[HH] TechShop

[Tom Metro]

I saw TechShop[1], a San Francisco area makerspace featured on CNN's
"The Next List"[2[ today. It operates on a similar monthly membership
model to Artisan Asylum.

The best known project shown on the program was Square[3], the credit
card reader for smartphones. They also showed a kayak that folds up to a
suitcase size package using origami techniques.

JIm Newton, the founder, says that plan to open up TechShops all across
the country.

1. http://www.techshop.ws/
2.
http://whatsnext.blogs.cnn.com/2012/10/12/my-question-what-do-you-want-to-make/
(that's a blog posting summarizing a bit of the show; unfortunately the
list of past episodes that are viewable online doesn't include any of
the ones from the past few months)
3. https://squareup.com/

 -Tom