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Live in or near Provo, UT, and want to test your project skills in
an online competition? TheTransistor hackerspace is competing in a
hackerspace build-off, and is looking for a few good makers to help
with an upcoming mystery project. The competition is open to the
public: Full details have not been release yet; but this will be
open to the public (as long as you fill out the release form). Here
are the details so far: 5 Hackerspaces will compete in a
professionally recorded web-only event. theTransistor has already
been selected as one of these groups. The build-off should start
the first week of August, the exact dates are still u...
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