<div dir="ltr">Funny you should mention that. When I visited NB back in December to attend CHM, I didn't see anyone working on any projects either. There were a few people using the stove (those people didn't even look like hackers), a few people on laptops doing their own stuff, and some dude browsing facebook on the public computer there. I came before CHM because I needed some help on a little project I had with an op amp output that I didn't understand but after asking around, nobody really knew anything about op amps.<div>
<br></div><div style>I don't think hackerspaces should resemble a museum where people come to look at art and people's projects on display -- it's a place where people come and make stuff and meet other people who like making stuff. The Hacker Dojo has a robotics club that meets fairly regularly every other day around 7:30pm.</div>
<div style><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 1:05 AM, Robert "Finny" Merrill <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rfmerrill@berkeley.edu" target="_blank">rfmerrill@berkeley.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 12:41 AM, Dean Mao <<a href="mailto:dean.mao@hackerdojo.com">dean.mao@hackerdojo.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hey now, we just moved, hence no art on any walls. Also, we probably have<br>
> more soldering irons than NB. We have around 20 Weller 45 watt adjustables<br>
> and about 35 simple 30 watt irons. I guess you were either temporarily<br>
> blind or you didn't bother looking around.<br>
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</div>I visited you guys in like november or something. My point was not<br>
that there's a lack of tools for hardware stuff but simply the fact<br>
that nobody was doing it. The space felt kind of... I don't know how<br>
to put it. There wasn't much to do or look at if you didn't bring your<br>
laptop with you. It honestly felt more like a startup incubator than a<br>
hackerspace.<br>
</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>Dean Mao<br><a href="mailto:dean.mao@hackerdojo.com">dean.mao@hackerdojo.com</a><br>Come visit us, we love new people!<br><a href="http://www.hackerdojo.com">www.hackerdojo.com</a>
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