[HH] TechShop

[Drew Van Zandt]

It would only be interesting if the Asylum definitely survived.  :-P  Most
of my interest in the Asylum is the community and teaching aspect.

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Drew Van Zandt
Artisan's Asylum Craft Lead, Electronics & Robotics
Cam # US2010035593 (M:Liam Hopkins R: Bastian Rotgeld)
Domain Coordinator, MA-003-D.  Masquerade aVST
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On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 12:00 PM, Greg London <email at greglondon.com> wrote:

>
> I heard about TechShop years ago.
> Was waiting for them to come to the Boston area.
> Found a votech school that had machining and welding classes at night.
> And then someone I was talking to mentioned Artisan's Asylum to me,
> and I've taken some classes there now too.
>
> Summer around Boston is too short not to spend as much time as possible
> outside in the warm weather. Now that it's cold, I'm thinking about
> taking a couple of classes, but work has a deadline right now,
> so I'm too busy with that.
>
> It would be interesting to see if the Boston area could support
> both Artisan's Asylum and a TechShop space.
>
> Greg
>
>
> > 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
> >
> >
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