At the Central Rappahannock Regional Library’s IdeaSpace, you can 3D print a prototype of your latest invention, record your band’s latest song, upload your home movies from VHS to the cloud or design and sew a costume for cosplay.
Basically, if you have an idea, the staff and equipment at IdeaSpace can probably help you turn it into reality and put it into the world.
“It’s voluntary free education and empowerment,” said Simon Watts, one of the IdeaSpace’s four staff members. “You never know what kind of creative will come in here.”
IdeaSpace, which is located in a rehabbed office building on Princess Anne Street in what’s now known as the Canal Quarter, is Watts’ brainchild.
Fredericksburg in 2019 approved a zoning plan for that area that established a Creative Maker District, encouraging the use of existing older buildings for light manufacturing…
