diy - DIY & Electronics

>>1324
Depends on the space; hackerspaces are defined by the people who make them. In my city there's a space that specializes in woodshop, welding and 3-d printing; in another they primarily do nothing but web dev soykaf.

It can be a shitshow. All the 'good' hackerspaces are loosely defined collectives of tech-savvy folks; like the ones you see in Spain or Germany. "Makerspaces" are a pretty recent phenomenon that amounts to normie-tier going-ons. From the ones I've been to they're like babby's first hackerspace.

There was already a thread about this, but I can't find it. Maybe it was deleted already.

>>1324
i would like to go, but, There are none near me.

>>1325
I see.

In the city I live in there is only one, maybe two, but they don't seem to do advanced stuff, the people in there seem to join mostly for the social aspects of it. I don't see what could I do there I can't do it in my home (except for 3D printing), even I have better equipment and component bins and I'm just a hobbyist.
This, along with the "everyone can be included" policy seems to attract the most normie-tier people in the field and people with no previous experience, usually watering down the experience for more advanced diyers.
It seems the "diy" spirit is no longer about making things by your own, but rather to assemble prebuilt components and modules into something functional to give you a synthetic impression of accomplishment.
Also, makerspaces in the US seem to be too artsy and filled with bull soykaf .

I was thinking maybe I could start one as a business and fill it with those kind of people, just buy a dozen arduinos, a 3D printer, some tools and some components and you're good to go. Here almos nobody has heard of them, I'm pretty sure they will become popular at some point in the future.

>>1329

I had the exact same idea... I'm moving somewhere on the west coast next year. I'd like to set something up there.

I'll tell people here ofc.

My experiences with maker/hacker spaces in my city has been terrible. It's all this thirst surrounding startups... people view it as a giant networking opportunity.

I dropped by the one in my town, tucked away in the basement under a shopping plaza. From what I saw, the local focus was hardware, though I saw a whiteboard with a schedule of workshops for programming and webdev. I feel like I could learn a thing or two there, but there's a membership fee and I'm too busy with my last few semesters of university to spend enough time to be worth the money. Do hackerspaces usually have a sub fee?

>>1337
That sounds like a fun hackerspace! They should let in a 1337 one like you with no membership fee.

Sub fee? I know that a decent amount of them give university students a discounted membership price.

>>1337
A fee is pretty normal. They have to pay rent and electricity.

>>1343
>They should let in a 1337 one like you with no membership fee

mfw

But yeah there is a discounted student price. I may try it out if I survive this semester.

https://sudoroom.org

This looks great!