The old wiki can be found at http://wiki2.abbenay.org/
Abbenay Hackspace is a hackerspace located in Stockholm, Sweden. We want to build a haven for experimentation and creation where we can share our knowledge and tools, a place where we can explore, build and play with everything from reverse-engineering toys to wireless darknets to mechanized greenhouses.
We have meetings 18.00 each Wednesday at the office of UFS. Feel free to come! The address is Polhemsgatan 38 at Kungsholmen. The subway station Fridhemsplan is quite close. We usually eat dinner together on Wednesdays as well, email admin (at) abbenay.org if you want food.
The best way to reach us is by our mailing list. Some of us hang in our irc-channel #abbenay@chat.eu.freenode.net.
2011-02-21 One of the projects developed by fellow Abbenay hackers has now its own website! Visit it at http://www.magellanmachine.se
2011-01-05 We're having meetings every Wednesday as usual after a short Christmas break.
2010-09-03 Introducing the Abbenay Gallery @ http://gallery.abbenay.org
2010-09-01 Continuing to build the RepRaps?. This is really the first day we seriously build on it. Check out the new pictures!
2010-08-25 New wiki is now officially the default.
2010-08-18 We have finally received the plastic parts for our RepRaps?.
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Originally when I turned up to a hackerspace meeting I figured it would be geeks doing security hacking into computer networks. To my delight its nothing of the sort; instead it's hacking in the broad sense of "hacking away at something - anything".
Hackerspaces are a remedy to problem of large multinationals making stuff and keeping the hardware & software that runs it hidden and closed. In our "disposable society" i think everyone has had enough of things being:
Hackerspaces allow people to break away from their dependence on closed hardware. Instead we build hardware & software that is open, changeable and 90% of the time much cheaper. Because they are designed to be upgraded, they are also very environmentally friendly and don't need to be replaced, and don't need to end up on land fill as much. They create local and global knowledge and act as incubation areas for new commercial spins offs to the local market, and create jobs and innovation.
The term "hackerspace" is now a worldwide movement. They are literally in every capital city and smaller towns around the world. The open source movement happened in software, and everyone realized the potential to expand exponentially, instead of re-inventing the wheel every time (because its closed source). This is how civilizations expand. Language was the first "open source" thing we did because it allowed us to pass knowledge onto our offspring, instead of relearning everything each time we are born. Closed systems are evil because they force society back to the "reinventing the wheel level of advancement". Hackerspaces are about people empowering themselves to have choice and knowledge and independence from manufacturer lock-in. Hackerspaces are the next evolutionary step - Open source hardware and software.
Abbenay first meeting was held in the summer of 2009 at Café Edenborg. After that Abbenay hung out some time at squat called AK4 in Liljeholmen in Stockholm. In September 2009 Abbenay became a member organization of Young Scientists. This is basically a organizational hack which allow us to have meetings at their offices.
To read more about how we are organized go to Administrivia.
This wiki is running OddMuse. We are using the creole wikisyntax. To combat spam we've decided you need a password to edit the wiki. Just ask for it on the mailing list or irc.
If you know the password and want to edit a page then click on "This page is read only" and you'll come to a login page.