http://lifx.co/ (http://lifx.co/)
Jon Oxer is part of http://www.freetronics.com (http://www.freetronics.com)
Alex Bradbury is part of http://www.raspberrypi.org (http://www.raspberrypi.org)
EEVblog #421 - Melbourne Hackerspace (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhVpdQPbji0#ws)
Dave.
Dave ,
I Really enjoyed this .I am also interested in having a hackerspace in chandigarh my hometown .i would be starting a new thread asking about help and ideas before i dive into it .This was a very very memorable video that would be close to my hart foreever
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I need to rewatch the video, but which cray model was that one exactly? I think he said it was a Y-MP.
Does an iPad really have more compute horsepower than that thing?
According to wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray_Y-MP (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray_Y-MP) ):
The Y-MP could be equipped with two, four or eight vector processors, with two functional units each and a clock cycle time of 6 ns (167 MHz). Peak performance was thus 333 megaflops per processor.
The best benchmark I can find of the iPad ( http://www.anandtech.com/show/5688/apple-ipad-2012-review/11 (http://www.anandtech.com/show/5688/apple-ipad-2012-review/11) ) has numbers going up to 557.0 MFLOPS for the 3rd gen iPad. Which puts it in the ballpark (or at least the neighborhood) of a 2 processor Y-MP.
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where is the hacker space located?
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Near glenferrie station/Swinburne hackmelbourne.org