[HH] TechShop

[Federico Lucifredi]

If you have an MIT affiliation, you may access the labs there (particularly the Hobby Shop), which is pretty damn good. Some of the student societies also maintain their own shops.

I was told a while ago that TechShop decided not to come to Boston after some market analysis (pure gossip, take it as such).  The most obvious way for them now would be to purchase/partner with the Asylum, rather than compete.

I doubt the Asylum and Techshop can make do with the local audience.  Happy to be proved wrong, however :)

 Best -F



> 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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