ATX Hackerspace

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• The deal is sealed: ATX Hackerspace signed the lease on 1601 Rutherford Ln, Suite A200!!
• Join up, or Renew your membership for the month of August

Because of the summer heat, we're asking that if you're interested in coming to check out the space, to join our mailing list and post a message a day or so before coming over to ask someone to be your host. You can also check the IRC channel (#austinhackerspace on freenode)

Rutherford Office Hours

We will be meeting every Tuesday at our new Rutherford location! Click for more information about the Tuesday night Open House

Also, there are Stakeholders who may be able to meet you during their hours at the southern enDesign location:

EnDesign Office Hours

• Monday - Host: Jon Kelly , 7pm-11pm (check first!)
• Tuesday - Host: Mike Rich , 7pm-11pm (check first!)

1. Create an open community of hackers, artists, and open source/hardware enthusiasts to create, share, learn, and collaborate
2. Help spread knowledge to the larger community, especially in the areas of: technology, DIY, and security
3. Provide a space for creating, collaborations, workshops, and classes
4. Provide resources (hardware, tools, materials, access, knowledge) to members and the community
5. Assist other groups that share similar objectives
6. Seek to enable others, and others' projects; to help break down barriers; and to avoid erecting barriers

• Facebook group
• Google group
• Twitter
• IRC on Freenode, channel #austinhackerspace

After far too much talking and not enough doing, we've finally found a space to create some awesome projects. We have leased a new space!

We're primarily located at 1601 Rutherford Ln, Suite A200. The space is perfect for artists, designers, engineers, hackers, fabbers, scientists, musicians, seminars and workshops, coworking, and a ton of other stuff. Anything that needs a space, involves loud equipment, messy equipment (woodworking, soldering/welding, painting), power equipment (120V, 240V, and 3-phase power available), or ventilation for fumes (etching, spray painting, varnish, etc).

More importantly, we're looking to establish a community. There are lots of different groups in Austin, and friends meeting at coffee shops, bars, and homes. If we combine skills, knowledge, ideas, tools, and materials, just imagine the massive projects that could be undertaken! Even if you're not into any of this, but want to learn, there will be some very smart and fun people around to help teach.

Memberships are available at various levels. Please see our membership page for more info.

Pop onto our build-out page and see if there is anything on there you might be able to donate to the space. We also accept cash donations, and barter for projects and other things.

Right now, there's a lot of value in helping with building and cleaning up the space. Really, it's just a lot of physical (but fun!) labor to get the space ready for use.

There's also a lot of value in getting the word out, starting up discussions here or in the IRC channel, adding to the wiki, suggesting projects and ideas, etc.

The space already has:

• welder
• power tools
• rolling door
• conference room, and a large workshop floor
• various electrical configurations with individual breakers
• lockable storage spaces

Additionally it will have:

• general purpose tools (hammers, screwdrivers, etc)
• smaller woodworking tools
• a server rack, possibly providing access to VMs and a hackable “sandbox”
• electronics workbench and soldering/prototyping tools
• Lathes, 3D printer, Laser Cutter, Milling Machine, and other tools.

You can see pictures of our space and projects on our Photo Gallery

People who make up ATX Hackerspace

Notes on hacking - Look here if you're looking for stuff that was taken off the main page