TechShop RDU Grand Opening Celebration

Our friend and sponsor of Maker Faire:NC 2010, TechShop RDU, is having their grand opening celebration tomorrow (6/5/2010).  All day Saturday they'll be doing machine demonstrations, tours, big discounts on memberships, and serving food.  They suggest that you bring friends, neighbors, family members, coworkers, etc.

TechShop RDU is the same company as TechShop Durham.  The former location didn't quite suit their needs so they moved recently and freshened the name.  It's still the same group of nice makers, hackers, and enthusiasts just in a better building!

Here is our tentative schedule:
10:00 - Open for business
11:00 - First group tour
12:00 - 1:00 - Burgers, veggie burgers, hot dogs, sodas, water served
12:00 - Second group tour
1:00 - Third group tour
2:00 - Saw Stop demo
2:30 - Fourth group tour
3:30 - Open house closes
3:30 - 6:00 Business as usual
6:00 - Machines unplugged
6:00 - 9:00 - Members-only party w/ Burgers, veggie burgers, hot dogs, sodas, water, BEER served
9:45 - Cleanup
10:00 - TSRDU closes for the day

The new location is 5905 Triangle Drive in Raleigh located off of Highway 70 near Fred Anderson Toyota and The Angus Barn.  Contact them at (919) 782-2344 or via Twitter.

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CarolinaCon Hacker Conference Starts Friday 3/19

The very excellent CarolinaCon starts Friday night in Raleigh. Each year the conference gathers hackers and other technology enthusiasts in one space to hear presentations on everything from copyright law to lock picking. CarolinaCon is one of the last great tech bargains out there. Low travel costs, low entry fee, fascinating speakers, entertaining attendees, and cheap booze; how can you go wrong?

This year's call for presenters was so popular the organizers added another day of talks for no extra cost! Just check out this schedule of presenters and try to tell me this isn't worth $20.

We Don't Need No Stinking Badges - Shawn Merdinger	Smart People, Stupid Emails - Margaret McDonald
Locks: Past, Picking, and Future - squ33k	Mitigating Attacks with Existing Network Infrastructure - Omar Santos
Cybercrime and the Law Enforcement Response - Thomas Holt, Professor Farnsworth	OMG, The World Has Come To An End!!! - FeloniousFish
You Spent All That Money and You Still Got Owned - Joe McCray	Physical Manifestation of Software: Microcontrollers 101 - Nick Fury
Something Smells Phishy: The Evolution of Social Engineering - Chris Silvers and Dawn Perry	Protecting Systems through Log Management and System Integrity - David Burt
It's Not A Vulnerability, It's A Feature - Deral Heiland	Why Linux is Bad for Business - wxs
The Search for the Ultimate Handcuff Key - TOOOL	Hacking with the iPhone - snide
The Art of Software Destruction - Joshua Morin and Terron Williams	Metasploit - Ryan Linn
How the Droid Was Rooted - Michael Goffin