Sheffield Hardware Hackers and Makers

community hackerspace or makerspace

Sheffield Hardware Hackers and Makers

Industry Repair

A hackerspaces.org wiki-listed active hackerspace, makerspace, hacklab, or related community workshop at Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom. It scores this way because shared technical workspace and peer learning are materially better aligned than ordinary private retail, coworking, or training models, while this snapshot keeps the score conservative until local membership governance is reviewed directly.

Why this matters: Hackerspaces are important calibration examples for community-operated physical infrastructure, shared tools, peer learning, repair culture, and self-governance practice.

Letter grade B Qualified Medium confidence (AI) Rubric gcd-rubric-v1

Final Score 47* B - Qualified
BQUALIFIED47 tentative score pts

* Tentative scaffolding score. Not human-checked or final.

Base Material45
Bonus+2
Cap66No structure cap
After Cap47
Penalties0
b
Small business context

This entry is classified as a small business using observable scale signals: independent control, local or limited operations, and no evidence of public-company or national-chain scale. The small-business calibration keeps the ordinary rubric but reads evidence at person scale: living-wage pricing is not extraction by itself, while worker and contractor treatment, owner surplus, transparency, advertising pressure, dissent tolerance, and recourse matter more. Harm, toxicity, surveillance, labor, coercion, opacity, and hidden-parent penalties are not relaxed.

Applied cap: No structure cap

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Evaluation Overview

B - Qualified

The score turns mainly on Extraction; no penalty currently dominates the evaluation.

Strengths

  • Extraction7/10
  • Solidarity with the Unemployed6/7
  • Ownership5/10

Penalties

  • No penalties applied in this version.

Evidence state

  • ConfidenceMedium confidence (AI)
  • ThoroughnessDeveloped (AI)
  • Linked claims10
  • Direct axis claims10
  • Coverage10/10

Scoring Axes
Axis Score Why this score
Ownership
?
Control rights: shareholder-dominated at 0, worker cooperative control at 10.
5 / 10

The hackerspaces.org wiki lists Sheffield Hardware Hackers and Makers as an active hackerspace at Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom; hackerspaces.org describes hackerspaces as…

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Global hackerspaces.org wiki tranche calibrated against tool libraries, creative-reuse nonprofits, repair cafes, co-ops, public-interest services, and conventional coworking or retail models.

Linked evidence
  • The hackerspaces.org wiki lists Sheffield Hardware Hackers and Makers as an active hackerspace at Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom; hackerspaces.org describes hackerspaces as community-operated physical places for people with common interests to meet, work, and learn. [1]
  • context Sheffield Hardware Hackers and Makers has a public hackerspaces.org wiki template with active status, location fields, and a public site or wiki link, which makes it part of a community-space directory rather than an opaque private storefront listing. The same template records fee information as First day is free of charge Membership for scheduled meetings - £6/Month Keyholder membership - £21/Month. [2]
  • context Sheffield Hardware Hackers and Makers's hackerspaces.org listing gives active status, public web references, and wiki location fields for Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom. The template records founding information as 17/02/2015. [3]
  • context Sheffield Hardware Hackers and Makers's public record identifies a physical community hackerspace for hacking, making, technical learning, projects, repair, or workshop activity at Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom. [4]
Governance
?
Binding decision authority: centralized control at 0, democratic stakeholder control at 10.
5 / 10

Sheffield Hardware Hackers and Makers has a public hackerspaces.org wiki template with active status, location fields, and a public site or wiki link, which makes it part of a community-space directory rather than an opaque private storefront listing.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Global hackerspaces.org wiki tranche calibrated against tool libraries, creative-reuse nonprofits, repair cafes, co-ops, public-interest services, and conventional coworking or retail models.

Linked evidence
  • context The hackerspaces.org wiki lists Sheffield Hardware Hackers and Makers as an active hackerspace at Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom; hackerspaces.org describes hackerspaces as community-operated physical places for people with common interests to meet, work, and learn. [1]
  • Sheffield Hardware Hackers and Makers has a public hackerspaces.org wiki template with active status, location fields, and a public site or wiki link, which makes it part of a community-space directory rather than an opaque private storefront listing. The same template records fee information as First day is free of charge Membership for scheduled meetings - £6/Month Keyholder membership - £21/Month. [2]
  • context Sheffield Hardware Hackers and Makers's hackerspaces.org listing gives active status, public web references, and wiki location fields for Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom. The template records founding information as 17/02/2015. [3]
  • context Sheffield Hardware Hackers and Makers's public record identifies a physical community hackerspace for hacking, making, technical learning, projects, repair, or workshop activity at Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom. [4]
Extraction
?
Surplus allocation, wage share, CEO pay ratio, margins, and structured extraction judgment.
7 / 10

Sheffield Hardware Hackers and Makers's public wiki record identifies an active shared hackerspace location at Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom, pointing to pooled workspace and tool access rather than a conventional product-sale extraction model.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Global hackerspaces.org wiki tranche calibrated against tool libraries, creative-reuse nonprofits, repair cafes, co-ops, public-interest services, and conventional coworking or retail models.

Linked evidence
  • context The hackerspaces.org wiki lists Sheffield Hardware Hackers and Makers as an active hackerspace at Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom; hackerspaces.org describes hackerspaces as community-operated physical places for people with common interests to meet, work, and learn. [1]
  • context Sheffield Hardware Hackers and Makers has a public hackerspaces.org wiki template with active status, location fields, and a public site or wiki link, which makes it part of a community-space directory rather than an opaque private storefront listing. The same template records fee information as First day is free of charge Membership for scheduled meetings - £6/Month Keyholder membership - £21/Month. [2]
  • Sheffield Hardware Hackers and Makers's public wiki record identifies an active shared hackerspace location at Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom, pointing to pooled workspace and tool access rather than a conventional product-sale extraction model. [5]
  • context Sheffield Hardware Hackers and Makers's hackerspaces.org listing gives active status, public web references, and wiki location fields for Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom. The template records founding information as 17/02/2015. [3]
  • context Sheffield Hardware Hackers and Makers's public record identifies a physical community hackerspace for hacking, making, technical learning, projects, repair, or workshop activity at Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom. [4]
Labor Sovereignty
?
Worker power: coercive conditions at 0, co-determination or ownership at 7. Employee dissatisfaction matters only when source-backed evidence shows concrete limits on worker agency, such as coercive scheduling, retaliation, wage theft, harassment, unsafe conditions, suppression of worker voice, or extreme turnover.
4 / 7

Sheffield Hardware Hackers and Makers's reviewed record presents a community hackerspace with public location and contact infrastructure, not a conventional employer-centered service chain.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Global hackerspaces.org wiki tranche calibrated against tool libraries, creative-reuse nonprofits, repair cafes, co-ops, public-interest services, and conventional coworking or retail models.

Linked evidence
  • context The hackerspaces.org wiki lists Sheffield Hardware Hackers and Makers as an active hackerspace at Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom; hackerspaces.org describes hackerspaces as community-operated physical places for people with common interests to meet, work, and learn. [1]
  • context Sheffield Hardware Hackers and Makers has a public hackerspaces.org wiki template with active status, location fields, and a public site or wiki link, which makes it part of a community-space directory rather than an opaque private storefront listing. The same template records fee information as First day is free of charge Membership for scheduled meetings - £6/Month Keyholder membership - £21/Month. [2]
  • Sheffield Hardware Hackers and Makers's reviewed record presents a community hackerspace with public location and contact infrastructure, not a conventional employer-centered service chain. [6]
  • context Sheffield Hardware Hackers and Makers's hackerspaces.org listing gives active status, public web references, and wiki location fields for Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom. The template records founding information as 17/02/2015. [3]
  • context Sheffield Hardware Hackers and Makers's public record identifies a physical community hackerspace for hacking, making, technical learning, projects, repair, or workshop activity at Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom. [4]
Solidarity with the Unemployed
?
Treatment of exits and nonworkers, including severance, redeployment, and non-competes.
6 / 7

hackerspaces.org describes hackerspaces as places where people meet, work on projects, and learn from each other; Sheffield Hardware Hackers and Makers is listed in that wiki as an active space at Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Global hackerspaces.org wiki tranche calibrated against tool libraries, creative-reuse nonprofits, repair cafes, co-ops, public-interest services, and conventional coworking or retail models.

Linked evidence
  • context The hackerspaces.org wiki lists Sheffield Hardware Hackers and Makers as an active hackerspace at Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom; hackerspaces.org describes hackerspaces as community-operated physical places for people with common interests to meet, work, and learn. [1]
  • context Sheffield Hardware Hackers and Makers has a public hackerspaces.org wiki template with active status, location fields, and a public site or wiki link, which makes it part of a community-space directory rather than an opaque private storefront listing. The same template records fee information as First day is free of charge Membership for scheduled meetings - £6/Month Keyholder membership - £21/Month. [2]
  • hackerspaces.org describes hackerspaces as places where people meet, work on projects, and learn from each other; Sheffield Hardware Hackers and Makers is listed in that wiki as an active space at Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom. [7]
  • context Sheffield Hardware Hackers and Makers's hackerspaces.org listing gives active status, public web references, and wiki location fields for Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom. The template records founding information as 17/02/2015. [3]
  • context Sheffield Hardware Hackers and Makers's public record identifies a physical community hackerspace for hacking, making, technical learning, projects, repair, or workshop activity at Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom. [4]
Loss-Bearing Fidelity
?
Willingness to absorb costs to preserve values, workers, users, and public obligations.
5 / 7

Sheffield Hardware Hackers and Makers's hackerspaces.org wiki page publicly exposes active status and public directory fields for a real-world community space at Sheffield, South Yorkshire,…

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Global hackerspaces.org wiki tranche calibrated against tool libraries, creative-reuse nonprofits, repair cafes, co-ops, public-interest services, and conventional coworking or retail models.

Linked evidence
  • context The hackerspaces.org wiki lists Sheffield Hardware Hackers and Makers as an active hackerspace at Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom; hackerspaces.org describes hackerspaces as community-operated physical places for people with common interests to meet, work, and learn. [1]
  • context Sheffield Hardware Hackers and Makers has a public hackerspaces.org wiki template with active status, location fields, and a public site or wiki link, which makes it part of a community-space directory rather than an opaque private storefront listing. The same template records fee information as First day is free of charge Membership for scheduled meetings - £6/Month Keyholder membership - £21/Month. [2]
  • Sheffield Hardware Hackers and Makers's hackerspaces.org wiki page publicly exposes active status and public directory fields for a real-world community space at Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom, making its existence more inspectable than invitation-only private workshops. [8]
  • context Sheffield Hardware Hackers and Makers's hackerspaces.org listing gives active status, public web references, and wiki location fields for Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom. The template records founding information as 17/02/2015. [3]
  • context Sheffield Hardware Hackers and Makers's public record identifies a physical community hackerspace for hacking, making, technical learning, projects, repair, or workshop activity at Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom. [4]
Market Conduct
?
Pricing fairness, switching costs, lock-in, and rent extraction.
4 / 5

Sheffield Hardware Hackers and Makers's hackerspaces.org listing gives active status, public web references, and wiki location fields for Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Global hackerspaces.org wiki tranche calibrated against tool libraries, creative-reuse nonprofits, repair cafes, co-ops, public-interest services, and conventional coworking or retail models.

Linked evidence
  • context The hackerspaces.org wiki lists Sheffield Hardware Hackers and Makers as an active hackerspace at Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom; hackerspaces.org describes hackerspaces as community-operated physical places for people with common interests to meet, work, and learn. [1]
  • context Sheffield Hardware Hackers and Makers has a public hackerspaces.org wiki template with active status, location fields, and a public site or wiki link, which makes it part of a community-space directory rather than an opaque private storefront listing. The same template records fee information as First day is free of charge Membership for scheduled meetings - £6/Month Keyholder membership - £21/Month. [2]
  • Sheffield Hardware Hackers and Makers's hackerspaces.org listing gives active status, public web references, and wiki location fields for Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom. The template records founding information as 17/02/2015. [3]
  • context Sheffield Hardware Hackers and Makers's public record identifies a physical community hackerspace for hacking, making, technical learning, projects, repair, or workshop activity at Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom. [4]
Product Integrity
?
Preservation of quality rather than degradation for monetization.
5 / 5

Sheffield Hardware Hackers and Makers's public record identifies a physical community hackerspace for hacking, making, technical learning, projects, repair, or workshop activity at Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Global hackerspaces.org wiki tranche calibrated against tool libraries, creative-reuse nonprofits, repair cafes, co-ops, public-interest services, and conventional coworking or retail models.

Linked evidence
  • context The hackerspaces.org wiki lists Sheffield Hardware Hackers and Makers as an active hackerspace at Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom; hackerspaces.org describes hackerspaces as community-operated physical places for people with common interests to meet, work, and learn. [1]
  • context Sheffield Hardware Hackers and Makers has a public hackerspaces.org wiki template with active status, location fields, and a public site or wiki link, which makes it part of a community-space directory rather than an opaque private storefront listing. The same template records fee information as First day is free of charge Membership for scheduled meetings - £6/Month Keyholder membership - £21/Month. [2]
  • context Sheffield Hardware Hackers and Makers's hackerspaces.org listing gives active status, public web references, and wiki location fields for Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom. The template records founding information as 17/02/2015. [3]
  • Sheffield Hardware Hackers and Makers's public record identifies a physical community hackerspace for hacking, making, technical learning, projects, repair, or workshop activity at Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom. [4]
Scale Integrity
?
Whether growth improves or degrades fairness and accountability.
4 / 5

Sheffield Hardware Hackers and Makers appears in this snapshot as one locally anchored active hackerspace at Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom, not as a standardized global retail chain.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Global hackerspaces.org wiki tranche calibrated against tool libraries, creative-reuse nonprofits, repair cafes, co-ops, public-interest services, and conventional coworking or retail models.

Linked evidence
  • context The hackerspaces.org wiki lists Sheffield Hardware Hackers and Makers as an active hackerspace at Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom; hackerspaces.org describes hackerspaces as community-operated physical places for people with common interests to meet, work, and learn. [1]
  • context Sheffield Hardware Hackers and Makers has a public hackerspaces.org wiki template with active status, location fields, and a public site or wiki link, which makes it part of a community-space directory rather than an opaque private storefront listing. The same template records fee information as First day is free of charge Membership for scheduled meetings - £6/Month Keyholder membership - £21/Month. [2]
  • context Sheffield Hardware Hackers and Makers's hackerspaces.org listing gives active status, public web references, and wiki location fields for Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom. The template records founding information as 17/02/2015. [3]
  • context Sheffield Hardware Hackers and Makers's public record identifies a physical community hackerspace for hacking, making, technical learning, projects, repair, or workshop activity at Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom. [4]
  • Sheffield Hardware Hackers and Makers appears in this snapshot as one locally anchored active hackerspace at Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom, not as a standardized global retail chain. [9]

Penalties

No penalties applied in this version.

Bonus Credits
Bonus Credit Why this credit
Good Deal
?
Credit for unusually fair value: durable quality, fair pricing, low lock-in, and clear customer surplus.
2 / 3

Because hackerspaces are shared physical places for projects and peer learning, Sheffield Hardware Hackers and Makers's model can give participants practical access to tools, knowledge, and…

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Global hackerspaces.org wiki tranche calibrated against tool libraries, creative-reuse nonprofits, repair cafes, co-ops, public-interest services, and conventional coworking or retail models.

Linked evidence
  • Because hackerspaces are shared physical places for projects and peer learning, Sheffield Hardware Hackers and Makers's model can give participants practical access to tools, knowledge, and workshop culture without every participant owning the full infrastructure alone. [10]

Confidence Basis

Confidence Basis

Confidence is computed from the evidence trail and review state, not typed into the profile by hand.

Medium 70/100

10 verified linked claims 10 direct axis claims 0 disputed claims 10/10 components covered

This confidence label measures the source-backed evidence trail. AI-scaffolded scores remain tentative until human review.

Claim confidence 7/20

10 verified linked claims

Source quality 10/18

Best source per verified claim, weighted by institutional reliability

Direct axis-specific claims 14/18

10 direct claims across 10 active components

Dispute load 12/12

0 disputed claims on this entity

Recency 10/10

Newest accepted timestamp: May 15, 2026

Reviewer status 7/12

Human-reviewed components score higher than AI scaffolding

Component coverage 10/10

10/10 evidence-bearing components have direct support

Evidence State

Evidence State

Profile stateAI draft / human-pending
VerificationUnverified
ConfidenceMedium confidence (AI)
ThoroughnessDeveloped (AI)
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Claims and Sources

Claims are the evidence record. Each claim needs a source link, axis category, status, confidence level, and timestamp before it can support a score.

* Tentative scaffolding score. Not human-checked or final.
1The hackerspaces.org wiki lists Sheffield Hardware Hackers and Makers as an active hackerspace at Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom; hackerspaces.org describes hackerspaces as community-operated physical places for people with common interests to meet, work, and learn.

Ownership Verified Low confidence Human-reviewed

2Sheffield Hardware Hackers and Makers has a public hackerspaces.org wiki template with active status, location fields, and a public site or wiki link, which makes it part of a community-space directory rather than an opaque private storefront listing. The same template records fee information as First day is free of charge Membership for scheduled meetings - £6/Month Keyholder membership - £21/Month.

Governance Verified Low confidence Human-reviewed

3Sheffield Hardware Hackers and Makers's hackerspaces.org listing gives active status, public web references, and wiki location fields for Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom. The template records founding information as 17/02/2015.

Market Conduct Verified Low confidence Human-reviewed

4Sheffield Hardware Hackers and Makers's public record identifies a physical community hackerspace for hacking, making, technical learning, projects, repair, or workshop activity at Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

Product Integrity Verified Low confidence Human-reviewed

5Sheffield Hardware Hackers and Makers's public wiki record identifies an active shared hackerspace location at Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom, pointing to pooled workspace and tool access rather than a conventional product-sale extraction model.

Extraction Verified Low confidence Human-reviewed

6Sheffield Hardware Hackers and Makers's reviewed record presents a community hackerspace with public location and contact infrastructure, not a conventional employer-centered service chain.

Labor Sovereignty Verified Low confidence Human-reviewed

7hackerspaces.org describes hackerspaces as places where people meet, work on projects, and learn from each other; Sheffield Hardware Hackers and Makers is listed in that wiki as an active space at Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

Solidarity Unemployed Verified Low confidence Human-reviewed

8Sheffield Hardware Hackers and Makers's hackerspaces.org wiki page publicly exposes active status and public directory fields for a real-world community space at Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom, making its existence more inspectable than invitation-only private workshops.

Loss Bearing Fidelity Verified Low confidence Human-reviewed

9Sheffield Hardware Hackers and Makers appears in this snapshot as one locally anchored active hackerspace at Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom, not as a standardized global retail chain.

Scale Integrity Verified Low confidence Human-reviewed

10Because hackerspaces are shared physical places for projects and peer learning, Sheffield Hardware Hackers and Makers's model can give participants practical access to tools, knowledge, and workshop culture without every participant owning the full infrastructure alone.

Good Deal Verified Low confidence Human-reviewed

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