After a cuppa at Wise Owl Cafe in the University’s Walter Science and Engineering Library, discovered The Toaster, a room filled with freely available maker gear, including 3D printers, Cricuts and LEGO. Resisted the temptation then walked to the School of Architecture where students were presenting their portfolios displayed on large panels. It was then time for the second body scan of the day.
What a fabulous resource! Here in the UK, we now have a Surrey Lending Library team responding to ever-decreasing footfall with a new initiative, a Library of Things that can be hired, a bit like Stewart Brand’s roving toolshed vehicle before he started work on the Whole Earth Catalogue in 1968. All I can say is, they would like to add a 3D printer, but currently they have a sewing machine, garden tools, and a pressure washer.
Tom have you started to read Brand’s The Maintenance Race? You’d enjoy I think, particularly because he’s publishing it on line section by section and building in reviewer comments: https://books.worksinprogress.co/book/maintenance-of-everything/addenda/page/introduction …
Also because he keeps adding more tangents to his thesis that maintenance is the number one priority of all of us, which I get!
Thanks for the link, Jerry: duly added to my reading list. I’m particularly impressed with this maker space for seniors in Honolulu:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2gHU1VvxMnw
I want one of these in our neighborhood.