This month the Hacktory turns one! It has been a fun and exciting year. We've learned a lot and enjoyed finding out how many people share our enthusiasm for hacking and using technology in creative and new ways. We thank everyone that took our classes and made our existence meaningful and rewarding - we would not have made it this far without you! Saturdays would not have been as fun without the Open Hack crowd - thanks for your enthusiasm. We are also grateful to everyone else that has supported us in various ways (NTR, LINC Philadelphia, Fab@Home, IndyHall, Avencia, Geekadelphia, Tory Franklin, NO CARRIER, Animalstyle and many others).

We managed to do quite a few things in our first year, check out that list below!

Classes (over a 100 attendees total)
Intro to Arduino: Oct 3 2007, Jan 5 2008, Feb 23 2008, April 26 2008.
(special thanks to Josh Kopel, for starting the Arduino class and being the driving force behind the Hacktory at its inception)
EZ-LED: Nov 17, 2007.
max/msp/jitter: June 19, 2008.
Brain machine: May 10, 2008.
Kinetic sculpture: May 21, 2008.
Danger Shield: July 22-24, 2008.
GPS-A-Sketch: Sep 13 and 20, 2008.

Events
Geeks and Toys at National Mechanics: Aug 7, 2008.
Water Rockets and Hacking Meat: Aug 3, 2008.
Booth at The Last HOPE: July 17-20, 2008.
IgnitePhilly: July 11, 2008.
Valentine gift making class: Feb 2, 2008.

Website traffic
2300 visits/month.
7000 page views/month.
80 visits/day.
3 pages/visit.
70% new visits.