Travelling the continent’s hackerspaces over the years, I have visited quite a few spaces located in university towns. They share a depressingly common theme, of a community hackerspace full of former ...

The origins of Brooklyn’s latest well-funded startup are not what you’d expect. Founder Will Canine came to New York to participate in the anti-capitalist protest Occupy Wall Street. He got the idea ...

A couple of months ago I wrote a piece about the evolution of hackerspaces, and mentioned that I’d be attending a party for a hackerspace birthday. As I write this that party was last weekend, and it ...