London Hackspace

London Hackspace (abbreviated LHS) is a non–profit hackerspace in London, UK, established in 2009.^[1] Originally located in Islington, it moved to Hoxton in July 2010,^[2][3] and later to Wembley. In 2012, it was the largest hackerspace in the United Kingdom by membership, with over 1000 paying members.^[4][5]

London Hackspace

The London Hackspace workshop
Formation	2009
Purpose	Hacking, DIY
Location	United Kingdom
Origin	London
Founders	Russ Garrett, Jonty Wareing
Website	Homepage, Wiki

Founding

The group held its first meeting at Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese on 10 February 2009.^[6]

Organisational status

London Hackspace became the world's first virtualised non–profit corporation on 27 July 2011, when the members at the AGM voted to use the OneClickOrgs platform to carry out all the procedures of the board of directors.^[7]

Facilities

London hackspace has a wide variety of facilities split across two floors and a large car park, including equipment for electronics, 3D printing,^[8] craft, laser cutting, woodwork, metalwork, biology, amateur radio, robotics, and many other things. An incomplete list of equipment can be found on their wiki.

Projects

A soldering workshop at the Hackspace

• At Maker Faire 2011, members combined an Xbox Kinect and a pair of Tesla Coils to make an Evil Genius Simulator.^[9][10]
• The Nanode,^[11] a networked Arduino clone^[12] was developed at the space.^[13]

Workshops & events

London Hackspace hosts regular workshops for Biohacking, Lockpicking, Amateur radio and Hacking on OneClickOrgs. Additional irregular workshops cover Arduino programming,^[14] Python programming and OpenStreetMap mapping.^[15]

There is also a regular Tuesday night social event.