c-base
c-base e.V. is a non-profit hackerspace founded by 17 members on 12 August 1995. Built around a long-running sci-fi narrative (the 'Raumstation' under Berlin), it pioneered the open hackerspace model years before the term was global.
One of the world's first independent hackerspaces; cult mythology of a crashed 4.5-billion-year-old space station under Berlin
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A member-run hackerspace in Podgórze where software and hardware people share tools and a room: electronics benches, 3D printers, soldering, embedded and IoT projects, plus plenty of pure-software hacking. The weekly Friday NightHack is open to anyone and free to attend; regulars pay small optional monthly dues (roughly 50 to 75 PLN) for a 24/7 key fob. No application and no vetting: you show up, you build, and you join if the room fits.
Volunteer-run, donation-funded hackerspace founded after Chaos Communication Camp 2007. Famous for its 'do-ocracy', open Tuesday meetings, and the slogan 'be excellent to each other'. Moved to 272 Capp Street in the Mission in 2020.
Founded 2006 by Paul Boehm and friends inspired by CCC and c-base. Generally credited as the funding/organizational template that triggered the global hackerspace explosion of 2007-2010.
Hacker collective formed on Halloween 2007 by Bre Pettis, George Shammas and friends after the 'Hackers on a Plane' Euro tour. Alongside Noisebridge, one of the seed US hackerspaces.
Non-profit hackerspace established at the Olde Cheshire Cheese pub on 10 February 2009. Multi-discipline shop with electronics, 3D printing, laser, woodwork, metalwork, textiles, amateur radio and bio.
Tokyo's flagship English-speaking hackerspace, started July 2009. Famous for the post-3/11 Safecast project, an open citizen-science radiation sensor network.