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Ask HN: Advice for Starting a Hacker Space?

35 points pkdpic | 2 comments | 06 Jul 25 00:53 UTC | HN request time: 0.444s | source

Was very inspired by a hacker space on a trip to Seattle. In Sacramento CA where we used to have an amazing enormous space "Hacker Lab". We still have one but it's more crafts oriented which is fine but trying to think about a more computer-oriented one for kids specifically. Thinking about overhauling our garage to be a space for my kid's / kid's friend's little nascent computer club and feeling it out from there. Just wondering if people have any wisdom / advice.
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dv35z ◴[06 Jul 25 03:04 UTC] No.44477483[source]▶
This book is the "Gold standard" in starting a successful makerspace / hackerspace. Highly recommend. Covers tool organization, to staffing, to standard operation procedures, agile, entrepreneurship, funding and more.

Direct link: https://www.maker-works.com/operations-book

Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/Intentional-Makerspace-Operations-Dal...

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1. ykonstant ◴[06 Jul 25 08:31 UTC] No.44478891[source]▶
" Covers tool organization, to staffing, to standard operation procedures, agile, entrepreneurship, funding and more."

Oh, I must have misunderstood what hacker space means. I imagined a place full of gizmos to tinker with and hardware/firmware/software wizards doing all sorts of crazy coding and circuit-boarding stuff, like in the demo scene.

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2. pkdpic ◴[06 Jul 25 08:36 UTC] No.44478907[source]▶
I also am interested in the boundaries of the term. It seems pretty inclusive / flexible but I'm realizing it probably has more of a historical definition. Maybe this book covers that but would be curious if there's any other resources out there on covering the history / definition of the Hacker Space concept.