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Geek Places around Central FloridaQuick navigation: Science | User groups | Restaurants | Project places and labs | Games, comics, sci-fi and collectibles | Entertainment | Ham radio | Geo-caches, walking tours, metal detecting and odd locations | Flea Markets | Gun ranges | Grocery | Repair shops | Stores not covered above | Honorable mention Science:Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex Orlando Science Center (map) User groups:See our Friends and neighbors page. Project places and labs:FAMiLab, a hackerspace in west Altamonte Springs. We have a temporary wiki-site up at http://familab.org/. If you are unfamiliar with the hackerspaces concept, we are a non-profit public organization structured to model a Direct Democracy with a small memberbase. Once a Hackerspace gets too large, it seems natural that they'd split to better serve the locations of the members. As they say in the hackerspaces community, "When there are fewer than 2 members per space, we know we have too many spaces. Otherwise, I wouldn't worry about it." It's partly the reclamation of corporate property, partly creating a safe-haven for socially-questionable but perfectly legal activities, partly a social club atmosphere to encourage hacking, and partly an attempt to legitimize and bring back the traditional Hacker Ethic to the world at large. Most geeks become familiar with the Hacker Ethic early in their lives, but it's short so worth repeating: Sounds kind of like a pre-school code-of-conduct, but, cmon, who didn't have fun in pre-school? The FAMiLab Open-Lab Hackerspace is having a meeting tomorrow at 8pm at our leased location at:
South Seminole Business & Storage And you are all welcome to attend. If you decide to come, you'll need a gate code, so when you get to the gate give me (tetsu) a call at 407-666-0933. Restaurants:Ethos Vegan Kitchen Caffe Positano Stardust Video and Coffee (map) (has free wi-fi) The Redlight Redlight (map) (for beer geeks) White Wolf Cafe (map) (review) Games, comics, sci-fi and collectibles:Sci-Fi City (map) (sci-fi, lan parties and RPG tables) ACME Superstore (comics and collectibles) Disney Quest (map) (gaming) Hard Knocks (map) (gaming - laser tag and live action) Coliseum of Comics Bad Apple Comics Ham radio and electronics:Skycraft Amateur Electronic Supply (AES) Acme Surplus Tech Surplus Depot (map) Barry Bobes and Associates Larry's Home for Wayward Test Equipment & Old Radios (tm) Radio Relics TNR Batteries Astrotoo surplus Entertainment and the arts:Enzian A full-time, non-for-profit alternative cinema. Plaza Cinema Cafe Aloma Cinema Grill Drive in theaters: http://www.driveintheater.com/list/florida.htm For art geeks: The Maitland Art Center Geo-caches, walking tours, metal detecting and odd locationsPerhaps a link to the local geocaches, always a neat distraction. Spook hill (map) Well not a great spot but it is the largest metal detector store in the area, Kellyco: http://www.kellycodetectors.com/indexmain.php Flea markets:Oh, one of the largest flea markets in the US, Webster Flea Market (unfortunately only once a month...) http://www.websterfleamarket.biz/ http://www.wftv.com/travelgetaways/17324371/detail.html Flea World Renningers Antiques & Farmers Market Gun ranges:Shoot Straight is the biggest but most expensive. Oakridge is small but uncrowded East Orange is kinda like Shoot Straight The Shooting Gallery (map) Rieg's There is also one out towards UCF near Goldenrod IIRC (could not find this one) Central Florida Rifle & Pistol Club Repair shops:Industrial Electronic Repair will fix laserdiscs Grocery:Woo Sung Oriental Food Mart map Tien Hung Complete Oriental Foods & Gifts map Stores not covered above:Neighborhood Cafe:
Biking: (for bike geeks)
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Music: (for music geeks)
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