Hackerspace Gent


we love bits|we love variable rewards|we love ASCII|we love 01100001 01110011 01100011 01101001 01101001|we love knowledge|we love biology|we love ham radio|we love tech|we love independence|we love experimenting|we love to hear about your project|we love pretty lights|we love to hack|we love tools|we love the whole EM spectrum|we love snowden|we love linux|we love NFC|we love lasers|we love doing things wrong|we love technology|we love datums|we love to hack the gibson|we love chip implants|we love recruiting hackers|we love recursion|we love recursion|we love curiosity|we love engineering|we love graphs|we love machining|we love bit banging|we love food hacking|we love responsible disclosure|we love history|we love bbq|we love philosophy|we love digital|we love git|we love analog|we love radio|we love **itcoins|we love rockets|we love virtual private networks|we love RFID|we love a*|we love DIY books|we love 3D printing|we love data structures|we love physics|we love smoke|we love geeks|we love circuit bending|we love electronics|we love RGB|we love nerds|we love mechanical keyboards|we love breaking things|we love sharing|we love blockchain|we love painting|we love distributed computing|we love silent disco|we love reducing data exhaust|we love RFID implants|we love machine learning|we love fellow humanoids|we love good opsec|we love comedy|we love geeks|we love science|we love bytes|we love open source|we love cats|we love metasploit|we love to play|welove precision|we love retro games|we love happy little trees|we love mesh networks|we love vim|we love math|we love tinkering|we love music|we love club mate|we love space|we love monads|we love NFC implants|we love flow|we love blinkenlights|we love creative chaos|we love seamless polymer flooring|we love beer|we love python|we love board games|we love neural networks|we love privacy|we love learning|we love blinking leds|we love books|we love soldering|we love dogs|we love geeks|we love DIY|we love binary|we love 01100010 01101001 01101110 01100001 01110010 01111001|we love CTFs|we love retrocomputing|we love synthesizers beep boop|we love 中文|we love nerds|we love cryptography|we love access|we love voiding warranties|we love minecraft|we love ISO 8601|we love meeting new hackers|we love  kerning|we love microcontrollers|we love anarchy|we love fuzzing|we love arduino|we love exploring|we love learning by doing|we love teaching by example|we love fixing things|we love the whole RF spectrum|we love unicorns|we love snowden|we love raspberry pi|we love cad|we love r00t|we love ritalin :p|we love internet|we love action over words|we love biohacking|we love science|we love power tools|we love bug bounties|we love optics|

A Place To Call Home

Hackerspace Gent (0x20) is a hackerspace in the wonderful city of Ghent, Belgium. It is a physical space run by a group of people dedicated to various aspects of constructive & creative tinkering. This page is an ever growing resource of information about who we are, what we do, and how you can become a part of all the awesomeness.

Hackers?

Don't worry, we won't break into your computer. The hacker culture is a subculture of individuals who enjoy the intellectual challenge of creatively overcoming the limitations of current technologies to achieve novel and clever outcomes. The culture consists of, but is not limited to: computing, networking, programming, music, gaming, electronics, lock picking, woodworking, robotics, science fiction... However, the defining characteristic of a hacker is not the activities performed themselves, but the manner in which it is done. A hacker is someone who invents, constructs, learns, shares, trains basic skills and is willing to think outside the box to find a creative solution to a problem.

Note: While we hackers are always aiming to be constructive, there is a group of people who loudly call themselves hackers, but have a different motivation. These are people who get a kick out of breaking into computers for unethical purposes. Unfortunately, some media have been using the word ‘hacker’ to describe people we do not necessarily agree with.

Need help?

Do you want to learn about science, technology and art? Do you have an awesome idea that you need help with? Or do you simply want a place to share your passion? Hackerspace Ghent gives you the space, knowledge and community you need!

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Thursday evening is our social evening. Pop in to see what we're all about, have a chat, work on your projects and make nerdy friends!

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Hackerspace Ghent is built by people just like you. Read the hackerspace blueprint to understand how we work and how you can become part of it..

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Projects born
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Much of hacking is about understanding systems better than those who built them, and using that knowledge to do what is supposed to be 'impossible'.