sprout and the stories of our investigations

processing meet-up, march 2 at 730pm

Processing is a programming language “for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions.”

On Tuesday March 2, this processing-focused meet-up will meet at sprout (339R Summer St. Somerville MA) to talk over the possibility of a joint processing project with IxDABoston. The tentative plan is to use processing to create a visualization of [...]

Thursday Night is Project Night

Last night, Eric Smith hosted our first Project Night at sprout. This event is open to anyone, whether they have a project to work on, want to get familiar with our space and tools, or want to hang out and help other people with what they’re working on.

Nagle and Kunle were trying to fix [...]

the open house that almost wasn’t

With stories about landlord troubles rampant among coworking and hackerspaces, we wanted to avoid the problem all together by letting everyone know we were there and that they could come and talk to us about any noise, traffic, or other complaints they might have over the coming months and–hopefully–years. And besides, we were excited [...]

spaghetti for people

The police didn’t show up until 10PM.

Apparently, you need a permit to have a live band play in your driveway in Somerville.

By 10, though, there were just remnants of the evening’s earlier event :: a pot of chilly spaghetti, some make-shift benches, and–the only thing to suggest that a brass band had been dancing and [...]