Monthly Archives: December 2011

The Philadelphia Sculpture Gym was just featured in this piece by the Atlantic Cities. As you’ll read in the piece, the founders Darla and Justin are just about ready to move into a 7,500 square foot space in Fishtown – very exciting! As a makerspace specifically designed for artists we are excited to see the [...]

E-waste sucks. In the US we trash about 400 million electronic devices every year. A study published this summer says that soft circuits and e-textiles are on track to become an even more intractable waste problem, unless early adopters turn it into a green technology. An article in the Journal of Industrial Ecology from August [...]

Did you hear the story on hackerspaces in libraries on NPR this past Saturday? It’s a short piece, 4 minutes long, you can listen to it here. It talks about how libraries have been paying attention to the hackerspace movement, and are deciding to work together because both types of organizations are in “the business [...]

As we wrote earlier, the Philly Game Lab is having their first Game Scene meetup tonight at Barcade from 7-9 pm. Go ahead and skip our open house to head up there and show support for the new kid on Philly’s tech community block. They do ask that you kindly rsvp here.

The Hacktory is about to celebrate our 4th Anniversary, and we have been re-evaluating our mission and found that we are more committed than ever to build the organization into a stable, sustainable institution that provides opportunities to learn about and understand technology, and inspire you to use it creatively in whatever ways you can [...]

ISWC 2012 is the sixteenth annual International Symposium on Wearable Computers. This is an area we are really interested in, to experiment with what’s possible, but also, let’s face it, what’s cool. Unfortunately, a lot of “wearable computers” that we’ve seen so far are blinky lights on tacky tshirts. This symposium will cover some interesting [...]