Any of you guys belong to hacking groups?

UncleRuckus · 6 Oct 2012 at 22:32

Just curious really, it seems there's one in my area and I'm considering membership.

Those of you who are members of such groups do you learn a lot of new skills? Is it useful for networking?

Mickey · 7 Oct 2012 at 23:47

Assuming you're talking about a Hackspace, then yes. They're good for meeting people with similar interests and learning more about anything you're interested in normally. Most have some form of open night, so go along and see what it's all about.

Psyoletic · 8 Oct 2012 at 00:58

I could tell you, but then I would have to hack you.

Dj_Jestar · 8 Oct 2012 at 09:20

Yes, several. They (mostly) all boil down to the same stuff though - geeks and beer, and not much else.

There is a lot to learn from them, and is a great way to learn about bleeding edge stuff. It's also a fantastic way to find decent jobs.

UncleRuckus · 8 Oct 2012 at 12:43

Excellent, Just what I was hoping for! It seems my local hackspace was held at a room in a local electronics company but due to them down sizing it is now being held in the back room of a pub.

Membership seems reasonable too at £5 a month for a "starving student" so I'll pay a bit more then that.

With my last Uni module we were given a modified Arduino board, I'm hoping they can help me reverse engineer it into a bluesnarfer and in return I'll try and help with programming problems.

Deleted member 77746 · 8 Oct 2012 at 18:54

I belong to the secret hacking group. Can't say much about it but I have your bank details and your whole live info infront of me.

Trento · 8 Oct 2012 at 21:42

Don't know where they are really.

Mickey · 8 Oct 2012 at 22:17

Trento said:
Don't know where they are really.

Here's a map for you

http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/List_of_Hacker_Spaces

geuben · 8 Oct 2012 at 22:24

I went to one in Sheffield with some uni friends whilst there. Went to one in London once, it was pretty cool but a little intimidating. I would really like to go regularly as I have no space at home to do anything more than fiddling with my Arduino and breadboards.

UncleRuckus · 9 Oct 2012 at 17:42

geuben said:
I went to one in Sheffield with some uni friends whilst there. Went to one in London once, it was pretty cool but a little intimidating. I would really like to go regularly as I have no space at home to do anything more than fiddling with my Arduino and breadboards.

Hah cool so what sort of projects where they working on?