Yesterday at The Next Hope in NYC, Johannes Grenzfurthner of monochrom announced Hackbus, a community wiki for mobile hack vehicles around the world. Here’s more on the Hackbus concept. Hackbusses (or mobile hacklabs or hack vehicles) are a low-threshold way of bringing the culture of hacking to the people. They are migratory learning and teaching … Read more

Check it out! The idea began over beers. Johannes Grenzfurthner (of monochrom) and friends wondered if the notion that porn drives technology really was true or urban myth. So, they decided, why not organize a public event and find out? Arse Elektronika, a conference about technology and sex, came screaming into the world. “It was … Read more

We at monochrom are launching a community site for the evergrowing armada of hackbusses. We need a root movement of doing strange things with hardware which was not intended (aka “hacking”) because only when we use things in ways other than they were planned can something new arise. Hackbusses (or mobile hacklabs or hack vehicles) … Read more