Ballarat Hackerspace is a community accessible physical place, where people share their interests in tinkering with technology, meet like minded people, work on their projects and learn from each other. Our basic belief is if you can’t fix it, you don’t own it. We want to teach people the skills they need to feel comfortable fixing or upcycling their own belongings. They have been operating since 2014 and exist purely from workshop membership fees and their generous corporate sponsors. Their committee members volunteer their time to keep the Hackerspace open and to run workshops on topics such as 3D printing, Raspberry Pis and building your own quadcopters. Their hope is that they can find enough like minded supporters who want to promote STEM/STEAM such that they can scale up, run more frequent workshops, generate more content and devote more time towards opening the Hackerspace to the public and helping everyone with their projects and hacking needs. Isn’t Hacking illegal? The word hack has multiple meanings one of which is “an ingenious temporary solution to a problem.” Hacks are basically fixes to problems that aren’t pretty or expected to last a long time but they get you working. Nothing they do could be considered against the law and the only things they break are warranty seals or the occasional electronic component (and neither of those are illegal). Visit their website for more.
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