Makerspaces

Crafters, Hackers, and Hackerspaces

Crafters, Hackers, and Hackerspaces

Where visions of crafting often conjure up images of glue guns, popsicle sticks, fabric and looms, hacking evokes soldering irons, microprocessors, and software. Truth is, there’s a lot of similarities between hacking and crafting, and even more to be gained from a dialogue between both groups of makers. Both hackers and crafters feel the same need to create things and manipulate materials, and have very similar basic requirements: access to equipment, space to work, and a supportive community within which to grow and share projects and ideas.

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Workshop Weekend, Call for Makers/Teachers

Workshop Weekend, Call for Makers/Teachers

After every Maker Faire, there’s always a general cry for more, MORE! How do we continue the hands-on, inspired spirit of the Faires beyond the actual events? After this year’s Maker Faire Bay Area, a follow-up Workshop Weekend was held, in various locations around the Bay Area. The idea was to take the enthusiasm of the Faire and port it into a more focused two-day learning event.

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Global SpaceCamp and Call for Venue

This first global SpaceCamp will bring together people from all over the world (okay, mostly North America until our budget is better) for a focused 2-day event. We will all learn from each other’s victories and mistakes, design new patterns for our space processes, and walk away from the event with deeper ways to interact with each other.

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Project Byzantium Aims to Avoid Internet Outages

Project Byzantium Aims to Avoid Internet Outages

At Washington, DC’s hackerspace, HacDC, a team led by the enigmatic “Doctor” seeks to develop a simple system for quickly deploying an ad-hoc internet in the event of internet outages. With all of the recent disasters (both natural and human) which have severed access to the net when it is most needed, groups all over the world have been developing solutions which allow alternate internets to be brought up quickly and effectively.

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Hackerspace Happenings: “Hackerspaces in Space” Goes Kickstarter

Hackerspace Happenings: “Hackerspaces in Space” Goes Kickstarter

Are you a hackerspace member with an event you’d like to publicize? Send it to johnb@mzinestage.wpengine.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) Tuesday(i)s(h). Hackerspaces in Space: A Kickstarter Project Let’s inspire the world and young future scientists with […]

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