HI Capacity

Hawaii VR Club's First Meetup

Kai Kau — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 00:40:00 -1000

Virtual Reality is making a comeback. If you’ve ever wanted to be IN the game, fully immersed like never before, you’ll want to join HI Capacity and IGDA Honolulu for Hawaii VR Club’s First Meetup. The Oculus Rift is a new device that delivers a virtual reality experience that once cost thousands of dollars. We have two Oculus Rifts (and accompanying dev kits), and we’ll be demonstrating the technology for the local community. To further stoke interest in developers and designers for the new platform, we’ll have a pair of talks about the Oculus Rift, virtual reality, and how Hawaii developers have the opportunity to get involved early creating for this innovative hardware.

See you there! #hicapvr

When: Tuesday, June 25, 2013 6:30pm to 8:30pm

Where: HI Capacity (in the Box Jelly), 307a Kamani Street Honolulu, 96813. (Please park on Ward Ave, Kamani street, or surrounding street parking).

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Bitcoin Mining

Jason Axelson — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 21:10:00 -1000

We’re glad to announce the first HI Capacity talk about Bitcoin, the cryptocurrency. The talk will cover an overview of bitcoin, what it is, and a short history.

Here is the agenda:

Briefly cover what mining actually accomplishes. What are blocks, how does the network synchronize, proof-of-work.
The History and Future of Bitcoin mining hardware, the progression from CPU to GPU, through FPGA to ASIC.
Comparison between mining strategies, the differences between mining in a pool vs. solo mining.
Demo of what mining looks like and how miners are managed
Questions & Answers

The talk will be informal, with an emphasis on discussion about Bitcoin. The speaker is Ta'a Pyland. The talk will be held on June 18th at 7pm. The location is HI Capacity, which is located in the back of The Box Jelly (and to the left of Fishcake).

RSVP on Eventbrite: http://hicap-bitcoin.eventbrite.com

When: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 @ 7pm

Where: HI Capacity (in the Box Jelly), 307a Kamani Street Honolulu, 96813. (Please park on Ward Ave, Kamani street, or surrounding street parking).

Hacking Linode Workshop

Matthew Badeau — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 10:30:00 -1000

In April this year, Linode (a VPS provider) was hacked. The group that hacked them used a ColdFusion exploit to break into their servers. I want to show you how to do the exact same thing (on our own servers of course). First, we’ll go over the story behind the hack, then we’ll get into the hack and show a live demo of the hack. I’ll show you how you can replicate the hack and how it works. I’ll also show you how a simple node.js app can be exploited to do a similar hack as well. HI Capacity members will be free. Please email me (matthew@hicapacity.org) for the information and to be added to our RSVP list. This presentation is only open to 15 non-members at $15 per person. The money from the talk will go to HI Capacity to help us expand.

When: Wednesday, June 12, 2013 from @ 7pm

Where: HI Capacity (in the Box Jelly), 307a Kamani Street Honolulu, 96813. (Please park on Ward Ave, Kamani street, or surrounding street parking).

How: Email matthew@hicapacity.org to be added to our RSVP list (free for members, $15 for non-members)

UI + UX Slides

Alan Solidum — Thu, 30 May 2013 18:30:00 -1000

Mahalo to Kathryne Sakata and Tiffany Higa for their informative and interesting talk on UI+UX. If you missed it or just want to review the material, here are the slides…

And let ‘em know how much you enjoyed the talk, I’m sure they’d appreciate it.

HICapacity UI talk by Kathryne Sakata

Kat received her graphic design degree from the New Media Arts Interface Design Program at Kapiolani Community College. She is currently a Graphic Designer and Web Developer at Design Asylum, Inc. and the Lead UI Designer at Undefeated Games, Inc. Kat enjoys engaging with new people and sharing her enthusiasm for design. She is an active member of AIGA Honolulu, HI-Capacity and Alakai Young Professionals and participates in various events including Startup Weekend, HNL New Tech Meetup, and WetWare Weds.

HICapacity UI talk by Tiffany Higa...

Industry Practices on UI + UX (DATE CORRECTED)

Kathryne Sakata and Tiffany Higa — Thu, 23 May 2013 18:30:00 -1000

This talk is to inform others of the necessary steps in creating a website and understanding the importance of UI (User Interface) + UX (User Experience) design. These steps may seem tedious, but as you dive into the design or even the development stage, you’ll quickly find out that this process will help to diminish problems that could occur down the road.

When: Wed, May 29, 2013 @7pm to 8pm

Where: HI Capacity (in the Box Jelly), 307a Kamani Street Honolulu, 96813. (Please park on Ward Ave, Kamani street, or surrounding street parking).

Register for this event now at : http://hicap-uiux.eventbrite.com

Kathryne Sakata

Kat received her graphic design degree from the New Media Arts Interface Design Program at Kapiolani Community College. She is currently a Graphic Designer and Web Developer at Design Asylum, Inc. and the Lead UI Designer at Undefeated Games, Inc. Kat enjoys engaging with new people and sharing her enthusiasm for design. She is an active member of AIGA Honolulu, HI-Capacity...

OUDL ~ Probabilistic Data Structures Are OZMM

Kyle Oba — Thu, 09 May 2013 23:50:00 -1000

Shu Chen (local genius wunderkind) will discuss the reasoning and implementation of two useful data structures (bloom filter and flower filter), both useful to big data applications, optimization, and impressing your colleagues.

Read up on bloom filters via Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom_filter

When: Thursday, May 16, 2013 @ 6pm to 8pm

Where: Manoa Innovation Center ~ 2800 Woodlawn Drive, Honolulu, HI

Register for this event now at : http://www.meetup.com/dynamic/events/117504572/

Industry Practices on UI + UX

Kathryne Sakata and Tiffany Higa — Thu, 09 May 2013 22:40:00 -1000

This talk is to inform others of the necessary steps in creating a website and understanding the importance of UI (User Interface) + UX (User Experience) design. These steps may seem tedious, but as you dive into the design or even the development stage, you’ll quickly find out that this process will help to diminish problems that could occur down the road.

When: Wed, May 29, 2013 @7pm to 8pm (DATE CORRECTED)

Where: HI Capacity (in the Box Jelly), 307a Kamani Street Honolulu, 96813. (Please park on Ward Ave, Kamani street, or surrounding street parking).

Register for this event now at : http://hicap-uiux.eventbrite.com

Kathryne Sakata

Kat received her graphic design degree from the New Media Arts Interface Design Program at Kapiolani Community College. She is currently a Graphic Designer and Web Developer at Design Asylum, Inc. and the Lead UI Designer at Undefeated Games, Inc. Kat enjoys engaging with new people and sharing her enthusiasm for design. She is an active member of AIGA...

Command Line Basics

Jason Axelson — Thu, 02 May 2013 21:15:00 -1000

Are you scared of the command line? Then this talk is for you. The goal of the talk is to teach the absolute basics of the command line. How to use it, get around, and manage files. There will also be tips to make the most out of your time on the command line. The idea is to become familiar with the command line to make good use of programs that require/benefit from it such as git.

The speaker for this talk is Jason Axelson; a local software developer locally that loves to work on the command line and uses Linux for his day-to-day work when possible. If this talk goes well there will be intermediate and advanced command line talks.

The talk will be on Wednesday May 8th, at 7:00pm at HI Capacity (inside The Box Jelly). Address is 307a Kamani st, Honolulu 96813. This talk is open to the public.

When: Wednesday, May 8, 2013 @ 7pm to 8:30pm

Where: HI Capacity (in the Box Jelly), 307a Kamani Street Honolulu, 96813. (Please park on Ward Ave, Kamani street, or surrounding street parking).

Register for this event now at :...

Cell Phone Robot Workshop

Matthew Badeau — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 22:00:00 -1000

Good evening! Tim Heath, one of our super smart HI Capacity members, is volunteering to host a workshop to create a cell phone controlled robot! It’s pretty amazing.

Tim writes: “Learn how to turn your cellphone into an inexpensive robot that you can control anywhere in the world using the MyRobot platform! If you want to actually create your own robot using a cellphone you can either buy a kit at the workshop or bring your own parts. At the least you will need a phone with serial output, a microprocessor (Arduino) to accept DTFM or serial input, serial break out board for your phone (if not using DTFM), two motors/servos for one castor wheel for motion etc… You will also learn how to create a robot chassis using blender and a RepRap machine. Email Tim at wgheath@gmail.com if you have any questions.”

HI Capacity has a printrbot 3D printer for members to use to print the chassis, if needed.

When: Wednesday, April 17, 2013 @ 6:30pm

Where: HI Capacity (in the Box Jelly), 307a Kamani Street Honolulu, 96813. (Please park on Ward Ave, Kamani street, or surrounding street parking).

Talking Story with a Maker

Marion Ano — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 20:30:00 -1000

Image courtesy of marin / FreeDigitalPhotos.net

We recently had a chance to sit down with HICap community board member, Alan Solidum and talk to him about his experience as a Top Finalist in Campbells API competition, Hack The Kitchen.

HC. Hey Alan… How was NYC?

AS. Amazing! I had a great time… Plus I got to finally meet one of the original cofounders of HICap, Ryan Kanno who moved to NYC to work for a finance company. I also went to DC and hung out with HICap ex-president, Austen Ito who was accepted in Hungry Academy last year and now works at Living Social.

HC. How are they doing?

AS. Awesome… They participated in Startup Bus and also got the Mashery Best Use of API Award in API Hack Day NY… But they were more interested in hearing what’s going on with HICap and where we’re headed.

HC. Where is HICap headed?

AS. Oh that would be a long discussion but let’s just say a lot of exciting stuff is coming up…. including Arduinos, Raspberry...