Santa Barbara Hackerspace Inc.

06/07/2025

Shop floor mostly done

06/06/2025

Support the Santa Barbara Hackerspace – Your Impact Just Doubled!

We’re thrilled to share that thanks to our incredible community, we’ve already raised over $40,000 in support of the Santa Barbara Hackerspace! Your generosity is helping us maintain and grow a vital hub for creativity, engineering, and hands-on learning in the heart of Santa Barbara.

And now, we have some exciting news: an anonymous donor has pledged to match every donation made this week – dollar for dollar!

That means every $1 you contribute becomes $2 to help fund our move, tools, expand workshops, and keep our space accessible to makers of all ages.

One week only. Double your impact.
Help us reach the next level – whether you’re a past member, a curious supporter, or just love what we’re building, now is the time to give.

Please share this with everyone your network – friends, family, coworkers – anyone who believes in supporting community, creativity, and education.

https://store.sbhackerspace.com
Thank you for keeping the spirit of innovation alive in Santa Barbara!

The Santa Barbara Hackerspace has been a community hub for makers, tinkerers, and tech enthusiasts since its founding. Unfortunately, our previous building was sold, and the new landlords proposed an unsustainable 70% rent increase. We had to leave.

05/18/2025

Hey everyone we have an exciting announcement to make!!!

The Santa Barbara Hackerspace has secured a new location!!!!

We signed a lease for 302 Pine Ave, Goleta CA 93117.

Securing this space has been a ton of work but this new space will represent a huge step up for us.

For more info please check out fundraising site:
https://store.sbhackerspace.com

and our fundraising store:
https://store.sbhackerspace.com/donation_storefront

This move wouldn’t be possible without our members and we are incredibly excited for the opportunity to build out a new space better suited to our needs. Special thanks to , and Kerr for putting an insane amount of work (and for all the work that will be required to build out and move the space)

The Santa Barbara Hackerspace has been a community hub for makers, tinkerers, and tech enthusiasts since its founding. Unfortunately, our previous building was sold, and the new landlords proposed an unsustainable 70% rent increase. We had to leave.

10/25/2024

Join us for our October tech talk live:

In this talk, we’ll explore the foundational principles of the World Wide Web as envisioned by its pioneers, compare them to the current state of modern fron...

10/16/2024

https://www.meetup.com/santabarbarahackerspace/events/304044606/?utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=announceModal_savedevents_share_modal&utm_source=link

In this talk, we’ll explore the foundational principles of the World Wide Web as envisioned by its pioneers, compare them to the current state of modern frontend frameworks

09/27/2024

Link for tonight's tech talk live stream:

Building Autonomous Systems Using Everyday Items: We'll cover CANbus (2.0/FD) electrical and software architecture, how it compares to similar technologies (...

09/17/2024

Building Autonomous Systems Using Everyday Items: We'll cover CANbus (2.0/FD) electrical and software architecture, how it compares to similar technologies (i2c, spi, seria

08/29/2024

Watch out tech talk live here:

Presented by Dr. Demis John: Microchips are the world’s most advanced technology in the world. And Goleta & Santa Barbara are home to some of the most innova...

08/10/2024

Come join us for our Augsust tech talk: Incubating the Goleta/Santa Barbara microchip industry presented by Dr. Demis John.

Microchips are the world’s most advanced technology in the world. And Goleta & Santa Barbara are home to some of the most innovative microchip companies in the world. In this talk I will give an introduction to the local microchip industry, and explain how anybody can make microchips with a bit of imagination.

Demis John graduated with his Ph.D. in 2012 from the research group of Dr. Daniel J. Blumenthal at UCSB. He worked on creating ultra-low-loss optical waveguides, in close collaboration with the John E. Bowers research group, involving a great deal of materials analysis and fabrication along with optoelectronic simulation. From 2012 to 2017, Demis worked at Praevium Research Inc. where he developed near-infrared and mid-infrared tunable semiconductor lasers for medical imaging and gas spectroscopy, respectively. Combined, Demis has been using the UCSB Nanofab since 2006.

Demis has also worked with the Santa Barbara City College to build Santa Barbara’s first semiconductor cleanroom training for non-UCSB students, using a UCSB Cleanroom. He also launched the manufacturing and technology committee within the Santa Barbara Chamber of Commerce, with the intention of building the visibility of Santa Barbara‘s cutting edge microchip industry so local residents can be part of this amazing industry. The above efforts resulted in Demis being awarded Goleta finest innovator in 2023.

https://www.meetup.com/santabarbarahackerspace/events/302749618/?utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=announceModal_savedevents_share_modal&utm_source=link

and as always you can join our talks online via our youtube livestream: https://www.youtube.com/

Presented by Dr. Demis John: Microchips are the world’s most advanced technology in the world. And Goleta & Santa Barbara are home to some of the most innovative microchip

07/08/2024

reminder that this sunday is our next leather working class on belt making. More info and tickets can be found here:

Discover the art and craft of leatherworking in our hands-on "Introduction to Leather: Belt Making"