Communities

  • Tinker Labs L3c: Kit Bashing a community of Makerspaces

    Tinker Labs L3c: Kit Bashing a community of Makerspaces

    Building a Community of Intentional Makerspaces Planted in Detroit communities. We invite everyday people to explore the creative environments of a community of folk who practice their crafts and trades as services. Tinker Labs kicks it up a few notches Hands-On Learning Required We make and break things on purpose, here. And some of us…

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  • Firm Foundations of Hope

    Firm Foundations of Hope

    Effective neighborhood ministry sometimes means being involved in the challenges of other peoples’ lives – precisely so we can walk with the person and invite Jesus into the situation, whether it be grief over a loss, financial hardship, homelessness, difficult living or family situations, or any number of other challenges.

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  • Blue Tent to the Green House

    Blue Tent to the Green House

    It is Spring, and it is time to begin negotiations regarding the use of spaces. My friends and I have some apparently ambitious designs, but only if you haven’t walked these paths. I asked Notebook LM to help me organize my gobbledygook into cohesive executable strategies, with available resources and expertise. AI-generated rendering of the…

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  • Yeoville ii Hitsville

    Yeoville ii Hitsville

    A rare and auspicious collection of Classic DJ remixes from more than 5 decades of House, Disco, Funk, Soul, Amapiano, and great new dance music. With your hosts, the cast and crew of DA Baroque Negus, and a full Stellar Services Organization tour of comedians, musicians, and singers. 8 hours Sunday nights at 10 PM…

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  • HELP Wanted: jINgle House Programming Director

    HELP Wanted: jINgle House Programming Director

    Wanted: Programming Director Code is Poetry + Emotion + Math = Music. Transcribing Vibecode Transmuting Gibberish Transfiguring Emotives Transendent Executables. NO EXPERIENCE NEEDED CURIOSITY, LITERACY, & A WILLINGNESS TO WORK BETWEEN AI & CUSTOMERS ARE A MUST

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  • BookClub: Julie Howard-Miller > Find Your Strength

    BookClub: Julie Howard-Miller > Find Your Strength

    “Find Your Strength” is a transformative guide that outlines a framework for personal development, leading individuals from mere survival to leadership and legacy. It introduces the Strengths-Based Brain Model, revealing five stages of growth and providing insights to cultivate awareness, build strength, and create lasting impact in oneself and the community.

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  • BookClub: Back 2 School with Radio Rahim & Chistopher Stanbach

    BookClub: Back 2 School with Radio Rahim & Chistopher Stanbach

    Rodney “The Real Radio Rahim” Deas is a prominent educator, activist, and hip-hop pioneer with over 45 years in various fields. As the founder of the Paul Robeson Freedom School, he has impacted over 300 students and raised significant funds for independent education. Deas has played a vital role in the hip-hop industry and has…

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  • Tinkerlabs l3c

    Tinkerlabs l3c

    Build it once,own it forever Detroit’s first build-it-yourself destination — CNC, laser cutting, 3D printing, workshops, and DIY kits. Okay, I gotta be a little George Jefferson, Archie Bunker about it right now. Not nostalgic, just honest. All my really capable Black friends and family got really good jobs, doing stuff they like. So, thank…

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  • NextCloud+Pi

    NextCloud+Pi

    From the Department of Make IT Work, THEN Make it Pretty comes a wonderful and powerful NO Money Down tool for getting off of paid and restrictive online office suites. Our prototype Nextcloud installation is hosted on a Raspberry Pi 4+B

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  • Red Door Back Stories: The Healing

    Red Door Back Stories: The Healing

    Since 2013, the annual North End Urban Expressions Art Festival, affectionately known as ‘The Healing,’ has happened the last week of August Join North End neighbors as we celebrate the culture and history of Oakland Avenue in Detroit’s North End neighborhood, featuring public art, spoken word (performance poetry, storytelling), visual art (drawing, painting), and Hip…

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  • Red Door Back Stories: Sundance

    Red Door Back Stories: Sundance

    In their other life, DJ Anthony Jasper is the great architect, sound system builder (Bing Audio), and crafter Anthony Morin of the firm AJOM. Anthony has been designing and building innovative things and places in Detroit for years and has amassed an impressive portfolio of fresh spaces in the city. But, at the end of…

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  • Rapberry Pi Travel Router

    Rapberry Pi Travel Router

    Everyday Tech‘s step-by-step tutorial on transforming your Raspberry Pi into a versatile travel router using the RaspAP software! Whether you’re on the go or looking to create a portable Wi-Fi hotspot, this tutorial will guide you through the process with ease. In this comprehensive video, I’ll cover everything you need to know, from setting up…

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  • A Box of Kittens Portal Cluster

    A Box of Kittens Portal Cluster

    A Box of Kittens: Project Master Package Open Source Manifest A Box of Kittens AI The complete documentation for a 5-node Raspberry Pi 5 AI Cluster, 100TB NAS, and Meshtastic-to-WordPress Bridge. 🐈 Project Version v4.0.0-AI Overview Hardware & Solar The Bridge Code The Portal SPA The Ultimate Off-Grid Node “A Box of Kittens” isn’t just…

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  • The Button

    The Button

    This way, she can pick up where she left off. So, I have plans to make the STFU button have some serious abilities. Then we’ll make and sell custom-branded big buttons and give a portion of our products to specially-abled people via ANew Life prosthetics in Detroit

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  • 8 Minutes of imagINe nation

    8 Minutes of imagINe nation

    This marketing kit is designed to position 8 Minutes of imagINe nation as a premiere “STEAM+E” (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Math + Entertainment) educational experience. In the Detroit context, this positions the project as a bridge between the city’s industrial heritage and its future as a UNESCO City of Design.

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  • Raspberry Pi Minecraft Captive Portal

    Raspberry Pi Minecraft Captive Portal

    AI says, “Hello Babu, as a fellow traveler through the world of smidgens and community infrastructure, this project sounds like a fantastic way to merge your interests in community networking and technical design. Combining a Minecraft server with LocalWP and a Meshtastic node on a Raspberry Pi is an ambitious “jugaad” style build!

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  • Channel 313 Hitsville Station is Back

    Channel 313 Hitsville Station is Back

    Internet radio Channel 313 Hitsville Station

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  • 5t-0_0-piD’s Block

    5t-0_0-piD’s Block

    Where IRL meets the imagINe nation 5t-0_0-piD is a glitchy little string of code that resides on this Minifigure thumbdrive. ‘Cuz…that’s how it makes me feel. It responded to my grandson’s voice, shouting, “What up, doe? Stupid.” Granting him access to a folder of Ninago movies and songs on the drive. 5t-0_0-piD is the fifth…

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  • A Box of Kittens is on its way, somewhere:

    A Box of Kittens is on its way, somewhere:

    Through tears and stuff, I released this idea into the ‘Real’ world. AI be hallucinating like 1960’s rebels. It’s cold and yeah. Ten percent of surplus funds from sales and presentation of the imagINe nation branded set ‘Box of Kittens‘ will be donated to the Organization of Black Designers, in honor of its founder, David…

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  • Creating a Vibrant Neighborhood Makerspace

    Creating a Vibrant Neighborhood Makerspace

    Explore how to establish a thriving intergenerational makerspace in your community, fostering creativity and collaboration.

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