Introduction to general structure of hackerspaces, maker and hacker movement and base-istanbul hackerspace

1. Mahmut Demir 05.11.2012
@ Sabancı University

3. •Hacker (term), a term used in computing for several types of
person
•Hacker (computer security)
•Hacker (hobbyist)
•Hacker (programmer subculture)

4. What is a Hacker?
•Maker
•Geek
•Coder
•Crafter
Mitch Altman, Noisebridge, July-2011
•Nerd
•Artist
and Hacker

5. Adam Savage
“Engineering w/o making anything”
“Why we build ?”
- Joy behind of creation
“make what you want to have”
- Chose a project
- Ask questions
- Start somehow!

6. Interesting
Solutions

7. Interesting BaseIstanbul Hackerspace, 201
Solutions

8. NoiseBridge Hackerspace
What is Hackerspace?

9. What is Hackerspace?
“It’s almost a
Fight Club for
nerds”
Says Nick Bilton of his hacker
space,
NYC Resistor in Brooklyn
Courtesy of Bre Pettis

10. What is a Hackerspace?
• Community
• Collaboration
• Inspire
•
BaseIstanbul Hackerspace’11
Learn
• Teach

11. What is a Hackerspace?
• Part of growing movement
• Share
• Hangout
• Eat
Tokyo Hackerspapce

12. HackerSpaces Provide:
• A physical space
Noisebridge’s members, Noisebridge Hackerspace
– Electricity
– Internet
– Comfortable
Table and Seat

13. HackerSpaces Provide:
Soldering irons at the main workbench at Noisebridge
• Tools and machinery
• Power Supplies
• Measurement Units
(Multimeter, Oscilloscope...)
• Soldering stations
• PCB Manifacturing Eqp.
• CNC, Laser cutter
• 3D Printer

14. HackerSpaces Provide:
• Projector
• Game consoles
and TV
• Kitchen
HackLab Toronto/Canada

15. Organization?
• Totally Open / Invite only?
• Non-profit corp ?
• Rules ?

16. 1000+
Active hackerspace
Growing Movement

17. C-base Almanya
Seventeen people founded c-base e.
V. in the autumn of 1995.

18. HackLab Toronto/Canada

19. HackerSpacePP
Cambodia

20. Metalab
Vienna, Austria

21. Cairo HackerSpace
Egypt

22. Hive67
Philadelphia
ABD

23. Tokyohackerspace
Tokyo/Japan

24. London Hackspace
England

25. Turkey :) ?

26. Base İstanbul
Hackerspace
(İstanbul European Side)
Baseistanbul.org
İstanbul Hackerspace
(İstanbul Asian Side)
Istanbulhs.org

27. Base-Istanbul

30. Base

31. Base

32. BaseIstanbul Hackerspace’11 – Temperature and Light
Projects
intensity broadcaster project

33. Projects
BaseIstanbul Hackerspace’11 – Teleoperated robot base

34. Projects
Avea, AveaLabs’12 – SmartBox Proejct

35. Projects
BaseIstanbul Hackerspace’11 – LedCube Project

36. Projects
BaseIstanbul Hackerspace’11 – Handicraft Arduinos

37. Workshops
BaseIstanbul Hackerspace’12

38. Workshops
BaseIstanbul Hackerspace’12

39. SpaceApps Challenge

40. Media
SpaceApps Challenge’12
Istanbul Hackerspace Interview @ Bogazici University

41. Istanbul HackerSpace
Istanbul Hackerspace’12

42. Thanks!
Q&A?

43. Contact
Address: Ortabayır mahallesi. Mayıs
sokak. No:21C Gültepe / Istanbul–Turkey
E-mail: baseistanbul@gmail.com
Facebook: facebook.com/baseistanbul
Twitter: baseistanbul
Google-Groups e-mail list:
hackerspacetr@googlegroups.com