coolest place ever

This might be just about the coolest idea I've ever seen.

http://www.techshop.ws/

"TechShop is a fully-equipped open-access workshop and creative environment that lets you drop in any time and work on your own projects at your own pace. It is like a health club with tools and equipment instead of exercise equipment...a Kinko's for geeks.

The TechShop workshop provides a wide variety of machinery and tools for the open and unlimited use of its members, including milling machines and lathes, welding stations and plasma cutters, sheet metal working equipment, drill presses and band saws, industrial sewing machines, hand tools, plastic working equipment, electronics design and fabrication facilities, tubing and metal bending machines, electrical supplies and tools, and pretty much everything you'd ever need to make just about anything all by yourself."

So they have 15,000 square feet with every tool you've ever imagined in your entire life.

They have classes where you build a goddamn working hot rod. Or a working steam boat. Or play with plasma welders. Look at this freakin equipment page. Or this class list.

Want to design something in 3D CAD, and have a machine carve it for you? Done. Plastics injection molding? Build a combat robot? Yep, they have that too. There's classes on blacksmithing, airbrushing.... my mind reels at how cool this is. They do not fuck around.

They're having an open house on Sept 9th, and I'm definitely going, if anyone wants to come with me.