Makerspace

Noisebridge Hackerspace. Image by Scott Beale / Laughing Squid.

A makerspace (also known as a hackerspace, hackspace, hacklab, or creative space) is a community operated place where people can work on projects. These projects benefit from sharing tools, space and the cross-fertilization of ideas.

Makerspaces Worldwide

Hackerspaces.org has a very complete, community maintained, listing of makerspaces. Hackspace.org.uk has a listing of UK based makerspaces. Some examples from Wikipedia:Hackerspace include:

  • Bucketworks in Milwaukee
  • c-base in Berlin
  • The Cowtown Computer Congress in Kansas City
  • Kiberpipa in Ljubljana
  • HacDC in Washington, DC[1]
  • Hacker Dojo in Mountain View
  • Metalab in Vienna
  • Noisebridge in San Francisco[2]
  • NYC Resistor in New York City
  • Pumping Station One in Chicago
  • TOG (hackerspace) in Dublin[3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Musgrove, Mike. Where tinkerers take control of technology. The Washington Post. April 19, 2009.
  2. ↑ Tweney, Dylan. DIY Freaks Flock to 'Hacker Spaces' Worldwide. Wired Magazine. March 29, 2009.
  3. ↑ Antonelli, Lenny and Walsh, Jason. Hackers seek physical space outside the virtual world. The Irish Times Fri 04 Apr 2009.

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