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Island Labs is a collective of technology enthusiasts from Long Island, New York. We aim to improve the world by creatively rethinking technology. Some focuses of the group are mechanical, software, electrical, chemical, social, and food engineering. A lot of us are artists, musicians, and generally fun people. \o/ All meetings are open to the public, we have newcomers every meeting. Please see the irc link below to talk with us live now.
===== News =====
* We made [[http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/03/look_its_jersey_in_space.html|Make Magazine's Blog]]!
* In case you haven't noticed the [[photowall|picture wall]] above: [[[[project:near_space_launch|This was a triumph]]
* The Red Cross wrote us a [[../Red_Cross_Donation.pdf|thank you letter]]!
* Newsday [[http://www.newsday.com/long-island/li-life/hackerspaces-tinkering-in-the-21st-century-1.1689682|wrote an article]]! [[http://foster.stonedcoder.org/~kupo/newsday.pdf|pdf version]]
===== Interact =====
* [[http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=islandlabs|Come chat]] with Island Labs members *live* on IRC ([[irc://irc.freenode.net/islandlabs|#islandlabs on freenode]])
* [[http://islandlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/list|Join the discussion]] on the Island Labs Mailing List
* [[http://identi.ca/group/islandlabs|Follow our identi.ca group]] to keep super up-to-date
* [[members|Meet us]] in person every Wednesday @ 7:00pm in the [[map|Math Tower room 1-113 at Stony Brook University]]
===== Explore =====
* Learn the definition of a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackerspace|Hackerspace]]
* Read our [[http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/IslandLabs|HackerSpaces.org registry page]]
===== Create =====
* Here are some projects we are working on, [[project:new|add your own]]!
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