Posted in Visiting Hackers on Feb 17th, 2012
Dale Dougherty founder of Make Magazine and Maker Faire, and a partner in O’Reilly Media stopped by Dallas Makerspace last Wednesday to checkout our space and tell us about his vision of the future of Making. Dale was in Texas testifying at a court hearing in Tyler, Texas regarding Eolas Technologies and the over reaching patents they were trying to enforce. Luckily the 8 member jury in [...]
Posted in Visiting Hackers on Feb 9th, 2012
Marcin Jakubowski is known for his Open Source Ecology project and, in particular, the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS). The goal of GVCS is to create a set of 50 open source machines with which we can reboot civilization in a way that minimizes scarcity and planned obsolescence, reducing the cause of many of society’s [...]
Posted in Visiting Hackers on Nov 18th, 2011
Pieter Hintjens, of Brussels, Belgium, is the latest visiting hacker to spend some time at Dallas Makerspace. Pieter has stopped by for some of our regular weekly meetings and also gave a talk at our Software Freedom Day event back in September. In addition to being involved with the local hackerspace in Brussels, Pieter is [...]
Posted in Visiting Hackers on Aug 10th, 2011
Photo by Steevithak, CC BY-SA Our latest visiting hacker is Jonathan Berg (@JonathanBerg)of Paradygm Shyft in Fort Smith, Arkansas. Jonathan dropped by Dallas Makerspace on Thursday, 28 July for our public meeting. After the meeting, he got a full tour of our new space and Doug Emes created a personalized Dallas Makerspace keychain for him [...]
Posted in Visiting Hackers on Feb 18th, 2011
A contingent of hackers from OHM Space, a new hacker collective in Oklahoma City, recently visited Dallas Makerspace. Pictured above are Dylan Mackey (foreground) and Jason Freis (background) examining some hardware printed on our Makerbot. OHM Space is still in the formative stages. They wanted to check out a neighorboring hackerspace, ask questions, and share [...]
Posted in Visiting Hackers on Jan 12th, 2011
Our latest visiting hacker is Nate Bezanson, a founding member of i3 Detroit and early HacDC conspirator. That’s Nate on the right talking to our own Peter Smith in the above photo. During November, Nate stopped by Dallas Makerspace while in town on business. Members took the opportunity to ask lots of questions about i3 [...]
Posted in Visiting Hackers on Nov 11th, 2010
Gareth Edwards of Edinburgh Hacklab and Dorkbot Alba in Scotland is our latest international visiting hacker. He dropped by the Dallas Makerspace on Sunday (7 Nov) to check out our newly painted warehouse area and help us pull the plastic tarps off all our gear. Edinburgh Hacklab and Dorkbot have done projects similar to some [...]
Posted in Visiting Hackers on Sep 24th, 2010
Marc Bruyere from Tetalab, a hackerspace in Toulouse, France, was a guest of Dallas Makerspace during the past two weeks. Marc visited our September 16th and 23rd meetings and was also a guest speaker at our Dallas Software Freedom Day event. Marc got a chance to see the projects we’re working on and he shared [...]
Posted in Visiting Hackers on Aug 21st, 2010
Nick Farr and his Hackers on a Plane project made a stop at Dallas Makerspace on Thursday. Nick has been called the Johnny Appleseed of Hackerspaces and is well known for his talk at HOPE two years ago called “Your excuses are invalid” that has led to a plethora of new hackerspaces. Dallas Makerspace was [...]
