Hackerspaces: Hubs For Tech-Minded Do-Gooders?

Following the recent disaster in Japan, the Tokyo Hackerspace –an open community space where hackers get together to play with hardware (among other things)–channeled its hive mind not into its usual playing with lasers and forgetting to shower, but rather into helping the country recover from earthquake and nuclear-related woes. The Tokyo Hackerspace’s most high-profile project is its NETRAD geiger shield, an open-source geiger counter shield that detects local radiation levels. Eventually, the hackerspace hopes to expand its sensor network to the Fukushima region

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Hackerspaces: Hubs For Tech-Minded Do-Gooders?