On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Keith Lofstrom <[email protected]> wrote: > http://portland.techshop.ws Sorry, the local URL is slightly different. http://www.portlandtechshop.com
> > Techshop is getting ready for their grand opening in April. This is > a "membership machine shop" with woodworking, metalworking, clothworking, > and electronics tools. They are only partially open now, but they have > room for 30,000 square feet of equipment, and a few dozen metal and wood > machines installed. Much of that equipment is being used to build the > rest of the facility. > > They will have some auto shop capability, but that is still hung up > on insurance issues. But I bet you could build a titanium/composite > bicycle there now, and there is a big truck parking lot to test it > in. No good place for static-testing large rocket engines, sigh, > but you could probably build one there. One of their "early adopters" > built a large robotic race car (4 feet on a side) and found out that > the clearance under a dumpster is less than expected. > > Relevant to this list is a planned computer and open source lab, > CAD tools, and the like. They have some funding for open source > projects. PSU CS is involved. > > This is a hard time to start a business, but this shop will make > it easier for others to start hardware-product businesses. The > $125/mo or $1200/yr membership fees are expensive, but cheaper > than maintaining a personal shop. > > Keith > > -- > Keith Lofstrom [email protected] Voice (503)-520-1993 > KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" > Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Scan ICs > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
