About us
Null Space Labs is a hackerspace in the Los Angeles area. We focus on hands-on learning and hacking of electronics, hardware and software development, computer security, lock picking, and more! Members have access to an extensive hardware lab, a tool room, electronics galore, a laser cutter, Haas CNC mill, a vinyl cutter, and much more for all of your hacking needs.
Tuesday nights are public open nights, but we're usually around most other week days after 7PM. Almost every Saturday afternoon we have a class of various aspects of security and technology, see more on the full class list.
Learn more about Null Space Labs at http://032.la.
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Null Space Labs
2522 N Ontario St
Burbank, CA 91504
Upcoming events
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Tuesday Open Meeting & Game Night
Null Space Labs, 2522 N Ontario St, Burbank, ca, USWelcome to Null Space Labs! Come by on Tuesday nights for our open meeting. We eat, drink, and hack all the things! Learn about programming, electronics, hardware hacking, lock picking, and more!
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Where do I park? / How do I get inside?
Parking: There is free street parking on N Ontario St. It is usually easy to find a spot after business hours or on weekends.
Getting inside: Once you park, head down the walkway, we are the long building in the back (see link for overhead directions)
Parking and entry images: https://032.la/#contact
6 attendees
Soldering Class: L1 Demo Board
Null Space Labs, 2522 N Ontario St, Burbank, ca, USThis is a paid class that requires preregistration on Universe! You can pre-register at https://www.universe.com/events/soldering-group-build-l1-demo-board-tickets-95TMBH
We'll also have a followup class on May 10th to go over setting up & programming the demo board.
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Let's solder together! We'll be building the LayerOne Demo Board, a small board that is a great learning resource for programming, electronics, art and music! If you have interest in C programming, assembly programming, graphics programming, or embedded systems programming, this is board is for you! You can also just build it for fun and we'll flash an example demo on it for you.
For the record, we consider this an INTERMEDIATE soldering board. There are a few small / challenging to solder components.
There are different options for tickets depending on if you have a kit already or not. We'll have a programming and demo class in May as a follow up for those of you who already have a functional board!
Hardware Specs:
- PIC24FJ256DA206
- 32Mhz, 16-bit
- 96Mhz GFX Core (CLUT, Fonts)
- 96K SRAM
- 256K FLASH
- USB/OTG
- XC16 Compiler, Assembler, Linker
- USB or EXT power (5-15V)
- 4-6 GPIO (configurable to UART, SPI, I2C)
- VGA Port: up to 16bit 5-6-5 DAC, 1-8bpp, up to 640x480
- Audio Jack: 8bit Audio DAC
- Open source
- Programmable via PIC Debug Port / Pickit3 or other compatible programmers
You can read a little about it here:
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Where do I park? / How do I get inside?
Parking: There is free street parking on N Ontario St. It is usually easy to find a spot after business hours or on weekends.
Getting inside: Once you park, head down the walkway, we are the long building in the back (see link for overhead directions)
Parking and entry images: https://032.la/#contact3 attendees
Retro Graphics Programming with the L1 Demo Board
Null Space Labs, 2522 N Ontario St, Burbank, ca, US*** IMPORTANT NOTES! ***
This class has limited seating and requires registration via Universe. RSVPing on Meetup is not the same as buying a ticket!GET TICKETS HERE: https://www.universe.com/events/retro-graphics-programming-with-the-l1-demo-board-tickets-DJ9W3H
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Beginner Retro Graphics Programming with the LayerOne Demo Board
Abstract: A "Demo" is a combination of programming challenge, artwork, and music. You’re given specific hardware with any number of restrictions – code size, available memory, processor speed. Your goal is to output audio and video that pushes the limits of what is considered possible with such limited hardware. Here’s some examples of award-winning demos on the Commodore 64 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yW5v93P-gBw), Atari XL/XE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EAG_811b4o), and an 8-bit Atmega88 microcontroller (http://youtu.be/sNCqrylNY-0?t=1m1s). Not enough? What about a full, three and a half minute 1080p HD demo written in just 4kb of code? Check out elevated by Rgba & TBC (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWcbj7ksqwE).
This class will cover the LAYERONE DEMO BOARD, a small piece of hardware designed by Arko & Davo of Null Space Labs. It's the board being used for the LayerOne 2026 Demo Party (https://www.layerone.org/events/demo-party/). If you have any interest in C programming, assembly programming, graphics programming, or embedded systems programming, this is the class for you!
We'll cover setup and usage of the graphics and character (text) GPU, basic graphics and text output, and basic sound output.
We recommend brushing up on your C programming before attending, but even beginners should be able to follow along. By the end of this class you will have made some graphics bounce around on the screen and output some funky beats to your audio port. This might not sound like much but trust me - it'll take some doing : )
What will you learn:
- Embedded PIC platforms
- VGA video signals
- Audio signals
- Real-time graphics rendering
- Graphics processing/programming
- LayerOne Demo Board scene manager library
What to Bring:
- PC/Mac Laptop with admin access. You will install some software at the start of class. If you'd like to pre-install, see http://l1demo.org/wiki/demoboard_getting_started
Pre-Requisites:
- Beginner level experience with C programming. Complete the "Basic" tutorial on https://www.learn-c.org/ and you should be fine.
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Where do I park? / How do I get inside?
Parking: There is free street parking on N Ontario St. It is usually easy to find a spot after business hours or on weekends.
Getting inside: Once you park, head down the walkway, we are the long building in the back (see link for overhead directions)
Parking and entry images: https://032.la/#contact
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4 attendees
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