Ariane Coffin of GeekMom interviewed Mothership HackerMoms Samantha Matalone Cook and Sho Sho Smith. For the uninitiated, Mothership HackerMoms is the first hackerspace aimed directly at moms. GeekMom: What do you envision for this new space? Sho Sho: We just launched a Kickstarter fundraiser to get equipment, do some DIY construction, and develop our workshop […]
One of the founders of Fort Worth Makerspace, Robert Bradbury, wrote in to share their latest efforts:
Chris “Akiba” Wang of Freaklabs and Tokyo Hackerspace is the brother of Mothership HackerMoms co-founder Sho Sho Smith, and he’s offering a couple of cool kits from his online store to support HackerMoms’ Kickstarter campaign. All proceeds will go to the moms! The first kit is the FabTile, a daisy-chainable LED board based off of […]
I’m crossing the bridge to San Francisco tomorrow to meet with artist Phillip Ross, but I’m hoping to connect with another maker or two. Anyone got any ideas?
A reporter from Reuters visits a hackerspace and learns about the scene.
At HeatSync Labs in Mesa, AZ, I noticed an innovative approach for dealing with the stuff that members leave unattended in a makerspace. If members leave a project out on a table, they can be cited with a parking ticket by one of the board members.
Cool classes and other events around the hackerspace scene.
