TechShop: A Xerox PARC for the rest of us

I especially liked the looks of these classes:

http://www.techshop.ws/take_classes.html#245

btw, I am in no way affiliated with the TechShop, just thought it looked cool and designed specifically for hackers.

What I really would love to see is a commercial version of this concept attached to the warehouse of one of the big parts companies.

Imagine a hacker space with 5 minute delivery from Newark?

See also the hackerspace movment.

Not the same at all--the HN title is a little misleading. Membership (pricey!) buys you access to $500,000 worth of tools and facilities, not just outlets and comfy chairs/wacky furniture. I've been complaining for years about not being able to do physical projects because I don't have access to a machine shop, and, well, now I can, for $125/mo. Excellent idea.

It's true. It's much better outfitted than most hackerspaces. But I thought that these were having problems becoming profitable? I could be just remembering things wrong...