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Bike Zone: Jeff Bricker
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Classroom - Matt Arnold
A quiet clean workspace with reconfigurable tables to do clean work or teach classes in.
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CNC - Thad Johnson
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Craft Room - Kevin Flory
SUMMARY: Clean-side floorspace for at least 4 equipment pieces with a window is foundational; all 6 pieces and a window is great!
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Expands support for ink/paper activities, scissors/X-Acto/glues.
Possible merge with Vinyl if coordinator agrees. Possible storage for letterpress dependent on stuff.
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Why Not Share Tables With Commons?
Electronics lab - Nate Bezanson
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Fab Lab - Amelia Meyer
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Injection Molding - Thad Johnson
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Jewelry: Tanya Tkaczt, Lewis Dennison
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Kiln Zone - Nes, Jody
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Laser - Mike
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Leathercraft - Karianne Gottschalk, Chris Bohinsky
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Machine Shop - Tony Slover
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Media Lab: Robert A. Burns
The Media Lab currently provides valuable hardware and software resources for people to create a range of video, graphic, and audio content as well as 2D and 3D designs that may exist virtually or as real world materials through large format printing, laser cutting, 3D printing, vinyl cutting, etc.
For the new version of the zone, I would like to see more desk space for an additional workstation and/or for people with laptops to work. I also imagine expanding upon our abilities to facilitate photography and videography, whether that be documenting of projects, live streaming, or forms of creative expression through moving images, still images, or emergent media technologies.
The far wall of the elab could work as a potential permanent photo/video location with lighting hanging from above.
I don’t know what other zones think about this but I would not mind having the current craft room as the dedicated print room, with all the printers and print media. I’ll possibly be adding my personal dye-sublimation photo printer as well.
Classes are a challenge considering the number of workstations and software licenses we have but I’ve had some success with small one on one sessions. I’d like to expand on this in the new zone and work on better ways to hold classes or perhaps create media lab oriented tutorial videos.
*no files included yet at the end section but working on 3D layout of future Media Lab
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Tool Crib - Evan
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Vinyl: Charlie
The vinyl zone is the place to make fantastical stickers and signs.
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Welding: Jody
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Woodshop - Greg Smith, Thomas Tufts, Greg Good
The wood shop wants to become a shop that lends itself to production work as well as have workspace that can be used by other zones through collaborative projects. They’d like to add tools to help others learn fine woodworking skills, such as finish cabinetry, joinery, and luthierie (instrument building) as well as space to make large furniture projects in-house.
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Automotive: Brandon Biller, Frank la marca
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Just a zone to work on cars
Start with a car lift and slowly buy automotive equipment, a lot of tools we have already
A zone to learn basic auto repair from other working on their cars, as well as a place to do some customization or more intensive repairs for those more experienced. There are lots of challenges size needed to maneuver vehicles, safety of lifting vehicles, disposal/cleanup of fluids, people leaving their cars behind. A lot of people are drawn to working on automotive related projects, and this enables that.��"Auto lift, move the automotive tools box out of the tool crib, keep getting more specialized stuff.
Challenges: Fire code. Just need to do the firewall stuff."
Chemistry: Brad Tarratt
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My high school chemistry classes were run by a timid teacher and my classmates basically tortured the guy. I never went to college, so basically I've never really had a good situation to actually experience chemistry experiments, which is something I've always been curious about. Now I have a daughter, and I want to make sure that when she reaches the appropriate age she has access to a better chemistry education than I did. This will mean learning chemistry myself. I don't learn theory well without seeing things for myself, so I need a lab. I have been (very) slowly learning what I can about basic chemistry for probably a decade, and in the past six months I've ramped up what I'm learning and I've started maintaining a private wiki of projects I personally want to try. So far I'm keeping it simple and safe, but eventually I'll want to experiment with things that require a lot more caution.
I imagine I'm not the only person with a desire to do this. I know we tried it before, I know it didn't go well. That was before we had cameras. I think we can do it with the right amount of accountability and precautions in place.
Clean Commons+Multimedia: James
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The Conference Room: Charlie
A clean and quiet area for those of us who aren't currently making giant messes. This area can be shared space for clean classes or lectures or meetings.
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Foundry: Jonathan Devine, Brian Logsdon
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https://hackaday.com/2019/03/07/blacksmithing-for-the-uninitiated-what-is-a-forge/
Kitchen - Inaudible Paul
The kitchen zone is a place for the community to gather and come together. We will develop food preparation and teaching facility to further our non-profit goals and increase the sense of community among i3 members.
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Glassblowing: Jamie
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A glassblowing zone would allow hot glass work, not just blowing glass, but also making fused glass sculptures. It would expand the capabilities of the glass kiln because the glass kiln can't be used for hot work. This would attract new members because a furnace is not a common piece of home DIY equipment, and because we have other tools, such as the kiln and jewelry zone, that would complement the glass art that could be created with the glassblowing zone. The main new piece of equipment would be a furnace that's capable of melting glass. This zone doesn't currently have a user base, but if we had the equipment I would expect the zone to become stable in a couple years. For right now, space consideration for a glass furnace is the only thing necessary. Other tools and workbenches can probably be shared with other zones and/or acquired over time.
Letterpress: Ashley Lesser
There are four main categories of printmaking: relief (e.g., the letterpress, block printing), intaglio (e.g., etching), lithography, and screenprinting. My personal focus is and will likely remain relief printing, but if there's interest in related arts, the zone could expand its scope. The main challenges are obtaining better equipment, and raising awareness among the membership of the printing tools and what can be done with them. Better equipment in the short term would mean a press/presses with a larger bed, deeper impression, and automatic inking rollers. Printing is fairly accessible to newbies, but still interesting at an advanced level. The best part of having printing equipment in the space is that you can do experimental things like making your own type on the laser or CNC, and take all the time you need to work on your project.
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No Phone Lounge - Santana, Emily
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Imagine the television show Mad Men, and a lounge straight from that era, combined with a 80's arcade with full neon carpet and a fully stocked bar that combines the two
(Electron) Microscopy zone: Gardeski
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Submitting this as an idea for long term because I don't see anything being ready to move in for at least 9-12 months or so.
Going to need probably 100 ish square feet just for the SEM and shelves for parts and supplies and maybe a small workbench/table.
Obviously need a big beautiful display board to show off the awesome stuff people did. I'd assume that there's going to be non-negligable amounts of downtime for repairs and maintenance and we can't have people see this zone as a non-functional junk heap.
Paint Booth/Finishing/Powder Coating: Bravin Neff, Mike Fink, Greg Good
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A large open face paint booth (3 walls, a ceiling) approx 10' W x 7' H x 6' D with filters that vents to the outside, along with reconfigurable tables/carts and drying racks for letting paints and finishes dry/cure.
I'm not sure it actually merits a "zone" designation, but I am envisioning a paint booth roughly 4 times the size of the current one. Something with greater airflow volume (for "suction" of vapors), and that can accommodate larger parts. I paint guitars in the current paint booth and it is painfully tight in terms of the ability to rotate the part. Also, normally a guitar would be paint with a rotating stand whereby you move the guitar around during the painting process. This is impossible with the current paint booth.
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Sewing: Jan Henry
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Cutting work tables, fabric storage, project storage, large surfaces, large permanent ironing station, 3-way mirror/curtained dressing area. As it's technically a split from an existing zone, much of the current equipment in the proposed layout already exists. The work will be in the infrastructure of the room. Building the walls, adding temperature control, installing a floor conducive to fabric being dragged about, without it looking dirty and distressed. For battle cosplay, you might want that, but not for most projects involving fabric.
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