It would only be interesting if the Asylum definitely survived. :-P Most of my interest in the Asylum is the community and teaching aspect.
* 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 * On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 12:00 PM, Greg London <[email protected]> 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 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Hardwarehacking mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/hardwarehacking > > > > > -- > > > _______________________________________________ > Hardwarehacking mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/hardwarehacking >
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