I spent a quiet afternoon today soldering up an array of LM317 current regulators, attaching them to the LEDs, and running up a pair of power rails. It sounds simple but there were many little pieces of wire to cut, strip, and tin, and the whole thing took about five hours. Ava came along and helped out, which was fun.

ALTSpace was really hopping – there were people in and out all day. Cassie was doing some paper cutting work, Jason and a friend of his spent a couple hours building computers out of all the spare parts he has on his workbench, Mel was working away on jewelry, Brian did some beer brewing, and a couple from Austin stopped by just because they happened to be in town. It was great. One of my big goals for ALTSpace was to create a social hub and it’s great to see that happening.