- <p>The Santa Barbara Hackerspace was founded in August of 2015 by Steve Phillips and Mike "Swiss" Bales. The goal was to build a space to allow the community to access tools and especially space, a real commodity in Santa Barbara. Our first meetings were held at Swiss' garage and quickly grew. Six months later we rented our first official space, 400 square feet of awesome. We grew from 12 members to over 20 and quickly ran out of space. A year later we upgraded to a new office, 2000 square feet and within a year managed to fill it with tools and added an additional 2000 square feet. By this time we had 40 plus members, a respectable collection of tools and equipment, and offices for co-workers. Today we have a 4000 square foot shop, with a machine shop, electronics room, co-worker offices, classroom, an awesome membership of 50+, and an amazing team of volunteers to keep things running.</p>
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