Hack This: Milkymist VJ Console Hackerspace Project
Space Details
“Rent is hard in Paris, expensive,” co-founder Sébastien Bourdeauducq described. “We got an offer from an artist collective to have an artist space outside of Paris in the industrial suburb of Vitry-sur-Seine. The building owner temporarily gave us the space for no rent.” The space’s name comes from the temporary nature of this arrangement.
“The goal was to provide an infrastructure first,” Bourdeauducq explained, “and let 1,000 beautiful projects blossom in this fertile environment: open Source, hardware, cultural and artistic events, activism, etc. We wanted everyone to see the /tmp/lab and say ‘Oh...it’s simple, let’s build one with my friends in my town.’”
The Project Credit: Girard Alexandre
• Comfort in the tight confines of /tmp/lab can be a rare commodity.
Credit: Paula Vélez
• A sign at /tmp/lab touts Phack (phack.fr), an organization that supports Parisian hackerspaces.
Credit: Sébastien Bourdeauducq (CC-BY-SA)
• A beauty shot of the finished Milkymist One, showing off its laser-cut case.