Foothill College Makerspace
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Krause Center for Innovation
Overview
December 2, 2017 Jim Schrempp
I toured their open house today. It is a very nice, office-like setting. It used to be a computer lab and still has lots of computers on desks. The computers all have Fusion 360, CorelDraw, not sure about Illustrator.
Keith Blackey (former TS member/instructor) is working there.
This place is good, but only for design or hobby work, no ETSY manufacturing.
Details
- Cost per member is $160 per quarter, "including materials"
- Anyone with a Foothill student ID can use the space for free.
- Anyone who takes a class offered at the Krause center can use the space for free.
- They currently have 30 member slots, all of which are taken. They use this to control their roll out. They plan to let everyone join that wants to.
- They have a one year $500,000 grant, renewable at the end of the year. The grant requires them to have one faculty member on site whenever the lab is open.
- Foothill College gives them the space for free
- They are open M-Th 9-8, F 9-6, Sat 9-4
Mission
They are education focused. Small run manufacturing is not in their vision today.
They said that in year 2 Foothill might give them additional space else where on campus and they might add a woodshop or other light manufacturing tools. Not sure they will ever be a place for an ETSY user to get 10 hours of laser time to make stuff for their store.
Equipment
- One new Epilog 60w laser. Members can reserve it for one hour at a time.
- Dremel table top laser cutter on order.
- Several Dremel 3d printers.
- 2 resin based 3D printers.
- 2 Dremel hobbyist tabletop routers.
- A hobbyist vinyl cutter.
- A sewing machine
- Tables, but not to make a huge mess.
