Maker space

[ediscountclub]

We visited and liked the 6 month old Maker Space and Co.
Located in Sydney Marrickville.

Run like a gym. You get paid $50 per hour for teaching.

You can hire the space per day or month.
Use all tools after induction.

Computer rooms, meeting ,
pottery, sowing rooms and spaces to set up your own workshop.

Perfect

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[Steve Dalton]

Awesome - do they have paid staff running the place? Looks well
organised - similar to TechShop in the US - but of course with paid
staff you can do this.

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[PF B]

Thanks Robert - will check it out on next visit to Sydney . Was there a regular meeting night?
Some interesting classes - this was listed under 'other' category-
http://makerspace.org.au/book/introduction-to-circuit-bending/  $185 for 1 day.

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[PF B]

Only lived 2 streets away 10 years ago.. oh the timing :(

[ediscountclub]

They have partly paid staff and the rest is getting shared work space hours. They also make their money teaching.

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[ediscountclub]

Not sure.
The web site tells more.

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[ediscountclub]

Sydney is cold bass and I got bronchitis down here.

The web site tells you more. We only got a short intro.
But very friendly.
Sagar got exited. As he is looking for a place to teach electronics.
After going to Robots and Dinosaurs he said.
If I would come here first, I would have been put off from Hackerspaces for life.

First impressions count.

They where all too busy doing their own thing.

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[ediscountclub]

The other thing I like to mention is that ones a club has a large workshop aerea, people take their expensive machinery out of storage to give to the club on a loan bases. So that they can actually use them.
I have the same problem.

The other is that they get free new tools such as the XCarve CNC from Inventables.

They ask the company for a free sample and often get it. The catch is that they have to make a valuation video on youtube.

Robodino had one and fully incased it.
Their main tool seems a Laser. They worked on a new one to upgrade it while the other was in constand use.

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