Matt Filipski, my first student at Littleton Common Makers, tests out a chisel he’s learning to sharpen by hand on oilstones.I’m very excited to announce that Littleton Common Makers is now open! This is the makerspace I first wrote about in this blog post.The purpose of a makerspace is to provide a workspace and community for people who like to make things, but don’t have space or equipment of their own to do it. This covers the whole range of making, from low-tech to high-tech, for hobbyists and professionals.One of the real values in a makerspace is that it provides access to a number of disciplines and facilitates cross-pollination across them. This includes electronics, …
