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Voyage to the ATX Hackerspace in Austin, Texas (Video)

Posted by Roblimo on from the your-friendly-neighborhood-24-hour-a-day-hackerspace dept.

The place is big. It has lots of bats. And the people there not only make things, but play games and just plain hang out. Some are making a TARDIS they hope to take to Burning Man. Others are college student roboteers, working on their entry in a regional IEEE robotics contest. They're cutting, shaping, drilling, soldering, programming, talking, and generally having a great time. Timothy says they're Texas-friendly, too, so go ahead and stop on by if you're in the neighborhood. They're open 24/7, too, so whenever you have an urge to make something, ATX Hackerspace is ready to help you satisfy that urge.

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  1. Slightly misleading by OverlordQ · · Score: 4, Informative

    Timothy says they're Texas-friendly, too, so go ahead and stop on by if you're in the neighborhood. They're open 24/7, too, so whenever you have an urge to make something, ATX Hackerspace is ready to help you satisfy that urge.

    If you're a member, or it's an Open House. It's a $50/mo fee.

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    1. Re:Slightly misleading by DontLickJesus · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Texas friendly implies you may stop by for a visit and say "Hi", get a tour, that sort of thing. I find it doubtful they'd charge you just to check the place out.

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    2. Re:Slightly misleading by misterpib · · Score: 3, Informative

      I find it doubtful they'd charge you just to check the place out.

      Definitely not! The place is open to visitors most every evening. Any of the events on the calendar are open-house events: http://atxhackerspace.org/wiki/Calendar

  2. advice for a better video by SethJohnson · · Score: 2

    This could have been a much better video. Roblimo doesn't understand how to gather compelling content. Ughhh!

    He talked to the robotics engineer asking him all kinds of questions about stuff nobody is excited to learn about - "How many people are on your team at UT?" "Why doesn't the school let you use their laser cutter?" A better direction would have been to ask the guy how the laser cutter works and how the pieces it was processing would fit into the robot project. That was completely missing.

    Also, half the video was about some card game. Less than 1% of this video is about 'hacking' anything and 99.9% is about the social aspects of the ATX Hackerspace. This is a missed opportunity for Slashdot to create relevant content.

    If you are going to ask visitors to spend 11 minutes of their lives looking at your video, you better make it worth it. This isn't.

    Seth

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    1. Re:advice for a better video by Antipater · · Score: 2

      That's like complaining that a McDonald's commercial didn't show you how to grill a hamburger. It was a video about the hackerspace. If you want to learn about hacking, watch a video about hacking. Not about a place.

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  3. Re:Back in the day it was called a bakery by hackertourist · · Score: 2

    It's a machine shop that offers machining, electronics and computing services, it caters to hobbyists and focuses on sharing knowledge. "Machine shop" doesn't quite cover that.

  4. Great Place by Prien715 · · Score: 2

    There's also an TX/RX Hackerspace in Houston. They've got a bunch of fab equipment, an electron microscope, and a bunch of electrical engineering gear.

    Both these places have open houses (go in and say "Howdy;)"), and grats to the folks from there bringing their freaky deaky time machine home.

    (Pedantic: You can either say ATX Hackerspace, Hackerspace in Austin TX, or ATX (Austin TX) Hackerspace)

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