HAR: Hackerspaces Everywhere by Esther Schneeweisz
So what is a hackerspace? “Desperate collaboration, rats and cooking with high voltage electricity”.
Esther started her presentation by showing a hackerspaces video. Which explained that hackerspaces are groups of people who are into hardware hacking and try to figure out how technology stuff works, and what you can make from basically whatever?
Projects are maily hardware hacking, hardware reverse engineering, software development and art projects. They started in 1981.
Member of hackerspace are not just there to put together cool blinky shiny things, although this is an important thing, but they also came there to share their minds and ideas.
There is even a website with “Hacker Spaces Design Patterns”, it is “not a cookbook”. Currently there are 340 hackerspaces around the world.
For more info see http://hackerspaces.org
hackerspaces.org
Joe, you are right. I have updated the post. Also thanks for Rob for pointing out the same error.