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Hub Haps #009-Canon launches Innovation Lab
Sweet, sweet news for the WR photography community today. Canon launched the Canon Innovation Lab at the Communitech Hub this morning. Before the event even got started there were lots of photographers afoot, as you might imagine…
Hub Haps #008-was it Camera Day?
Cameras, cameras, everywhere at the Communitech Hub on Friday. If there’s anything I love more than cameras, it’s cameras on custom rigs with wires hanging out of them, held together by rubber bands. This handiwork by Kurt Schwarz.
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Hub Haps #007-Alexis Ohanian in the Communitech house
reddit founder, Y Combinator partner, and now podcaster, Alexis Ohanian dropped in for Techtoberfest at Communitech yesterday along with his film crew, all the way from Brooklyn. This is the third Techtoberfest he has hit here, so he must be … Continue reading
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Hub Haps #006-orange you glad for these bikes?
Y’all know I love bikes. Happily, this week saw the installation of a new Community Access Bikeshare station out in front of my favourite haunt, the Communitech Hub. Another instance of the great stuff coming out of The Working Centre … Continue reading
Hub Haps #005-music+beer+fun is good for business
I hit the monthly Hub Unplugged event last night at Communitech. Live music, drinks, lots of connections. For all the talk in the community at large of the necessity of creating a fun place that attracts and retains the talent … Continue reading
Hub Haps #004-Kurt’s charity bike rig
Last week, Kurt Schwarz was rigging up his bike for a stationary charity ride. He’s using a Raspberry Pi to tap into the resisto-matic flywheel on his back tire to display distance, energy generated, and other telemetry. Christie Digital … Continue reading
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Hub Haps #003-Myo-controlled Klugman Kar
I cannot make this stuff up. But Kurt Schwarz and Yanish Jutton can. They are $400 out of pocket and totally kicking ass with their Myo-controlled Klugman Kar (my moniker, not theirs). It not only drives via Myo-control, but also … Continue reading
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Hub Haps #002-talking photography at The Tannery
Had a productive conversation about photography on Friday with representation from CAFKA, Christie Digital, Foto:RE, Communitech and the ever-awesome Catherine Bischoff. Stay tuned for more shortly. And let me say that this photo does not do justice to the panoramic … Continue reading
Hub Haps #001-bucket list
Yesterday at the Communitech Hub, out on Francis Street, Iain Klugman and John Baker, CEOs of Communitech and Desire2Learn respectively, got doused by this eager crew. Of course the good cause was the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. With all the … Continue reading