Dallas Makerspace
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| Formation | July 30th 2010 |
|---|---|
| Founders | Mark R. Havens Steve Rainwater Glenn Pipe Peter Smith Ed Paradis |
| Founded at | Dallas, Texas |
| Legal status | Texas non-profit corporation 501(c)(3) |
| Purpose | Education |
| Headquarters | Carrollton, Texas |
| Services | Shared community workshop, laboratory, and educational facility |
President | Kris Anderson |
Secretary | Luke Strickland |
| Kris Anderson S Charles Baber Steve Blanchard David Kessinger Luke Strickland | |
| Affiliations | Dallas Personal Robotics Group |
| Website | https://dallasmakerspace.org/ |
Dallas Makerspace[1][lower-alpha 1] (DMS) is a hackerspace located in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex.[citation needed] DMS promotes practical education in science, technology, engineering, and the industrial and fine arts by organizing and providing facilities for lectures, workshops, presentations, and equipment training sessions.[citation needed] It also has large workshops for specific topics, including a fully featured wood shop, metal shop and machine shop.[citation needed]
DMS was founded by members of the Dallas Personal Robotics Group[4][5] (DPRG) and "has been a membership based, 501(c)(3) non-profit, shared community workshop and laboratory since 2010"[6]
Description[edit]
Every month, Dallas Makerspace hosts an average of 250 educational events and classes.[citation needed] Classes range from basic training for workshop tools to week long classes on Software Development.[citation needed] Most of the classes are available to the public to learn various trade skills, a majority are at no-cost to the public.[citation needed] A yearly Board of Directors is elected by the voting membership to govern.[citation needed] Different topics are split out into over 25 committees, for independent organization.[citation needed]
The facilities are open to members 24 hours a day, seven days a week.[4] Cost of membership ranges from $35 to $50 a month, with a majority of the tools being immediately available to new members.[7]
Culturally, members of Dallas Makerspace encourage each other, support each other, and work together to help induct new members so as to replicate the movement into the future.[8]
Notability[edit]
As of summer of 2017, Dallas Makerspace had a paying membership base of 1500, "making it one of the largest, if not the largest, nonprofit, volunteer-run makerspaces in the country" according to Dallas Morning News.[4] In 2016, it was "the largest makerspace in the country based on its membership size"[9] according to Dallas Innovates.[10] In addition, Pinball Magazine claims that Dallas Makerspace "is now one of the largest Makerspaces in the U.S., if not the largest."[11] As of 29 May 2018, the nonprofit had 1786 paying members.[12]
Dallas Makerspace was featured in Dale Dougherty's[lower-alpha 2][lower-alpha 3] 2016 book, Free to Make: How the Maker Movement is Changing Our Schools, Our Jobs, and Our Minds.[14] In his book, Dougherty describes various details[lower-alpha 4] while visting DMS in 2011 and 2013, and indicated that between the two visits, DMS "had doubled the amount of space they had, and [that] memberships had grown from 80 to 240."[14]
In 2011, Luria Petrucci[lower-alpha 5] hosted an episode[lower-alpha 6] of GeekBeat.TV featuring Dallas Makerspace.[17]
Notable History[edit]
Dallas Makerspace donated a Lasersaur[18][lower-alpha 7] laser cutter to Foothills Community Workshop[lower-alpha 8][21] after it was "totally destroyed by fire".[22][23]
Tools and Equipment Offered[edit]
Dallas Makerspace provides over 100 professional tools and equipment for making, building and learning.[24][25]
- 3D Fabrication - Numerous 3D Printers, Vacuum Former
- Blacksmithing - Induction forge, belt grinder
- Machining - Lathes, Mills, CNC mill
- Metalworking - Mig, Tig and Arc welding, CNC Plasma Cutter, Sheetmetal Brake and Shear
- Woodworking - Planer, Joiner, Tablesaws, CNC Router, Numerous Lathes
Footnotes[edit]
- ↑ Dallas Makerspace is an independent organization and not associated with Dale Dougherty[2], Maker Media[3] or Make magazine.
- ↑ Dale Dougherty is considered by some as the Father of the Maker Movement.[2]
- ↑ Dougherty is also the CEO of Maker Media,[3] a spin-off from O'Reilly Media.[13] The company publishes Make magazine, has an ecommerce site (Makershed), and conducts Maker Faires worldwide.
- ↑ In the section titled Dallas Makerspace, attention is given to various members of Dallas Makerspace and their projects, and issues that women struggle with in while attending male dominated makerspaces.[14]
- ↑ Also known as Cali Lewis,[15] host of GeekBeat.TV.[16]
- ↑ Season 3 Episode 4, 31 Jan 2011.[17]
- ↑ Lasersaur is an open source laser cutter which was developed by NORTD Labs.[19][20]
- ↑ Foothills Community Workshop is a Hackerspace in Granite Falls, North Carolina.
References[edit]
- ↑ "Dallas Makerspace".
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Betsy Corcoran (27 May 2017). "Dale Dougherty, Father of the Maker Movement Talks About Breaking Rules, Erasers & Building a Learning Culture".
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Maker Media
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Bustillos, Esteban. "Creators find camaraderie — and lifelong learning — at the Dallas Makerspace". The Dallas Morning News. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
- ↑ Rainwater, Steve. "DMS Insights". Dallas Personal Robotics Group. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
- ↑ Benton, Cristina and Mullins, Lori and Shelley, Kristin and Dempsey, Tim. "Makerspaces" (PDF). Retrieved 29 May 2018.CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
- ↑ Innovates, Dallas (2016-01-15). "If You Can Dream It, You Can Make It at the Dallas Makerspace » Dallas Innovates". Dallas Innovates. Retrieved 2018-05-02.
- ↑ McAlexander, Brandon (2017). "TECHNOCRAFT: THE ARTWORLDS OF CONSUMER CULTURE". Robert Mittelstaedt Doctoral Symposium: 79.
- ↑ "Not Sure Which DFW Makerspace Is Right For You? Here's Your Guide". Retrieved 31 May 2018.
- ↑ "Dallas Innovates".
- ↑ Joosten, Jonathan (2016). "Dallas Makerspace' VECTOR Committee". Pinball Magazine No. 4.
- ↑ "Dallas Makerspace Accounts". Dallas Makerspace. Retrieved 29 May 2018.
- ↑ TJ McCue (January 24, 2013). "More Than A Startup: MAKE Division Spins Out From O'Reilly Media as Separate Company". Forbes.
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 Dougherty, Dale (2016). Free to make: How the maker movement is changing our schools, our jobs, and our minds. North Atlantic Books. pp. 68–70. ISBN 978-1623170745. Search this book on
- ↑ Luria Petrucci interviewed on the TV show Triangulation on the TWiT.tv network
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on June 16, 2012. Retrieved May 31, 2018.CS1 maint: Archived copy as title (link)
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 Luria Petrucci (31 Jan 2011). A Look Inside the World of Hacker Spaces. GeatBeat.TV.
- ↑ Graves, George (4 June 2015). "Lasersaur that Cuts 1/2" Playwood and 10MM Acrylic (PEW-PEW)". Lackaday. Retrieved 6 June 2018.
- ↑ "Lasersaur: Open Source Laser Cutter by nortd - Kickstarter". Kickstarter.com. Retrieved 2018-05-31.
- ↑ "Lasersaur by Nortd Labs". Lasersaur.com. Retrieved 2018-05-31.
- ↑ "Foothills Community Workshop". Retrieved 2018-05-31.
- ↑ "FIRE!!!!". Retrieved 2018-05-31.
- ↑ "Arts and Crafts Area Partially Operationa". Retrieved 2018-05-31.
- ↑ 24.0 24.1 "Dallas Makerspace Tools". Dallas Makerspace. Retrieved 30 May 2018.
- ↑ 25.0 25.1 van Holm, Eric Joseph. "Makerspaces and local economic development". Economic Development Quarterly. 2 (31): 164–173.
External links[edit]
Coordinates: 32°56′27″N 96°54′22″W / 32.940737°N 96.905991°W
- Dallas Makerspace Official Website
- Calendar of Classes / Events
- Creators find camaraderie — and lifelong learning — at the Dallas Makerspace
- At Dallas Makerspace, All the Tools (and Friends) You Need to Make the Stuff You Want
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