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There are shared garage/workshop areas that make way more sense in equipment utilization than building a shop for every person.

BobbyJo 5y ago
Everyone owning their own car or bike doesn't make much sense either from a resource utilization standpoint either, but given the choice...
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- DarylZero 5y ago
  Sharing would be _preferable_ by choice, since you could make one-way trips, but given the coordination problem...
driscoll42 5y ago
Sure... but then you also need to make sure you are close to them. I used to belong to a hackerspace, but it was a 30-45 minute bus/bike ride from my place and eventually quit. It was and is a great resource, but nothing beats just walking into your garage/basement to do the work you want.
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actually_a_dog 5y ago
Yes, and I have space in my apartment for a home office/lab/hobby room, too. I'm not able to do a lot involving machinery or chemicals & such, but I am able to maintain a home computer lab, digital macro photography setup, and still have space for work/office use.
t-writescode 5y ago
I think this underestimates just how important having "My Shop" laid out in "My Way" is for developers and thinkers. Imagine if all of your production code was developed on a Library desktop with a single user login, or a 100kb folder that could be yours and everything else had to be public.
- DarylZero 5y ago
  Kind of except hackerspace shouldn't be like generic librarian setup, it should be more like ongoing iterative collaboration of experts to create something ready for beginners to jump in.
  - t-writescode 5y ago
    if I've gathered anything from looking at a few shops of skilled people online it's that their shops are very particular, set up in just that way, with the inventory organized in just a different way, and with machines in a particular format or order for just that reason. It's very personal to each person.
    - DarylZero 5y ago
      Check our Fireball Tool. Just about anybody who does that kind of work (metal fabrication) would prefer that shop over whatever they customized to their idiosyncrasies. That's the kind of thing that a collaborative space can aspire to.
- prawn 5y ago
  A bigger issue might be the ability to leave a workspace and project in a state of progress, rather than cleaning up at the end of a session for someone to use the area after you. I'm all for shared spaces/tools at the block level because what we do now feels crazy, but my garage/shed are a permanent mess. I never have time to complete a full project in one go.

BobbyJo 5y ago

Everyone owning their own car or bike doesn't make much sense either from a resource utilization standpoint either, but given the choice...

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DarylZero 5y ago
Sharing would be _preferable_ by choice, since you could make one-way trips, but given the coordination problem...

driscoll42 5y ago

Sure... but then you also need to make sure you are close to them. I used to belong to a hackerspace, but it was a 30-45 minute bus/bike ride from my place and eventually quit. It was and is a great resource, but nothing beats just walking into your garage/basement to do the work you want.

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actually_a_dog 5y ago

Yes, and I have space in my apartment for a home office/lab/hobby room, too. I'm not able to do a lot involving machinery or chemicals & such, but I am able to maintain a home computer lab, digital macro photography setup, and still have space for work/office use.

t-writescode 5y ago

I think this underestimates just how important having "My Shop" laid out in "My Way" is for developers and thinkers. Imagine if all of your production code was developed on a Library desktop with a single user login, or a 100kb folder that could be yours and everything else had to be public.

DarylZero 5y ago
Kind of except hackerspace shouldn't be like generic librarian setup, it should be more like ongoing iterative collaboration of experts to create something ready for beginners to jump in.
- t-writescode 5y ago
  if I've gathered anything from looking at a few shops of skilled people online it's that their shops are very particular, set up in just that way, with the inventory organized in just a different way, and with machines in a particular format or order for just that reason. It's very personal to each person.
  - DarylZero 5y ago
    Check our Fireball Tool. Just about anybody who does that kind of work (metal fabrication) would prefer that shop over whatever they customized to their idiosyncrasies. That's the kind of thing that a collaborative space can aspire to.
prawn 5y ago
A bigger issue might be the ability to leave a workspace and project in a state of progress, rather than cleaning up at the end of a session for someone to use the area after you. I'm all for shared spaces/tools at the block level because what we do now feels crazy, but my garage/shed are a permanent mess. I never have time to complete a full project in one go.