Rant

America, the land where anyone with a dream can take that dream...head down to the local venture capitalist and get a bucket full of cash to sell their idea and soul to the machine for some green paper that loses value each year.

How can I help?

The current state of innovation in the United States has stagnated into a pigs trough of take someone else's idea that was created in the past to solve a problem and add the latest buzz words to it.

This is a battle cry, bring back the innovation, the hackers, the fiddlers the junkyard creators.

I have been considering the idea of opening up a maker space in my local area. We are a college town, and I want to impart some of the good ole 'get er done' attitude on the current generation. The show me before I do anything generation needs to grow into the tinker with it until I break it or it works wisdom.

So what does a modern maker space need to bring wisdom to the young?
For a short list I was thinking.

• Tools
• Workbenches
• Forge
• Computers/Parts
• Teensy's or rasperry pi's
• A 3d printer or two with different materials.
• A place to brainstorm, so whiteboards and couches.

How can you help?

Share your ideas and thoughts on how I can make this happen. Once I work out all the details I will keep you posted on the progress here on the site.

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