In the United States right now there are 56 people wanting to start a new hackerspace .
Build up your portfolio by developing apps or team-up with some people at your local hackerspace to contribute to a project.
"We haven't gotten there yet, " said Zuhair, acknowledging that the sort of game-changing innovations promised by the hackerspace movement were probably some way off.
My personal workshop will grow into an informal hackerspace in coming years as maker and inventor friends and family come over and we build stuff.
Another young hacker who underwent the procedure at Toorcamp said he hopes to install an RFID access system at the door of his local hackerspace.
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He acknowledges that his faith in the hackerspace concept has previously been described as "irrationally optimistic" -- but says that's a good fit for the city.
The self-taught roboticist has drawn inspiration from Honda's ASIMO robot and Drexel University's HUBO as well as sounding out opinion at his local hackerspace.
The truly powerful option, within Hackerspaces.org, when you search a country or city you get a list of people who want to start a hackerspace within a community.
On a recent trip to San Francisco, I met up with the team at Noisebridge, the hackerspace they work out of, to try the ears out for myself.
We drove Mitsubishi's i-MiEV EV around the Northwestern green mecca, stopping at some great PDX spots along the way, including the amazing Ground Kontrol arcade, Hand-Eye Supply and the hackerspace, Brain Silo.
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After drifting into disuse over the decades, that nondescript building, clearly public in nature, has officially reopened as the Digital Harbor Tech Center, a community hackerspace and supplementary learning center for Baltimore City Public Schools.
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During a recent visit to the City by the Bay, we popped into the TechShop hackerspace and were introduced to Max Gunawan, the designer behind Lumio (not to be confused with a certain smartphone line of similar name).
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Beirut's hackerspace has conducted experiments with clay and cryptography, and while Baghdad's experimental makers are a long way from solving the city's notorious traffic issues, Zuhair is proposing a simple intervention to make it more tolerable: Starting a podcast to entertain gridlocked commuters.
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