We’ve been busy at Protospace these last few months, almost too busy for regular blog posts. Here’s the scoop of what we’ve been up to: Robot Romance Open House On Febrary 11th, we had our first Open House of 2012 called Robot Romance...
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.” ~ Albert Einstein The human mind is a fascinating...
We were going to write up a big post that summarized a big project we did last week, but it looks like one of our own members already made an awesome blog post detailing the entire build process! Check out the link below for the full story! >> Faby...
It was bold move for us; leaving that wee space on McLeaod Trail & Tenth and finding a huge industrial space to give us room to grow. And it’s paid off! The transformation we’ve undergone in the last six months has been phenomenal. From...
We’ve had lots of fun sharing geek haiku on our discussion threads, thought it was time to start a public thread where everyone can join in. So lets hear your hacker haiku people! Seventeen syllables on all things geek. To get you started, here’s...
Remember a few months ago when we were trying to determine what sort of “big ticket” tools we wanted to buy? It was a toss up between a CNC, a Laser cutter and a 3D printer. The laser cutter was the top requested tool, but a little out of...
When your Facebook account or email gets hacked (proper use of the verb) it wasn’t a hacker who did it, it was a criminal. Hacking is a skill, a tool, like a chainsaw. If you use said chainsaw to take down a rotting tree before it falls on somebody’s...
At Protospace, we don’t sleep very often (well, at least I don’t), and this weekend was no exception. We had our hands full this weekend with interviews, the opening of the new science centre and planning of our upcoming Make:Art workshop. Our...
March 31st 2011 saw Kirk Sorensen pay a visit to Calgary PROTOSPACE (in our previous downtown location). Kirk spoke for 270 minutes on the subject of LFTR (Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors). This lecture was combined with over 10 hours of additional thorium...
Protospace’s first open house was held at the new space last night and was a blast! The public was welcome to come hang out and discover who we are. We also has the parts and tools available for attendies to hack their Halloween costumes, followed...
