The government leadership in Shanghai wants to create a 100 “hackerspaces” in China with government sponsorship. They call them “innovation houses” to aid the young and bright builders. I think they might be onto something…Click here to read more…

Yo,If you guys remember, we had a hackathon on October 29th, 2011. It was a blast! There were a total of 44 teams of up to 4 registered. Over 12 hours of extreme hacking, some pretty sweet projects were developed. Here are some of the projects that were demoed: Fireshark – 1st place – FireShark lets [...]

There is going to be a hackathon on November 5th, 2011 in the basement of Huang (the SVI Hackspace) from 10AM to 10PM. To register teams of four or less email acm-officers[at]lists.stanford.edu. THERE ARE AWESOME PRIZES and FREE FOOD. Poster is attached below.

Mitch Altman, the founder of Noisebridge, a hackerspace in San Francisco talked a little about the general ideas behind hackerspaces. It’s really cool to see all the amazing things that are happening there. At SVI, we are looking forward to the day where we can allow such interdisciplinary hacking to take place. Who knows? Maybe, [...]

Our last Hackathon at the SVI Hackspace was sponsored by Box.net. First, a big thank you for helping us make the hackathon happen! With a  Box.net API expert on hand, hackers set out to build awesome applications with Box.net’s API. An awesome example of what came out of this hackathon is a hack done by [...]