Pete wrote:
> I love this. It seems to provide a counterexample to the scenario
> you describe below, in that they seem to have pulled this off in
> Winnipeg, and it's attracting young people. How cool is this?
Yeah, very. There's been some effort to create such a space in
Halifax, doesn't seem to have gotten off the ground yet.
Our local blacksmithing group -- maybe as many as 50 people including
casual droppers in, fewer pros and dedicated hobbyists -- have been
trying for a few years to get a communal "club house" together. We
have some donated equipment including a 300# power hammer and a little
seed money but real estate prices, regulatory constraints and,
especially, finding a location optimally accessible to a widely
scattered membership have the project stalled. A forge shop with a
300# power hammer wouldcertainly qualify as a makerspace. As far as
attracting young people, smoke, flame, noise and chunks of red-hot iron are
pretty sexy. ;-)
> Man, the hardware they've got. I would just go nuts in a space like
> that. Have to add a bio-science annex to the chemistry section, then
> we've got everything you could want.
Right. I could experiment with tailoring a fungal agent that only
attacks knapweed root crowns. During my single year working in
bioscience, at a prestigious hospital, most of what I did, excepting
access to a spectrophotometer, was done with standard glassware or
built from junk. Of course, the one time I hit a stone wall and the
threat of wrath from Important People, it helped a lot that there was
a guy in the precision machine shop downstairs who bailed me out.
- Mike
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Michael Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada .~.
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