Preface

Welcome to the world of tomorrow! What started off in the basements of hardware hackers and the minds of science fiction authors has blossomed into one of the world’s foremost places for innovation and design: the Makerspace. These spaces for creation have emerged as a safe haven for tinkerers, artists, engineers, scientists, and anyone with an inspired spirit to tap into their imaginations and create.

So, where do you draw the line between a run-of-the-mill shop and a Makerspace? Well, the answer isn’t easy to define. Makerspaces serve as portals for learning, collaboration, problem solving, and self expression, and rapidly evolve and reconfigure to support the interesting and new. Where a shop strives to support a common set of tools ...

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