Some say St. Louis is a real city because we finally have a grocery store downtown, but I say if you want to point to a single item that makes St. Louis a city, we’d pick the fact we are finally getting our very own Hackerspace!
What is a hakerspace? Jesus you’re a n00b. Ok, I’ll humor you.
A hackerspace is a basically a shared space were people can get together and work on projects, show what they know or find some help. Basically is a total geekfest, but in a cool way.
Here’s a video that might explain it better:
Ok, anyway, St. Louis is getting one and you can see it at their open house on August 19th, which is a week from today! Check out their site to get your geek on a feel sexy!
Update: The Arch Reactor guys also got a shout on the MAKE blog: http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/08/st_louis_hacker_space.html