Category Archives: Events
LAN Party 2/25/12
When: Saturday at 7:00pm
Where: NESIT 290 Pratt St – 2nd Floor Meriden, CT Use the East entrance next to Club 24.
Cost: $10, snacks will be available and we usually get a pool up to order pizza, soda is 50¢ and B.Y.O.B. All proceeds go to help support NESIT and it’s community programs.
Computer Games: Counter Strike,Counter Strike Source, Unreal Tournament, Quake III, Left 4 Dead 2, Killing Floor, Open Arena.
XBOX Games: let us know if you want to play we’ll try to bring one for the event.
Old Skool Games: Nintendo and super Nintendo will be set up on the emulator box and play on the projector in between videos, etc.
Please sign up on our facebook event page if you would like to attend.
http://www.facebook.com/events/114076592054724
Breaking Web Apps with Burp Suite
This wednesday we’ll be working together to learn more about burp suite for web application testing, SQL injection, and bypassing weak authentication systems.
Its important to note that the format for this workshop will hands on, shared, open, and collaborative, and not specifically instructor driven.
We will have a live vulnerable test environment to test against, just bring a laptop capable of running burp suite (2GB Ram recommended) with Java Runtime Environment (version 1.5 or later).
SOAP Making workshop
Artisan soap-maker and hacker Chris Bergeron provides instruction fοr anyone wіth аn interest in this timeless craft, frοm amateurs tο professionals.
Insruction will Include liquid, сοƖԁ- аחԁ hot-process, melt-аחԁ-pour аחԁ re-batched soaps–аƖƖ using natural ingredients, sustainable methods and tools found in аƖmοѕt any kitchen.
When: 2/23/2012 @ 7:30PM
Where: NESIT – 290 Pratt ST Meriden, CT
Cost: Free (Donations always welcome to help us pay the rent)
RepRap Build Party
NESIT is pleased to announce that from June 30th to July 2nd, we will be hosting a RepRap Build Party.
This event will be a two 12 hour days and one 4 hour evening. As of right now, we will start building on Saturday morning and should be printing by Sunday night. On Monday evening we will fine tune our printers and make sure they’re going great.
We haven’t finalized the cost of this workshop yet but hope to have a final price soon. We do know that it will cost over $500 for parts, so everyone interested should start saving now. If you would like to participate, you will need to prepay for this event. Groups (up to three people) and individuals should feel free to sign up. If you are building in a group, please let us know as space is limited.
More details to follow in the next few weeks. To sign up go to our Meetup page, http://www.thehackerspace.org/events/51710122/.
Retooling
Many thanks to everyone that donated to the tool of the month fundraiser. Today’s day we picked up the new air compressor, air tools (including grinders, sanders,and air brushes), and safety gear.
Make a night light Build off
On February 11tht we’ll be gathering for NESIT’s first ever night light build off. To create AC powered, photo sensing night lights.
We’ll be basing our design closely off the following Instructable.
http://www.instructables.com/id/LED-nightlight-that-turns-on-in-darkness/
Cost for parts will be about 5.00$
All are welcome to participate as this will be an open build.
See more at https://www.facebook.com/events/279603962096359/
Wi-Fu 101
When: Wednesday 2/1/2012 7pm
Where: 290 Pratt ST Meriden, CT
(Second Floor – enter via the east entrance/loading docks and follows signs)
What: Wi-Fu workshop (see below)
Description:
As part of our on-going Whitehat Wednesdays we will be teaching a beginner’s class about wireless penetration testing.
Part 1: We’ll be exploring multiple ways and techniques to both penetrate, spoof, and own wireless networks from both the AP side and the client side. Using open source tools like spoonwep, Reaver, aircrack, and more…
Part 2: We’ll talk about techniques to detect and mitigate the attacks from the first part.
What to bring:
Bring yourself, a laptop or desktop computer, a wireless card, A backtrack5 DVD, and pizza/soda money.
We will provide: WIFI, Electricity, and seating, and a complete test environment for the workshop.
Cost: Nada – Donations always welcome 
So we can get a feel of who’s coming, sign up on our facebook event page: http://www.facebook.com/events/241487299258798
Micro Monday
Just wanted to let everybody know that we will be reviving and kicking off the embedded development workshop Micro Mondays Tonight starting at 7 PM.
Tonights agenda will be very informal, and will consist of establishing a barebones circuit to test and demonstrate the basic functions of the chip. We’ll learn to write a simple program, power up the chip, and run the program using a flashing LED as an output indicator.
Our microcontroller of choice is the PIC, however, feel free to bring your favorite microntroller (ie arduino) and necessary development tools for a side-by-side comparison.
No guarantees on how much ground will get covered, We have not prepared a lesson or anything like that and will be doing this off the cuff. We’re not expecting a huge turnout anyway due to the short notice. However, if you are interested, feel free to stop over, I’ll be in the electronics department.
We’ll planning on doing this regularly every Monday, unless it conflicts with another event.
Hope to see you there!
-Adam
