C-base is easily one of the coolest places in Berlin! I’m so going. Maybe I can grab a well loved laptop (sure I can get one from eBay, but this way I can give money to a fellow Berlin, c-base friend).
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#32yes yes yes!
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#33Will be booking a table asap! Have a bunch of stuff that can move on :)
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#34Related events in other cities? To start: * US Boston / New England area -- MIT Swapfest, http://w1mx.mit.edu/flea-at-mit/
I used to live in the Boston area as a kid and dad used to take me to loads of ham radio swap meets in the city. I loved rummaging around the stuff and finding cool things to try to use with my Commodore 64 (even in the 80s, ham swap fest's had a lot of computer gear proliferating)
I really miss the format but I just haven't seen them around for years (decades?) at least in my part of the world...
Re: Show HN: Berlin Swapfest – Electronics flea market
#35Related events in other cities? To start: * US Boston / New England area -- MIT Swapfest, http://w1mx.mit.edu/flea-at-mit/
I used to live in the Boston area as a kid and dad used to take me to loads of ham radio swap meets in the city. I loved rummaging around the stuff and finding cool things to try to use with my Commodore 64 (even in the 80s, ham swap fest's had a lot of computer gear proliferating) I really miss the format but I just haven't seen them around for years (decades?) at least in my part of the world...
Here is a way to find hamfests:
https://www.arrl.org/hamfests-and-conventions-calendar
Note I have found searching by city and state is broken. You need to search by zipcode.
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#36Never heard of having to register in order to visit a flea market as a potential customer.
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#37Never heard of having to register in order to visit a flea market as a potential customer.
It’s mainly to figure out how many people are coming!
We have limited space at c-base and I want to be respectful of their fire code!
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#38Would love to take part in this, but the date is unfortunately pretty unfavorable for me, do you have any social page to follow for the next events?
Update: https://bsky.app/profile/swapfest.berlin
We’ll be using this microsite for now for updates, but will likely spin up a bluesky account for the swapfest!
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#39Nice! Might travel to Berlin for this. Any idea how non-german-speaker friendly this will be? The hackerspace website is german only, but I'm hoping we can expect most attendees / sellers to speak english?
Big city + tech focus - I'd be surprised if you can find someone that doesn't speak functional English.
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#40It’s moments like these that I hate being a hoarder - just can’t let go of the dusty old gear lying around ;)
Btw one could get company sponsorship for a ewaste container so that one doesn’t have to take stuff back home - after all it’s the big companies that produce this stuff and then make it redundant. Perhaps ewaste could be segregated by company to see who is the biggest “offender” - I’m sure there’s many a Fritz box lying around…