The Hub

A wall welcoming a new batch to RC, decorated with sticky notes and banners

We call our physical space the "Hub," and it's designed to support both deep, focused work (on our quiet floor) and serendipitous encounters and close collaboration (on our loud, social floor). You can pair, host study groups, work on hardware projects, make art with computers, and share lunch and coffee chats with your fellow Recursers, to name just a few common activities.

The quiet, focused floor

Desks and a bookshelf on the quiet, focused floor

Our quiet floor has lots of desks, chairs, and couches for heads down work, and phone and side rooms for private calls or pairing with a remote Recurser. It's also home to Max's Stacks, a cozy library of technical books named in memory of RC alum, Max Chiswick.

The loud, collaborative floor

Recursers pairing at a standing desk on the loud, collaborative floor

This floor is for pair programming, hosting events, friendly debates over coffee, game nights, hardware hacking, building games for the RCade, and more.

It's home to the DAVE Lab, our vintage electronics lab, which includes a NeXTstation Turbo Color (with a copy of the WorldWideWeb.app!), an Olivetti, an Apple IIe, a Mac Color Classic, and many other machines to explore.

DAVE Lab

Vintage computers on display in the DAVE Lab

Hardware workspace

The music and tinkering room Shelves of hardware and electronics supplies

Side rooms for small group events

A conference room table set up for a group meeting A conference room with a long table and whiteboard

The kitchen

The kitchen counter and appliances Recursers at the kitchen counter seating

Our network

We have a 1 Gbps symmetric dedicated fiber circuit and a backup cable connection. Also, we operate as an ASN (with our own /24 IPv4 block), just for fun.

We also have a small, very-outdated cluster; it's maintained and run by the community, and we'll be upgrading it as soon as the RAM shortage passes.

Built by Recursers

Many of the most exciting parts of our space were built by Recursers: An LED arch, a refurbished 1980s display, a rotary phone that reads poetry, a receipt printer that prints selfies, a Folk Computer installation, a robot that writes fortunes on Post-Its, and many more.

An LED sign with a fun message The rotary phone that reads poetry Selfies printed by the receipt printer, pinned to a board A handmade LED panel with exposed circuit boards and wiring The RCade arcade cabinet A Recurser playing a game on the RCade
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