Is the space open right now? - No

Umeå Hackerspace is closed.

Normal opening hours are:

The above opening hours are aspirational! Check the open status indicator here on the website before dropping by, since it's not guaranteed that anyone has arrived yet. Or just ask on IRC/XMPP.

There is a semi-frequently updated schedule with planned activities here: öppetschema.

We are also listed on spaceapi, which has phone apps available. Just search for "spaceapi" wherever you get your apps, install any one you like, then search for "Umeå Hackerspace".


Articles by tms

Lödkurs

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Nästa lördag den 12:e Oktober kl 13:00 så startar Umeå Hackerspace lödkurs! Det blir fyra lördagar totalt. Lär dig hur man löder kablar ordentligt, hur blyfri lödning och ytmontering fungerar, crimpning, avlödning med mera. Maila gärna in egna önskemål!

Pris: 500 kr för icke-medlemmar, 0 kr för medlemmar …

Trevlig UmeBSD-kväll

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Fem glada BSD-entusiaster samt fyra hackerspace-medlemmar (också glada!) besökte spacet igår.

IcePic håller föredrag

IcePic höll två föredrag. Ett om hur ELF binärer fungerar och allt som libc gör före och efter main() i ett typiskt program. Bland annat visar det sig att ldd kör ett program fram till just innan main(), vilket …

Årsmöte Umeå Hackerspace

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Kära medlemmar i Umeå Hackerspace!

Efter en tids uppehåll i verksamheten har vi nu ambitionen att försöka återuppta lite kreativ verksamhet för de teknikintresserade. :) För att åstadkomma detta behöver vi hålla årsmöte och välja in en ny styrelse. Ni är varmt välkomna till lokalen på Fabriksgatan 8 den 10:e …

Cleaning day #1

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Today we (tms, jonasbits, GINYFB and baader) sorted and packed stuff that had already been deemed trash and sent it to the great beyond. Some of the stuff was donated to Returbutiken.

There are still some more things to get rid of, like the old broken flatscreen TV, lots of …

Cleaning in progress

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Now that the pandemic is effectively over (or is it?) members have been returning to the space and noticed that lots of stuff has mysteriously accumulated over the last couple of years. Mostly in the form of cardboard moving boxes containing mysterious things. Luckily some members have been picking up …

Open status now logged

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The state of the space is now logged every time the open sign switch is flipped or whenever someone rings the doorbell. This state is published at https://umeahackerspace.se/opensignd_log.json. The format is a list of the spaceapi "state" field over time, like so:

{
 "states": [
  {
   "lastchange": 1662406258.92183 …

Cryptoparty w/ ACC

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Today we held a cryptoparty together with Academic Computer Club (ACC) at Origo. The event was attented by around 30 safety curious persons. Presentations were held, food was eaten and beer drunk.

Topics included threat modelling, encrypted chat, encrypted email, disk encryption, Tor, Spectre, Row hammer, etc.

One thing we …

Vanliga öppettider igen

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English version further down.

Nu när pandemin börjar lugna ner sig så har vi återgått till normala öppettider. Alla medlemmar och presumtiva medlemmar är välkomna! Även öppetstatusen på hemsidan och på IRC fungerar igen. Öppetskylten däremot måste fortfarande lagas.

English

Now that the pandemic is winding down we are returning …

RIP asbest

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Regular visitors may have noticed that this website has been down for a few days, as well as IRC still being down. This is because the server that has been running most of our services, asbest, died a few days ago after 18 years of operation. In honour of this …

The blog lives again!

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After three years of no one really caring about it, the blog is now alive again! Members can now edit it by cloning the www.git repository on asbest, editing then pushing the result back. Hooray!

Social uppe igen / social up again

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Vi ordnade problemen med servern för några dagar sedan / We fixed the problem with the server some days ago