Make Vol. 40: Go Big

Make Magazine

From TechShops to Fab Labs, makerspaces are popping up around the country and the world, helping makers gain experience, develop support networks, and build bigger and better than ever before. Volunteer-run or professional, membership- or employee-based, non- or for-profit, they?re offering tools, education, and space to makers who don?t have a home shop or who want to go beyond it.

Part recreational shop, part product incubator, part R&D lab, part community center, they cater to — and help define — a growing, decentralized hub of the maker world. These are places where makers are safe, welcome, comfortable, and free to pursue their goals, where innovation and creativity is fostered, learning is encouraged, and community trumps just about everything.

In these pages you?ll see some makerspaces up close, as well as look at what they can do and how they?re growing. You?ll see some of their tools and their builds, and maybe you?ll be inspired to check one out in your area. Welcome to the Geek Club.

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publish date	August/Septemeber 2014
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