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NYTimes Visits Menlo Park's TechShop
ridgecritter points out this interesting article in the New York Times on TechShop, a membership resource (a.k.a. hackerspace) in Menlo Park, CA, for building stuff. "From hammers to 3-D printers and laser cutters. Fun!" Along similar lines, and also recently in the NYT, a quick on-the-train conversation with Bre Pettis of MakerBot.
The article mentions a new location coming is San Jose this year, but their locations page doesn't. Anyone have more details about this? San Jose would be a lot more convenient for those of us on the other end of 17 from the valley.
If you took the time to check the prices of equipment such as a 3D printer or a CNC mill, you'd see that it's rather cheap to get a membership at one of those places instead of trying to buy it for yourself. Also, a lot of people live in apartments and wouldn't even want to have such equipment in their living quarters. I can't imagine trying to explain to my neighbours that the noise is from a CNC mill working an aluminium block and that it'll be over in about 3 hours...
Just do a google search for hacker spaces in europe. I know that there are least 2 or three that are considered to be some of the best in the world that are in europe I just cant remember the names. Hacker spaces really are awesome!
"It's ok, I'm completely secure as long as my iron is off"
I'm a student in the Seattle area and we're trying to set up a hackerspace, but more geared to high school students. If there are cool spaces for students to hang out and work on science/tech projects, we'll be able to get more students interested in science and technology. Link in my sig.
Student Research and Development