This week, Edinburgh Hacklab throws open its doors and invites you to its grand opening. The Hacklab is a new co-working space in Edinburgh for tinkerers, inventors, techies and other people who like to get creative and make stuff. And they’re looking for new members.
Housed off Leith Walk, the Hacklab offers tables, a workbench, soldering irons, wi-fi, and loads of kit and other materials to play with. For £30 per month, members can access the space 24/7. If you know a member, you can visit them at the Hacklab for free.
So far, Hacklab members include a number of people from the local chapter of Dorkbot, an organisation devoted to doing “strange things with electricity.” (As far as I can tell, they’re true to their word: here’s a MIDI retrofit of a 1890’s era, 16-foot pipe organ. I bet their kids have the best science fair projects.) Rumour has it that several people from companies in the School of Informatics are involved as well.
To find out more about Hacklab, tour the space, see cool projects—and dare I say, to get your party on—head to the Grand Opening this Friday from 19:00 – 21:00.
Are you a Hacklab member? Know anyone in Hacklab? Going to the Grand Opening? Tell us all about it in the comments below.
StartupCafe 
I love this – what a great idea.
It could actually be a great space for an Agency creative team to hang out for a day or two to soak up some different vibes.
I gave a brief talk on this: http://vimeo.com/14926887
The Guardian also covered Hacklab today: http://www.guardian.co.uk/edinburgh/2010/sep/16/blogpost
I’m joining! See you at the party!
Fun night last night, very well done to HackLab folks, looking awesome!
I think we need more places like this, especially ones aimed more at younger people like students etc.
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