What’s a ‘maker space’? Think of a gym, “except instead of gym equipment, we have tools,” said Doug Clarke, founder of Kre- 8Now Makerspace in Lexington. “My business brings together people who like to build stuff and I provide the tools and the space to do it.”
Clarke formed the business in October 2012. At the time, he and five other people were interested in a maker space. Now more than 100 members of the maker community take advantage of the equipment and tools in the building.
Clarke moved Kre8Now from Manchester Street to an 8,700-square-foot facility on Codell Drive, near Woodhill Circle Plaza on New Circle Road, at the beginning of June. There’s a machine shop and welding shop, sewing machines and quilting machines, 3D printers and screen printing equipment, hand tools and a laser engraver — even a podcast recording studio. As for the…