A lot of making goes on in this community these days, but sometimes you’ve just gotta do some old fashioned hacking. You might have grabbed an old Speak and Spell that you want to repurpose ...

A hackerspace is a place that generally needs to be accessed by a wide group of people, often at weird and unusual hours.

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