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 The London Hackspace workshop | |
| Formation | 2009 |
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| Purpose | Hacking, DIY |
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Origin | London |
Founders | Russ Garrett, Jonty Wareing |
| Website | Homepage, Wiki |
London Hackspace (abbreviated LHS) is a non-profit hackerspace in London, UK, established in 2009. [1] Originally located in Islington, it moved to Hoxton in July 2010, [2] [3] and later to Wembley. In 2012, it was the largest hackerspace in the United Kingdom by membership, with over 1000 paying members. [4] [5]
The group held its first meeting at Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese on 10 February 2009. [6]
London Hackspace became the world's first virtualised non-profit corporation on 27 July 2011 when the members at the AGM voted to use the OneClickOrgs platform to carry out all the procedures of the board of directors. [7]
London hackspace has a wide variety of facilities split across two floors and a large car park, including equipment for electronics, 3D printing, [8] craft, laser cutting, woodwork, metalwork, biology, amateur radio, robotics, and many other things. An incomplete list of equipment can be found on their wiki.
London Hackspace hosts regular workshops for Biohacking, Lockpicking, Amateur radio and Hacking on OneClickOrgs. Additional irregular workshops cover Arduino programming, [14] Python programming and OpenStreetMap mapping. [15]
There is also a regular Tuesday night social event.
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