Maker Space
Friday, August 4th, 2017 05:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bairnsidhe So my local Maker Space had to move (noise and smell complaints from neighbors, lack of parking, it needed to happen) and their new space is AMAZING.
For starters, the parking space is huge. The space is on something like 3 acres of land, I think. There's an open parking area and one that's got a lockable fence, so those of us who need to leave large projects in the lot overnight don't need to worry about random theft anymore, so score!
The building itself has a large, well-vented garage and two forges, one charcoal and one gas (I'm planning a project to build a smaller, separate forge for greensmithing to avoid pennying the bigger forges). Then inside a little ways is a fabrication room with loads of space for messy projects and a giant laser cutter for big projects.
Up the stairs is a set of clean, well lit rooms for indoor projects, including a designated sewing lab, a kids-space, and an electronics room. There's also a big central room with tables and stools for communal knowledge-shares and group work. I cannot stress how amazing it is to have a big CLEAN space for crafting in a maker space. We're not always going to be doing things with grease and Spackle and fire and metal. I mean, we will often, but sometimes we'll be doing things that need some delicacy and it's good to have a place with no half-tacky stains of dubious origin to work around.
Then, in the basement is the store. It's a treasure trove of all those things you'll need a few of eventually, but who wants to run to the hardware shop to buy a box of nails you'll only use two of? It's big, well-lit, and when we went there, had kids with pet rats hanging out and I got to hold them. Rats are adorable and I love them.
Maker spaces are amazing and important and if you can support one near you, I recommend it.
For starters, the parking space is huge. The space is on something like 3 acres of land, I think. There's an open parking area and one that's got a lockable fence, so those of us who need to leave large projects in the lot overnight don't need to worry about random theft anymore, so score!
The building itself has a large, well-vented garage and two forges, one charcoal and one gas (I'm planning a project to build a smaller, separate forge for greensmithing to avoid pennying the bigger forges). Then inside a little ways is a fabrication room with loads of space for messy projects and a giant laser cutter for big projects.
Up the stairs is a set of clean, well lit rooms for indoor projects, including a designated sewing lab, a kids-space, and an electronics room. There's also a big central room with tables and stools for communal knowledge-shares and group work. I cannot stress how amazing it is to have a big CLEAN space for crafting in a maker space. We're not always going to be doing things with grease and Spackle and fire and metal. I mean, we will often, but sometimes we'll be doing things that need some delicacy and it's good to have a place with no half-tacky stains of dubious origin to work around.
Then, in the basement is the store. It's a treasure trove of all those things you'll need a few of eventually, but who wants to run to the hardware shop to buy a box of nails you'll only use two of? It's big, well-lit, and when we went there, had kids with pet rats hanging out and I got to hold them. Rats are adorable and I love them.
Maker spaces are amazing and important and if you can support one near you, I recommend it.
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Date: 2017-08-06 04:59 pm (UTC)Those oxides get *very* incandescent" in a flame.