If you’re in the San Francisco Bay Area, you may have been surprised to have spied some your favorite maker orgs in a not so familiar place this weekend — billboards. That’s right, billboards. Conceived by Mitch Altman of Noisebridge as a way to draw awareness to the vibrant Bay Area maker community, and the awesome resources available to its makers, inventors, and educators, the “Invent” campaign hit the skylines of San Francisco and San Jose this week.
I’m live at Eyebeam in NYC right now, for Art Hack Weekend, a weekend-long hackathon that’s a collaboration between The Creators Project and Eyebeam. Over 70 people have registered to form teams to work on hacker projects. Some came prepared to join a team, while many have simply paired up with fellow hackers whose projects they thought they could contribute skills towards.
Another wonderful idea from Mitch Altman: Here is a 14-page download-and-print hackerspace passport you can carry on your travels to commemorate and advertise all the cool community workspaces you’ve visited.
Hackers on a Plane participants can skip the overland route to CCC Camp and fly directly to the to the campsite (conveniently located on an airbase) on an Antonov-2 for the elite price of 133.70 euros. The trip is an offshoot of Hackers on a Plane 7, the latest edition of a now-legendary flight that […]
LVL1 Hackerspace’s White Star Balloon team is going to be showing off the SpeedBall balloon system at MakerFaire Detroit, July 30 & 31 at The Henry Ford museum.
Imagine grown men and women racing souped-up Power Wheels and similar ride-on children’s toy cars. We’re talking about the Power Racing Series (PPPRS), a hackerspace-centric competition that tests makers’ machining and electronics acumen while encouraging style and moxie.
As I spoke to more makers, it started to become clear that Google+ Hangouts might just be the “next hackerspaces” — not in meat space but in the online world where skill sharing, project sharing, and collaboration can finally happen (more easily). There were are other ways to do this, but Google+ Hangouts seem to be the shiny new toy at the moment.
