Kickstarted: Finding Space (and Making a Makerspace)
For many maker pros, finding the right amount of space can be difficult. One makerspace, Artisan’s Asylum, is offering a different model.
Hackerspaces
Sharing tools and expertise, for technical training and creative collaboration.
Hackert0wn: The World’s First Eco/Hacker Village?
As planned, Hackert0wn will be an entire hacker ecosystem complete with retail shops stocked with spare parts, sleeping pods, a gym that feeds power back into the building, a co-working space, private offices, a cafe with a coffee dispensing robot, a dumpling shop, an aquaponic farm that raises fish and produce for nearby residents and restaurants, and a state-of-the art CNC machine shop. Oh, and all the buildings will be built out of recycled shipping containers.
Ft. Worth Makers Gather, Organize
On Wednesday night, Ft. Worth, TX makers gathered together to discuss creating a local makerspace. MAKE’s Maker-in-Chief Sherry Huss happened to be in town, thanks to an unrelated business summit, and an impromptu meetup was organized at the Woodshed Smokehouse…
Calling All Ft. Worth Makers!
Calling all makers interested in setting up a local Makerspace and makers that have kits they’d like to show us. The MAKE team will be hosting a meetup tonight at 8pm (with food and beverage) at Woodshed Smokehouse.
Hackerspace Happenings for September 14
Are you a hackerspace member with an event you’d like to publicize? Send it to johnb@makezine.com or tweet me at @johnbaichtal and I’ll post it. Also feel free to subscribe to my hackerspaces Twitter list. Hackerspace Happenings runs weekly(ish). Designing with Electroluminescent Wire at HackPGH Join us at HackPittsburgh this Friday, where member Jet will […]
Hacker Scouts at Ace Monster Toys
Oakland’s AMT hackerspace spent last Sunday teaching kids about biospheres! Yesterday marked the inaugural Open Lab for our new adventure: Hacker Scouts. We had an amazing turnout with about 40 enthusiastic kids and their supportive parents! Our featured project was Biospheres, which half the kids decided to work on, while the other half chose activities […]
Do-It-Yourself Civilization in Hackerspace.gr
Sounds way cool! Coming Sunday, September the 2nd, we are going to take a look at the basics of life through the eye of the hexayurt project‘s creator Vinay Gupta that will visit hackerspace.gr. Hexayurt is an open hardware house built in hundreds every year. We will consider materials supply chain, reuse, grid beam, planning […]
