Java Jumpstart – Makerspace

Jumpstart your day. Jumpstart your Startup and Jumpstart Evansville’s Innovation Ecosystem.

Java Jumpstart will be an opportunity to meet informally for a cup of java and some good conversation.

This is your chance to be involved with initiatives to support Evansville’s Innovation Ecosystem. You will meet like minded people, make great connections, learn some things and help Evansville become an Innovation Community.

At this week’s Java Jumpstart we will be discussing the potential of launching a MAKERSPACE ( a.k.a.hacker space) as a follow on to the new co-work space. If you aren’t sure about what a Makerspace is skip to the bottom.

Early ideas are focusing on the potential to include space supporting experimentation and prototyping with 3D Printing, Robotics/Automation and Arduino and Raspberry Pi boards.

Join us to learn more and be your own force in shaping the future of our Innovation Community.

To describe them simply, makerspaces are community centers with tools. Makerspaces combine manufacturing equipment, community, and education for the purposes of enabling community members to design, prototype and create manufactured works that wouldn’t be possible to create with the resources available to individuals working alone. These spaces can take the form of loosely-organized individuals sharing space and tools, for-profit companies, non-profit corporations, organizations affiliated with or hosted within schools, universities or libraries, and more. All are united in the purpose of providing access to equipment, community, and education, and all are unique in exactly how they are arranged to fit the purposes of the community they serve.

Makerspaces represent the democratization of design, engineering, fabrication and education. They are a fairly new phenomenon, but are beginning to produce projects with significant national impacts.