Project 24. Wheelchair Robot

Hackers at San Francisco’s Noisebridge hackerspace turned an electric wheelchair into a laptop-controlled robot.

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Hackerspace Profile: Noisebridge

Location:

Noisebridge

2169 Mission Street

San Francisco, CA 94110

noisebridge.net

Organizational type: 501(c)(3) nonprofit

Founding date: October 2008

Number of members: 48

Dues: $80 regular, $40 “starving hacker”

Size of the space: 5,600 square feet

Officers/Leaders:

• Jonathan Lassoff, president

• Kelly Buchanan, CFO

• Seth Schoen, secretary

• Miloh Alexander, board member ...

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