Hackerspace
A hackerspace or hackspace (from Hacker and Space, sometimes referred to as a makerspace in reference to Make Magazine.) is a real (as opposed to virtual) place where people with common interests, usually in science, technology, or digital or electronic art can meet, socialise and collaborate. A hackerspace can be viewed as an open community lab, workbench, machine shop, workshop and/or studio where people of diverse backgrounds can come together to share resources and knowledge to build/make things.
Typical activities in hackspaces include
- learning and sharing knowledge
- presentations and lectures
- social activities including games and parties
- work on individual or team projects
Hackspaces provide the infrastructure needed for these activities: rooms, food and drinks, power, servers and networking with internet-connectivity, audio equipment, video projectors, game consoles and various tools.
What can be done in a hackerspace include
What can be done is limited to the tools that are available to the specific hackerspace. As hackerspaces around the world grow in membership and in tool capacity, the capabilities of hackerspaces will grow.
- Work on small DIYer projects
- develop new and ongoing Open source hardware projects
- Work on personal and team inventions
- Work on art projects such as kinetic art
- game and Computer animation development
Funding Sources
Membership fees are usually the main income of a hackerspace, some also accept external sponsors.
Example Hackerspaces
Some examples of hackerspaces are:
- The Cowtown Computer Congress in Kansas City
- Pumping Station: One in Chicago
- the Chaos Computer Club (such as C4 in Cologne)
- the c-base in Berlin
- the Metalab in Vienna
- TOG in Dublin
- HacDC in Washington DC
- NYC Resistor in New York City
- Noisebridge in San Francisco
- HackerDojo in Mountain View, California
- Cyberpipe in Ljubljana,
- Bucketworks in Milwaukee, WI
References
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- People Doing Strange Things With Soldering Irons: A Visit to Hackerspace | Xconomy May 22, 2009
- Hackers seek physical space outside the virtual world - The Irish Times - Fri, Apr 10, 2009
- Hackers need space to innovate - The Irish Times - Fri, Oct 24, 2008
- DIY Gadgetry - BBC News - June 19, 2009
- - Le Monde - July 2009
- DIY Freaks - Wired - March 29, 2009
- Template:De icon Heime für Hacker - Zeit - Jan 17, 2009
- Template:De icon Geschichte des CCC in Köln - June 26, 2009 [1]
- Where tinkerers take control of technology - Washington Post - April 19, 2009
External links
- Hackerspaces.org
- The Hackspace Foundation
- fizzPOP
- Template:De icon Chaos Computer Club Cologne e.V., http://koeln.ccc.de/index.xml [2]
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