First reveal

Written By Eric Rettke

Let me know what you think of this site. My internal critic tells me to delete it lol. I am needy after publishing it, but I hope I will get over it. The site combines my Facebook business page hackerspace, and the videos I made for my cyber security class posted on YouTube. The most important step for me was to add a join link on a web site to start getting a mailing list going.

I’ve got 3 Raspberry Pi computers about the size of an index card and a 10 dollar hub to network them together. One is already a web server. I want to build something that you all would build in your home. A hands on networking lab that I can fit on a card table. I’ve started the hardware part and likely you have seen photos in my online class, discord, YouTube, Facebook or from me!

I am ready to include your feed back on the next steps and progress. I am calling it a Mastermind group. A way for me to get input and provide something that you can try yourself. I will be posting here and I will get some kind discussion thread on my pages so that you can help my creative ego through this birthing period for hackerspace.

My business page shows that most of the viewers are from our friends in Egypt and India, I’m in rainy Southern California. I look forward to bridging the distances. That is about 14,797 kilometers! Or 7990 nautical miles for my US friends. I am hoping this Raspberry Pi project (to make a hands on network study lab) will help with that. It is inspired by CompTIA an Industry IT certification association here in the states. Students usually buy courseware or use youtube to learn all the terminology. The internet recommends hands on but that can be difficult to acquire. Your workplace may have it. Or you can enroll at a colleges with a computer lab, but then you have to make the commute to visit the labs. Let’s not even talk about grades here. With this Raspberry Pi project you can build it in your homes. And have a lot of fun.

I hope to add Zoom meetings or use Twitch so we can meet face to face and talk about bringing servers and networks affordably in our homes where we can hack them without worrying about breaking any laws and getting into trouble. Just good creative computing!

I’d love to hear your thoughts on any of my channels.

Carpe diem!

Eric Rettke
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