ROSWELL, Ga. — Roswell Firelabs serves as a playground for visitors who like to tinker and create.
“It’s basically like a recreation center for your brain,” Roswell Firelabs Executive Director William Strika said, sitting in the facility’s multi-purpose room. The room is home to electronics, HAM radio and sewing/cosplay workstations.
“It’s just like somebody who goes to a gym to work out for physical strength,” Strika said. “You come here to kind of exercise your brain.”
Strika got together with a few people in 2017 and later pitched an idea to the Roswell City Council to convert the newly vacated fire station on Holcomb Bridge Road into a makerspace. Roswell Firelabs, a volunteer-driven nonprofit, opened in November 2018 with 40 members.
