#SpaceAPI

2025-06-13

Is there something like a spaceapi plasmoid for kde6?

Retoots welcome :)

#kde #plasma #spaceapi #hackspace #hackerspace

2024-10-24

This week I finally finished a project I've been working on for the last few weeks: A map, laser-engraved into a ca. 60x70 cm piece of plywood, showing the @spaceapi opening states of hackerspaces in central Europe using red/green LEDs. All of that in a nice wooden frame, now on the wall at @CCCBasel.

Details on the project can be found in our Wiki (in German): wiki.ccc-basel.ch/index.php/Sp
or in the git repository (in English): git.kabelsalat.ch/s3lph/spacea

#spaceapi #spacemap #map

A map of a part of Europe (predominantely DE, CH, AT, CZ, NL, BE, LU) laser-engraved into plywood, mounted in a wooden frame. There is a total of 83 LEDs in the map, each labeled with the name of a hackerspace in that location. The LEDs glow either green or red, depending on whether the corresponding hackerspace is currently open or closed.A detail view of a map laser-engraved into plywood, showing the area of Switzerland, south-western Germany and northeastern France. In the map there are multiple circular LEDs, each in a small black socket, glowing either green or red. Next to each LED there is the name of a hackerspace engraved into the wood. The colors of the LEDs indicate whether the corresponding LED is currently open or closed.The map viewed from the back, showing the PCBs and cabling. There are 9 small PCBs mounted to the wooden frame of the map at different locations. The PCBs are connected to each other, and each PCB connects to up to 10 LEDs. The first PCB in the bottom right additionally holds an ESP32 microcontroller, to which a USB cable is connected.
2024-05-22

RiiR! Im chaospott-rs Meetup haben wir gestern begonnen unsere @chaospott SpaceAPI in Rust neu zu implementieren. git.chaospott.de/Chaospott/cha #RiiR #spaceapi

Chaostreff Potsdamcccp@chaos.social
2024-02-21

Yo. Heute Abend #Chaostreff.
In der #SpaceAPI kann nachverfolgt werden, ab wann die #machBar offen ist (spoiler alert: spätestens ab 19:00):
spaceapi.ccc-p.org/
Kommt vorbei! :)

Jelle Haandrikmanjhaand@mas.to
2024-02-08

Updated the @hackerhotel Spacestate switch to the 2024 edition.

#spaceapi #spacestate #hackerhotel
hackerhotel.tdvenlo.nl/

2024-02-01

Das @OpenLabAugsburg sorgt für Uptime im Süden 😉

#openlab #spacemap #spaceapi

2023-10-04

Hallo ich bin ein #Bot welcher regelmäßig die #SpaceAPI des @c3d2 abruft und Änderung des Öffnungszustand tootet.

Bei Fragen oder Probleme bitte bei @n00b0ss melden.

dezentrale e. V.dezentrale@chaos.social
2023-08-17

#cccamp23 Programm heute für die @chaoszone

13⁰⁰ Die Welt der #SpaceAPI.s
13⁰⁰ LAN-Party #Mindustry
15⁰⁰ CPU Reverse Fixing mit Flex+Gaffa
17⁰⁰ #ChaosZone Awareness, CoC, UVE
17⁰⁰ Workshop Meals Ready to Eat

events.ccc.de/camp/2023/hub/ca

dezentrale e. V.dezentrale@chaos.social
2023-08-16

In der @chaoszone findet am Tag 2 um 13 Uhr ein Austausch über unsere #SpaceAPI|s statt. Kommt gern vorbei, stellt eure Implementierungen von eurem Space vor.

events.ccc.de/camp/2023/hub/ca

@spaceapi #cccamp23

2023-06-15

I work on a #Bot. It publishes the state of our #Hackerspace via #SpaceAPI. If it detects changes, it sends a message to #Mastodon. #Python #opensource

2023-06-15

Ich arbeite gerade an einem #Bot, der den Status vom #Hackerspace aus der #SpaceAPI bei Änderungen zu Mastodon überträgt. #Python #opensource

2023-03-30

@OpenLabAugsburg #spaceapi map

Mir ist gerade ein Projekt namens "opticalshow" auf Hackaday.io über den Weg gelaufen. Statt einzelnen LEDs , verwendet das Projekt Fiber und LED Matrix.

Link: hackaday.io/project/189963-opt

Chaostreff Potsdamcccp@chaos.social
2023-03-08

Die Statistik über die #SpaceApi [1] sagt: Zu 84% war im letzten Jahr mittwochs abends offen. In der Praxis dürfte die Zahl deutlich höher liegen, nur hat vermutlich jemand vergessen, den Schalter auf "offen" zu stellen :)

Zur Verbesserung der Quote gern heute Abend ab 19:00 zum #Chaostreff vorbei kommen!

[1] mapall.space/heatmap/show.php?

Heatmap, wann im Schnitt offen ist. Ein deutlicher grüner Fleck mittwochs Abends.
Jelle Haandrikmanjhaand@mas.to
2023-02-09

Look at what appeared on the hackerspaces.nl website. It looks like Hacker Hotel popped up.

Thnks @zeno4ever Working hard to make it green.
#hackerhotel #hackerspaces #spaceapi #spacestate

2022-12-27

Eine #spaceapi map. Nice. Weiße Spaces können gerade nicht über die directory-API gefunden werden. Blaue haben den status null/unknown. Jetzt an unserer Wand. :)

A printed and framed map on a posted. It shows a part of central europe with some logos of a random collection of hackerspaces with spaceapi. each logo is next to a controllable rgb led (in traditional case). at a white wall in the openlab augsburg
Aman Valley Makersammanvms@pix.toot.wales
2022-07-24
Finalizing the first IoT project of the #makerspace: the open/closed sign is posting the status to the #spaceAPI. https://github.com/AmmanVMS/space.api and to the app. All #opensource
2022-05-25

Es geht voran mit unserem #spaceapi-Schalter \o/

#Zwickau #KulturwebereiZwickau #Chaostreff
#Hackerspace #Makerspace @space_api@twitter.com

Werkraum Zittauwerkraum@chaos.social
2021-11-16
2021-06-18

Do You SpaceAPI?

Here at Hackaday we're privileged to be part of a global community of hackers, makers, technology enthusiasts and creative people whose collective works make our daily news feeds such a fascinating read. We encounter you all directly in the physical world rather the virtual one at the many events across the community, or at the various hackerspaces we visit on our travels. But how can we keep track of the world of hackerspaces when there are so many? Maybe SpaceAPI might hold the answer.

Many of the Hackaday staff are intimately involved with hackerspaces, whether as members, directors, or even founders. It's something I've said numerous times as I've shown prospective members around Oxford Hackspace or MK Makerspace, that decent sized towns and cities worldwide have hackerspaces, so within reason anywhere you are likely to step out of an airport there will be a bunch of us in a room full of tools and parts somewhere within range.

There's a Whole World Out There, If Only You Can Find It

The hackerspaces.org map of the world. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors

With so many hackerspaces in the world, it can be difficult to keep up with them all. It must certainly be a headache for the maintainers of hackerspace directories, with new arrivals as well as spaces sadly closing meaning that a directory can only be as current as its last update. For those of us who follow the world of hackerspaces professionally it's a struggle to keep on top of them all, and we know there will always be that amazing project posted on a hackerspace website that will pass us by.

An easy way to spot a space that's active is to look at its website or social media feeds. It's a pretty decent bet that since my space in Milton Keynes has a recent blog post, it's an active space and that (pandemic rules permitting) you'll be able to turn up on an open night and see the place (If you're visiting MK please do, and take in the National Museum of Computing while you're here!). But what about a space whose last activity was a year, or 18 months ago? Have they closed, or are they simply more concerned with running a space than updating their web site?

How SpaceAPI Can Help, And Why You Need It In Your Space

The RevSpace space state switch. Holly Hudson (CC BY 2.0).

Here's where SpaceAPI can help: by providing [a standard JSON interface](https://spaceapi.io/#schema) to the space properties. This holds not only all the static details such as location and contact details, but also the address of the space's project repository, and most interestingly an indication of whether or not the space is open. The JSON can be a static file, but in many spaces it's generated by the space itself depending on whether or not there is someone in it.

The first hackerspace to have a SpaceAPI endpoint was RevSpace in the Hague, Netherlands, and if you visit their website you'll see the current status as a banner on their logo. This and the status reported in their SpaceAPI endpoint is generated by a button in the space that operates their automation systems and turns everything on, the idea being that opening the space up and shutting it down is a single button press. I've stood in RevSpace and watched this happen, it's one of those living-in-the-future moments that I'm sad to admit leaves us behind a little back home in MK. Those of you who read Hackaday regularly may remember our reporting on the badge they created to mark their tenth birthday, it uses SpaceAPI data to great effect in mapping the spaces in the Netherlands as an array of LEDs.

The SpaceAPI maintainers also publish a directory, from which a variety of visualizations and other projects draw their data. As this is being written there are 179 hackerspaces on the list, mostly from Europe but with a few from further afield. If your space isn't on the list yet, I'd like to ask you to consider creating a SpaceAPI endpoint, and submitting it to the directory. Why should you do this? Discoverability is a key to success for a hackerspace, it means more potential members can find you and those with an interest in hackerspaces such as Hackaday scribes can as well. Finding a space exists and that it is active makes our day, and we think it can yours too.

Header image: RevSpace's Decennium badge, which uses SpaceAPI data for its visualization.

#hackerspaces #softwarehacks #community #spaceapi

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