Comments on: The Dream: A Hackerspace

By: Akiba

Akiba — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 02:03:44 +0000

Take the tutorials very seriously. Biggest issue with startup is finances. You’ll definitely need a buffer, preferably about 6 months. Good equipment is also hard to come by as you start up but will eventually come. If you have any questions, feel free to email me or post on the Tokyo Hackerspace forums. We have plenty of people that can give advice on what not to do. We’ve made almost every mistake in the book and are still surviving.

Akiba
FreakLabs Open Source Zigbee Project
Tokyo Hackerspace

By: dean

dean — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 17:10:44 +0000

For $100 a month does it come with a PVC Pipe or a real toilet?
If theres a real toilet then sorry, im not interested….

By: matagin

matagin — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 06:33:57 +0000

Here’s that interview with cDc! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5cFV_0sahI

By: Susan

Susan — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 03:21:38 +0000

To everything, there is a season…and this, my love, is your one season to be the Fort Builder, maker of PVC pipe memories. : )

By: steelrat

steelrat — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:57:15 +0000

I think for right now this is a good dream.

Right now you have too many demands for your time (read children and family stuff). I am going to reference the nasty pirates night. Even meeting once a month has proven a challenge. Don’t get me wrong I love the idea I think in a couple of years this would be doable (for both of us), but for right now I think you would end up paying for (and worrying about the stuff you left there) and getting little use in return.

By: matagin

matagin — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:35:49 +0000

This would be the coolest thing on Earth! If I lived near you I so pitch in! My tech support job was sort of like that because we all would hang out after work and work on random projects. People would bring their home systems and work on them. All you can drink 2 liters of Mountain Dew! It was awesome. There was an episode of either The Computer Chronicles or NetCafe which interviewed members of Cult of the Dead Cow and they were in something like a hackerspace. To be able to hang out and hack away at old/retro computers and the latest gadgets and modern computers would be awesome. Fooling around with Linux too. Great idea!