Welcome Former Techshop Members

Noisebridge welcomes former techshop members!

Former techshop members, The sudden closure of techshop is a great blow to the maker community,

but don't despair - there are other options!

Noisebridge welcomes you to come and hack with us!

We're significantly different from techshop though: We are a :

• nonprofit,
• community run
• do-ocratic

hackerspace,

instead of a:

• corporate,
• bureaucratic
• for profit
• gym-model

makerspace.

Important differences here:

• At Noisebridge, we are all responsible for upkeep of the space.
  • There are no employees.
• We operate on a Do-ocracy, which is similar to a real-life wiki.
• Noisebridge is donation supported.
  • There aren't dues or monthly fees, but it's considered excellent to donate a bit when you come to cover our expenses
• We have one rule "Be excellent to each other". We also have a strict Anti-Harassment_Policy
• Noisebridge people tend to be friendly and talk to each other and resolve problems through communication
• No one at Noisebridge is entitled to be there, or to use any particular machine. You must cooperate with your fellow makers, and share.
  • You can't reserve time on machines and you're not entitled to have the machines to yourself.
• You don't need to take a class to use a machine, you can just walk up to it and use it (with the exception of the laser cutter),
  • However if you don't know how to use it safely, please ask for help and wait until someone can show you
  • Laser cutter has a training required to use it. You can find trainings on our meetup page, or come to the space and ask around.
• If a machine breaks, there are no employees to fix it - we'll have to figure it out ourselves. Try to fix it and enlist help if you can't.
• You can be asked to leave Noisebridge at any time if you're being un-excellent. You're expected to leave without protest.
• You can also ask others to leave if they are being unexcellent - this is how we maintain a safe-space.

Overall, it's a pretty different model, but it's amazing to see it work.

We don't work in theory - just in practice. :-)

Come by and visit us!

Here's how to get in!

Here's our events (also check the meetup)

Here's a (probably incomplete) list of the equipment we have

Here's how to host an event with us

Our Manual, a guide to more topics

Our Vision