An Inventors Playground

San Francisco is home to an inventors dream. While many inventors are known for working out of their garage, TechShop allows them to leave the garage or basement and work on their creations in a workshop dedicated to inventing, reports ABC 7. For as little as $99 per month, their members have access to thousands of dollars worth of machines and tools that can assist them in their inventing adventures.

“I will never bet against the American spirit and we are not done with manufacturing in the United States,” said Mark Hatch.

Hatch runs the expanding company that is betting on the American entrepreneurial spirit. We’re long past the days of your grandfather’s assembly line, he says. Where before, big companies held the keys to industrial success, tech shop is about empowerment.

“And what we have done is given people access to the tools of the industrial revolution for the cost of a bad coffee addiction,” said Hatch.

Tech Shop is an enclave of creativity, like a thousand little start-ups. If you need access to a helix laser, no problem. They’ll train you. When Sean Feley came to the shop a year ago, he knew nothing about welding. Now, he’s building a soap box car, just for the fun of it.

“There is certainly a goal, here. And, that drives you to learn the things you want to do,” said Feley.

And Tech Shop provides you with what you need to do it, from precise machinery, to computers which help design products and talk to that machinery.

Photo from TechShop

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