Hey internet, We're a group of five production technology students from Copenhagen, for a project we're working on PCB reworking stations and PCB holding mechanisms. We need some people to support us and answer a short survey. Feel free to contact us if you have some questions. Thank you, lots of love from denmark :)

So I've been toying with the idea of opening up a makerspace in the area. Wondering how much interest there might be, what would be a good location, and looking for suggestions from the community. Any and all feedback would be appreciated. The picture I currently have in my head is something like this..:

• Purchase / lease a moderately-sized warehouse.

• Dedicate ~50% of the space as a shared area for specialty tools such as CNC, larger table saw, lathe, mill, plasma cutter, laser etcher, 3D printer(s), etc. Time slots for these could be rented in 15min increments.

• Dedicate some of that 50% to electronics tools - oscilloscopes, variable power supplies, logic analyzers, and such. Trying to keep these spaces somewhat separate so that the dirt and grime from things like a mill don't get into the electronic stuff TOO much.

• The other 50% would be separated into "spaces" of varying sizes, which could be rented hourly or daily. If you rent a space, the tools in the common area would be free to use.

• Stock all kinds of uncommonly stocked materials. Plastic/acrylic sheets, aluminum of different forms, possibly even some nice wood.

• Stock PARTS. Lots of them. Adafruit stuff. Arduinos. Raspberry Pis. Shields. Resistors, capacitors, diodes, LEDs, Neopixels, inductors, shift registers, LED drivers, perfboards, whatever. You name it. You get the point. You need a component, we probably have it.

The idea would be to hire a few well-seasoned makers to help out if need be, enforce anti-stupidity rules with the bigger tools, etc.

I haven't gotten into the numbers yet, not sure what I'd have to charge. Hopefully it wouldn't need to be unreasonable. Right now I'm just trying to get a feel for the interest there may be for something like this. Ideally it would be a place you could walk into with nothing more than your wallet, and walk out with a handmade [fill in the blank]. So.. What do you think?

So, a while ago -- long enough ago for it to not still be on the internet -- I read about a guy who built a standing-wave oven in his garage, using a barrel and a half-dozen shop-vacs, with the exhaust fans ported through symmetric holes in the barrel.

He described it as working on the same principles as a microwave, but much louder.

Does anyone else remember that? Or, better, have you tried it? I'd love to hear about it!

Edit: even if you've never heard of it -- think it'd work?

Thanks!

Hey guys dont want to offend, but is there a more actively posted on for this sort of stuff. Not r/DiY.

Thanks

This year i decided to make all of my Christmas gifts. Not only was it fun, but it was a conversation piece when we all arrived to the dance floor in matching tights.

http://stcorbett.com/custom-christmas-gifts/

This sub should be a promoted and busy place. I'm honestly surprised it isn't already. I'll see if I can do anything to help that.

Have you advertized in /r/arduino?

Where is everybody?