This is something that's interested me ever since I heard about the first Hacker Houses here on HN, and it's great to hear some details about how it worked out. I'd love to get a bunch of folks together in one place and let the ideas flow, especially if there was some hardware involved. Kind of a modern-day mad scientists' laboratory, if you will...

EDIT: and if anyone else in Wellington NZ thinks the same way, take a look at my profile and get in touch. :)