Any interest in hackerspace in Irvine, California USA

Hi

Would any ES members be interested in a hacker space in the Irvine CA area? This space would be setup to cater more to engineering types rather than crafters / wood workers. There would be 3d printing technology, cnc milling (full sized machining center), cnc router, cnc PCB mill, cad cam, electronics lab, wire feed welder, plasma cutter, and basic work shop tools (saws, drills, power tools etc.). classes for machine operation, shop practices, electronics, arduino, programming etc.

Thanks
Bill

Hi bill is that Irvine in the UK or US ? Or another Irvine somewhere else?

Craig

It's in California. Irvine is in south california about 1 and half hour to LA downtown. Been there long time ago.

Don't know if the UK has a 'SoCal,' but that's how locals say Southern California. Irvine is maybe 15 minutes from Disneyland.

Interesting location. Not sure why to locate there. Usually those hackerspaces are where people don't have the money to outfit their own garage. There's a tiny one in Fullerton that seems to at least be hanging on. Plus Pomona and 2 in LA area.

Maybe Irvine would need to be exotic to survive.

Craigh85 said:

Hi bill is that Irvine in the UK or US ? Or another Irvine somewhere else?
Craig

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Sorry, I had typed Irvine, CA into the subject but apparently exceeded the character count for the subject line!

This is Irvine CA USA

Dauntless said:

Don't know if the UK has a 'SoCal,' but that's how locals say Southern California. Irvine is maybe 15 minutes from Disneyland.

Interesting location. Not sure why to locate there. Usually those hackerspaces are where people don't have the money to outfit their own garage. There's a tiny one in Fullerton that seems to at least be hanging on. Plus Pomona and 2 in LA area.

Maybe Irvine would need to be exotic to survive.

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I don't know about exotic, but the idea would be to provide some machines and capabilities most people wouldn't likely have in their garage, but maybe I am way off on this.

Bill

Ah well I think its a great idea all the same. I had similar ideas to put together a shared work shop and target it toward trades men, hobby enthusiasts etc good things can come from bringing a variety of skills and ideas together in one place, much like ES. Good luck

grifftek said:

I don't know about exotic, but the idea would be to provide some machines and capabilities most people wouldn't likely have in their garage, but maybe I am way off on this.

Bill

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By exotic I mean beyond miscellaneous. A small welder, a drill press, these things that particular area a guy probably has something from Harbor Freight. The guy will probably need a real reason to join. But I don't live there myself, so of course I can't be sure. They do have such small garages there, maybe someone would be looking for space.

Why is everything so far out of the range of my e-bike? lol

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Why is everything so far out of the range of my e-bike? lol

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Can you make it to Riverside? UCR neighborhood? http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Vocademy

Oh, finding that I also came up with one on Sky Park Circle. 3 axis CNC mill, printed circuit board mill, 3D Printer: Kind of what I meant by exotic. http://www.edtric.com/co-op-engineering.html

One idea I've had for what might bring 'em in is a UAV shop. Meaning all sorts of people building UAV's, somehow a step up from a regular RC plane. A lot of open source stuff out there.

http://diydrones.com/

http://www.openpilot.org/

http://www.arducopter.co.uk/

Right now I can't get anywhere. Fractured elbow and broken frame due to evil curb incident on Saturday. I'm interested in the learning side of things. In other words I know a little but want to learn a lot more. I tried school but I couldn't do the complicated math which is required to earn a degree. I've always been more of an eyeball-er not taking into consideration bright blue evil curb previously mentioned.

When I took the ROP machine shop they actually DISCOURAGED me from trying to teach others to use sine/cosine functions that the others really wanted to learn. This was self taught, I'm just now taking Trigonometry and struggling with learning the "Right" way to do what I've done for years using what they're calling "Eyeball math." You get in a habit, that becomes the REAL reason you struggle. I grew up with the absolute top scores in math aptitude, here I'm having trouble with it, because I can find a way without. Maybe you don't realize you're actually possessing great math potential once you readjust.

Sometimes the ROP will have the opportunity to learn "Shop Math" in either the machine shop, the welding, etc. That's what the NIMS certificate program would call "Mensuration," or measurement. You're learning stuff a lot of people start doing in gradeschool, but not everyone; dimensions, etc. are tough for a lot of people.

Unfortunately, with the bad economy ROP has gone from $20-40 for an adult to a few hundred for a session, but if it's a good program locally it's still a good deal.

You can figure out what classes near you you're interested in right here: http://www.schoolgauge.com/catalog/sbcrop I believe the machine shop is called manufacturing technology there, names of things can vary.

What I have a problem with is retention. I can learn it but then I forget it 5 minutes later. I have a good memory just not for math. I'm good with percentages, fractions and spacial math. I actually found trigonometry to be easier than other forms of math. I'm good with dimensions.

Hey Guys,

My name is Wess and I am actually the owner/founder of edtric the co-op engineering (hacker space) in Irvine, California. I did not adopt the term "hacker space" specifically because I would like for our place/community we build here to be innovation/tech centric. In fact two of the projects I plan on launching soon are an open source UAV (end to end elctro mechanical i.e. we will sell for example open airframe designs etc...) and an open source autonomous car. Open source in the sense that the data will be open source but membership will be required so that the efforts could be sustained. This big dreamy stuff is probably still about 1-1.5 years out unless we grow faster than expected. We are having our grand opening May 4th and we have a growing Meetup page if you would like to keep track of our events http://www.meetup.com/edtric/.

For those of you talking about Riverside locations. You should check out http://www.vocademy.com/ I believe we need more and more places like this around the country and I am happy to see them popping up.

Cheers,

Wess