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Lacey MakerSpace
Lacey
This nonprofit community resource, located at St. Martin's University, provides
community access to a wide variety of fabrication tools: 3-D printers, a CNC
plasma cutter, a laser cutter and engravers, CNC routers, and more. Within
months of its soft opening, the facility already had 90 subscribers, from
entrepreneurs making prototypes to small-scale e-commerce builders.
Conner Snow sets up a project on the
laser engraver, the facility’s most popular
tool (which made the Manufacturing
Week logo at lower left). Snow, also
a senior at St. Martin's University
studying mechanical engineering,
said that his job at the maker space
has been a great way to augment his
classwork. “The stuff we learn about
in our manufacturing classes — we’re
actually doing it,” Snow said. “It makes
it make more sense, that’s for sure —
actually implementing it.”
Center: “The goal is to be a business incubator and
grow the local economy, to be a catalyst for that,”
said Joseph Anderson, manager of the new Lacey
MakerSpace (pictured with Graeme Sackrison,
chair of the facility’s executive committee).