Imagine you had a space at your work where you could go during your free time to design and construct personal projects, all with company resources. If you work for Microsoft on its Redmond campus, that is actually a reality.
Over the last couple of years, Microsoft has been on a campaign to change the company’s internal way of thinking, and with that came a change in how the company operates – publicly as well as internally.
Realising that employees with free time wanted a space with equipment to work on physical side projects and build prototypes, it created The Garage in Building 27 South in 2009.
Inside the facility, members of the maker community have access to 3D printers, laser cutters, CNC machines, soldering irons, Arduino boards, Raspberry Pis, Galileo boards and a host of electronic equipment.
“The Garage story is really the story about how Microsoft is…
