I recently saw that Noisebridge hackerspace moved into a new space and it looks HUGE! If only I had more time to spend at Tokyo Hackerspace :(

Yesterday I attended the second Tokyo Hackerspace meeting. It was the first time I attended such the meetings which are being held weekly now. I have a feeling that more was talked about and decided last week but it was good to get an update on how things were going and what people were interested in with the hackerspace. I was told that more artists and creative folks attended the first meeting but this meeting seemed to have mostly web and hardware folks who were interested in joining the two worlds.

Another development was that Chris Wang (in red below) is working on a prototyping board made exclusively for the hackerspace. He wrote about the meeting on his blog. He also wrote about the boards themselves.

Me and a number of people are starting a new hackerspace in Tokyo. From the http://www.hackerspaces.org homepage:

Me and miwaza came up with the idea (well mostly miwaza) for starting up a hackerspace in Tokyo and miwaza took it upon herself to tell give a 2 minute talk and tell everyone that she thought we should create one. Many people thought it was a great idea and have started moving to get it created. Most hackerspaces have to do with hacking hardware but I thought that a hackerspace could pretty much be used for any kind of hacking. My personal thought was to make it kind of a place where artistic folks could come and make artwork as well. Art hacking if you will. Of course software also falls in this category. Anything having to do with "making things".

There is already a hackerspace in Tokyo called 4ncho5la6 (AnchorLab) which is fairly famous but it isn't an open communal space. It's currently run by 4 guys who run their own companies, but they do have events and create all kinds of nifty stuff which they open up to the public. They event wrote a blog about us. Here are some of 4ncho5la6's creations.

There will be a short lightning talk at the next Tokyo 2.0 on July 13th. so anyone interested is encouraged to attend and listen to the talk. We are also currently accepting members and trying to assess how to get started. Anyone interested should sign up for the mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/tokyohackerspace/ and also put your name at the bottom at http://www.tokyohackerspace.com/.

We are also having weekly meetings. The info about the next meeting can be found here. Look forward to seeing you at the next meeting!