By Kalena Reynolds | Staff Writer
Located on 1211 Webster Ave., the Maker’s Edge Makerspace has been a hub of creativity for the people of Waco and Baylor students for 10 years. With an array of tools and stations available, the space encourages everyone from children to seniors to stop by, assisting with creative endeavors.
Maker’s Edge was founded by Rick and Melissa Pardun to provide a creative space for the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) community to develop prototypes.
Rick and Melissa are “DIY-ers” to their core and have a strong love of combining “thinking with doing,” as Melissa said. When Rick and Melissa got married, they even built their house with their own hands.
“Day one we cleared the land,” Melissa said. “We bought the land. He learned how to drive a bulldozer. I learned how to drive a backhoe. So he cleared the…