It’s almost ready.
The Boxer Makerspace has been a dream for years, but it becomes real in September, when it officially opens its doors to the Pacific community.
The new center, on the second floor of the Tim and Cathy Tran Library on the Forest Grove Campus, houses specialized equipment and workspaces for designing almost anything a user can imagine, from an improved hearing aid earpiece to a chocolate drop. Individual students or entire classes can use the Makerspace’s 3D printers, precision drills, circuit board makers, antique letter press, vacuum formbox and other equipment to create prototypes from their own designs.
Makerspace and Berglund Center director J. Andy Soria said he’s next considering the purchase of a large-format 3D printer; the kind of machine that could print something as large as a prosthetic limb, for example.
Most of the other equipment has been…
