Hackerspace
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hackerspace (RaumZeitLabor) A hackerspace (also referred to as a hacklab, hackspace, or makerspace) is a community-operated, often not-for-profit workspace where people with common interests, such as computers, machining, technology, science, digital art, or electronic art, can meet, socialize, and collaborate. Hackerspaces are comparable to other community-operated spaces with similar aims and structures, such as Fab Labs, men's sheds, and some commercial makerspaces.
hackerspace (RaumZeitLabor)]] A hackerspace (also referred to as a hacklab, hackspace, or makerspace) is a community-operated, often not-for-profit workspace where people with common interests, such as computers, machining, technology, science, digital art, or electronic art, can meet, socialize, and collaborate. Hackerspaces are comparable to other community-operated spaces with similar aims and structures, such as Fab Labs, men's sheds, and some commercial makerspaces.
Notable hackerspaces
A directory of hackerspaces is maintained at the Hackerspaces.org wiki. Over the years, many hackerspaces have grown significantly in membership, operational budgets, and local media attention. Many have also helped establish other hackerspaces in nearby locations. c-base (1995) from Berlin is recognized as one of the first independent hackerspaces in the world, not affiliated with a school, university, or company. Wired writes that "European groups, particularly in Germany, have a long tradition of this kind of activity". Another known German hackerspace is RaumZeitLabor, organizer of Trollcon. The Geek Group, formed in 19941, was a nonprofit hackerspace in Grand Rapids, Michigan that had a large following and internet presence. There were various chapters around the United States. Their main focus was as an open source hackerspace to increase STEM education accessibility and one day become an accredited institution of higher education. The organization dissolved in 2018. Metalab, founded in 20061, is generally considered to have pioneered the funding principles that enabled rapid spread of the concept. TechShop was the first chain of commercial hackerspaces. It was launched in October 2006. , there were six TechShop locations in the US: three in California and one each in North Carolina, Michigan, and Texas, the last a partnership with the Lowe's home improvement chain. , the company had declared bankruptcy, with plans for reorganization or liquidation to be announced. In August 2007, a group of North American hackers visited Europe "to get a sense for the potential of European 'hacker spaces'"; upon their return, the groups NYC Resistor and HacDC were set up in late 2007, with Noisebridge following in fall 2008. RevSpace is a Dutch hackerspace founded in 20091. A regular of its IRC channel perpetrated a DDoS attack on VISA and MasterCard in 20101. Dallas Makerspace (DMS) was founded by members of the Dallas Personal Robotics Group (DPRG) in 2010. As of summer of 2017, it has a paying membership base of 1500, "making it one of the largest, if not the largest, nonprofit, volunteer-run makerspaces in the country" according to Dallas Morning News. The first Chinese hackerspace Xinchejian was established in Shanghai in the fall of 2010. Thereafter hackerspaces have grown in numerous cities including Beijing, Shenzhen, Ningbo, Hangzhou and Guangzhou. Chinese makers became internationally visible when the first Maker Carnival was hosted in Beijing in 2012. Columbus Idea Foundry moved into a 65,000-square-foot factory in Columbus Ohio on May 22, 2014. By one account, it is "the country's largest such space". NASA's Ames Research Center Rapid Prototyping Lab was developed as the first open makerspace within the US Federal Government. It has trained thousands of Federal employees on emerging rapid-prototyping equipment. According to Wired magazine, Artisan's Asylum (Somerville, Massachusetts), was believed to be the largest makerspace in the world in 2012. Verstehbahnhof in Fürstenberg (Havel) station is an example of a makerspace in a rural German town with a declining population. Daniel Domscheit-Berg is one of the principal contributors to this space.
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