Have you tried goats?
Darryl
On 24/06/2012 8:30 PM, Mike Spencer wrote:
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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