Entropia

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Entropia

Status	active
Country	Germany
State or District	Baden-Württemberg
City	Karlsruhe
Date of founding	2001/05/17
Last Updated	2013-04-09
Website	http://entropia.de/
Wiki	http://entropia.de/
IRC	irc://irc.hackint.eu/entropia
E-mail	info@entropia.de
Mailinglist	https://bl0rg.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/news
Snail mail	Steinstr. 23 76133 Karlsruhe Germany
Number of members	90
Membership fee	6-10 € per month
Size of rooms	57m²+x
Members	Fukami, Neingeist
Location	49° 0' 24" N, 8° 24' 27" E
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Entropian reverse-engineering an ancient LED panel

Entropia is a small hackerspace in the city of Karlsruhe. It provides space and equipment for students, hackers and other aliens to explore technology, human brains and even alcoholic and caffeine-based beverages. It was founded as the Karlsruhe incarnation of the Chaos Computer Club. Entropia can be considered low-budget since the ~90 members pay a fee of between 0 and 10 € per month.

While Entropia led a nomadic life since 1998, it put down roots on May 17th, 2001 in its current 57 square-meter location.

Entropia (εντροπία) is Greek for entropy and represents (in good old discordian tradition) the dichotomy of chaos and information density. Entropy is a measure of the unavailability of a system's energy to do work and quantifies the information contained in a message.