TechShops

Description

"Around the country, buying a membership in a chain of TechShops provides an away-from-home workshop for people who love to make things, somewhat like a fitness center. TechShops lets members exercise their creativity rather than their muscles, providing members access to a wide variety of personal-scale machinery and tools, including milling machines and lathes, welding stations and a CNC plasma cutter, industrial sewing machines, a 4' x 8' ShopBot CNC router, Epilog laser cutters, and a Dimension SST 3-D printer. Currently there are several TechShops in California, Michigan, Oregon and North Carolina. Similar home-away-from-home workshops that provide local hobbyists with access to with personal manufacturing tools are sprouting up in cities around the U.S." (http://web.mae.cornell.edu/lipson/FactoryAtHome.pdf)