It would only be interesting if the Asylum definitely survived.  :-P  Most of my interest in the Asylum is the community and teaching aspect.<div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><b><b><div>

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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 12:00 PM, Greg London <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:email@greglondon.com" target="_blank">email@greglondon.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">

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I heard about TechShop years ago.<br>
Was waiting for them to come to the Boston area.<br>
Found a votech school that had machining and welding classes at night.<br>
And then someone I was talking to mentioned Artisan's Asylum to me,<br>
and I've taken some classes there now too.<br>
<br>
Summer around Boston is too short not to spend as much time as possible<br>
outside in the warm weather. Now that it's cold, I'm thinking about<br>
taking a couple of classes, but work has a deadline right now,<br>
so I'm too busy with that.<br>
<br>
It would be interesting to see if the Boston area could support<br>
both Artisan's Asylum and a TechShop space.<br>
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Greg<br>
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> I saw TechShop[1], a San Francisco area makerspace featured on CNN's<br>
> "The Next List"[2[ today. It operates on a similar monthly membership<br>
> model to Artisan Asylum.<br>
><br>
> The best known project shown on the program was Square[3], the credit<br>
> card reader for smartphones. They also showed a kayak that folds up to a<br>
> suitcase size package using origami techniques.<br>
><br>
> JIm Newton, the founder, says that plan to open up TechShops all across<br>
> the country.<br>
><br>
> 1. <a href="http://www.techshop.ws/" target="_blank">http://www.techshop.ws/</a><br>
> 2.<br>
> <a href="http://whatsnext.blogs.cnn.com/2012/10/12/my-question-what-do-you-want-to-make/" target="_blank">http://whatsnext.blogs.cnn.com/2012/10/12/my-question-what-do-you-want-to-make/</a><br>
> (that's a blog posting summarizing a bit of the show; unfortunately the<br>
> list of past episodes that are viewable online doesn't include any of<br>
> the ones from the past few months)<br>
> 3. <a href="https://squareup.com/" target="_blank">https://squareup.com/</a><br>
><br>
>  -Tom<br>
><br>
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