Here’s a summary of a few of the projects that are / will be happening at Protospace. Most of the links below will bring you to our wiki pages maintained by our members.
Completed or Currently Happening:
OpenBTS
We have in our possession 2 USRPs from Ettus Research – what you need to set up your own open source GSM base station. One of our Directors – Ben Reed – completed an OpenBTS project as a part of his schooling at SAIT Polytechnic, and Protospace was the project sponsor!
SAIT ITTS SECN
Similar to OpenBTS, a group of SAIT students want to devise an inexpensive emergency network used for disaster & event coordination
3D Printing
3D printers are pretty much sorcery. We currently have 2 3D printers to play with and more on the way!
Tesseract
A project for East Village’s Christmas Tree by two of our hardest working members, Faby & Kirk.
Chr1stm4s Tr33
Protospace was a part of Calgary’s First Annual Holipalooza – a holiday shindig that raised money for charity. Some of our members worked hard to create a geeky Christmas tree out of hard drive platters & LEDs!
RFID Access System
Every hackerspace needs a high tech way to enter and exit – physical keys just don’t cut it these days!
In Development:
Quad Copters
A few of our members are planning to complete some interesting drones in the near future.
Hydroponics
A few members are excited about building an inter-related system of fish and vegetable farming.
