Open Source Creativity - Hackerspaces: Science on the SPOT

Inspired in part by the open source movement, public spaces are emerging where people congregate to share ideas, make cool projects, teach, and brainstorm with collaborators on everything from coding to cooking. With no leaders, they have one rule: "Be excellent to each other." Take a tour of the hackerspace Noisebridge, located in the heart of San Francisco's Mission District, with co-founder Mitch Altman.

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[Chris Meyer]

Check out hackerspaces (dot) org to find a space in your community.

[cldupont]

I have a 5,500sf building in the East Bay (Richmond; on the main st, MacDonald Ave) that is getting fixed up; been empty for many years. Hmmm, anyone interest in helping create another HackerSpace? Cldupont at gmail dot...

[dpowerfool]

What happened? Did you have any replies? :) Good luck doing it! Post your website when you have one!

[mitch altman]

Noisebridge is for people of all skill levels.  You are welcome to come to Noisebridge.

[seal3081]

I'll try and spend 20 min every day doing this.

Hopefully, i'll get something out of it.

Thanks

[LCmusicBlog]

find something, anything. take it apart. look inside. now figure out how it works. look everything up. start getting ideas. take other stuff apart. now you're beyond getting started, you will go from no ideas, to having too many ideas, and trying to decide which to do first. Keep in mind, almost all information that exists, is on the internet. Just start looking, and you will learn as you go! I think that's what most people do, who end up hacking things apart and whatnot. learn every day.

[seal3081]

i don't know anything about hacking.

Except for some simple java programming and html

But i want to learn.

Is this a good place for people to learn.

Or is this only for those who are experienced?

Thanks

[jag9998]

Well... I live in Mobile, AL. I'm 357 miles from one in Huntsville, AL and 360 miles from one in Rome, GA. Decisions, decisions...

Guess I gotta start my own.

[Robert Meutsch]

org



[Robert Meutsch]

very cool we have a makerspace (hacker was considered too controversial) in buffalo- check out buffalolab.