Hackerspaces

You are floating above the Earth in Cyberspace, looking down at the glowing points of light that constitute human civilization and the myriad beacons marking hackerspaces in cities across the globe. EXITS: Bay Area Consortium of Hackerspaces >

Hackerspaces are a global and local movement which Noisebridge is a part of. There are thousands of active hackerspaces listed worldwide and here in the Bay Area and you can visit hackerspaces in every corner of the globe!

The global map of hackerspaces dots the world with creative communities.

Bay Area Hackerspaces Consortium map of hacker/maker spaces in the Bay Area.

Resources

• hackerspaces.org - a global gathering of Hacker Spaces.
• Building a Hacker Space - Great advice from the CCC

  There has been a related talk on the 24c3:
  Goto CCC Conference Recordings 2007 and select the talk 2133 from one of the listed servers in the Audio Recording Section, i.e. this one

• International Hackerspaces we were inspired by:
  • Metalab (Vienna, Austria)
  • C-Base (Berlin, Germany)

Some other hackerspaces

The complete list of active hackerspaces has thousands more! Here's a list of some spaces we're familiar with:

• US
  • California
    • BACH: Bay Area Consortium of Hackerspaces network of affiliated hacker and maker orgs in the Bay.
      • San Francisco
        • Noisebridge (San Francisco, CA)
        • Queerious Labs (San Francisco, CA)
        • Humanmade (San Francisco, CA)
        • Frontier Tower (San Francisco, CA)
      • East Bay
        • Sudoroom (Oakland, CA)
        • Ace Monster Toys (Oakland, CA)
        • CircuitLaunch: Electronics & Robotics-focused space. (Oakland, CA)
        • Sun Gallery Makerspace (Hayward, CA)
      • South Bay
        • HackerDojo (Mountain View, CA)
        • Technical_Underground (San Jose, CA)
        • MakeX Palo Alto (Palo Alto, CA)
        • Pawprint Prototyping (Santa Clara, CA)
        • Maker Nexus (Sunnyvale, CA)
      • North Bay
        • Benicia Makerspace (Benicia, CA)
    • Southern California
      • Santa Barbara Hackerspace (Santa Barbara, CA)
      • Los Angeles
        • Crashspace (Los Angeles, CA)
        • nullspace labs (Los Angeles, CA)
  • US Outside California
    • Jigsaw Renaissance (Seattle, WA)
    • Metrix createspace (Seattle, WA)
    • NYC Resistor (New York City, NY)
    • The Hacktory (Philadelphia, PA)
    • DC401 (Providence, RI)
    • HacDC (Washington, DC)
    • CCCKC (Kansas City, MO)
    • Makers Local 256 (Huntsville, AL)
    • Freeside Atlanta (Atlanta, GA)
    • Asmbly (Austin, TX)
    • TX/RX Labs (Houston, TX)
    • 801Labs (Salt Lake City, UT)
    • JaxHax Makerspace (Jacksonville, FL)
• Canada
  • VancouverHackerSpace (Vancouver, BC)
  • Zen Launchpad (Vancouver, BC)
  • Edmonton New Technology Society (Edmonton, AB)
• Germany
  • shackspace (Stuttgart, Germany)
  • bootlab (Berlin, Germany)
  • CCC München (Munich, Germany)
  • Netzladen (Bonn, Germany)
  • RaumZeitLabor (Mannheim, Germany)
  • CCCHB (Bremen, Germany)
• France
  • Artilect (Toulouse, France)
  • tmplab (Paris, France)
• Japan
  • tokyohackerspace (Tokyo, Japan)
• Singapore
  • HackerspaceSG (Singapore)