What I Learned from the Cincinnati MakerSpace, part 2: Maker Mondays

Last week, I mentioned that I visited the Cincinnati Public Library to see its fantastic MakerSpace. It is a large, open space located on the second floor that houses an impressive number of various maker tools, including a green screen, a recording booth, a 3D printer and more. They also have some low tech maker tools like button makers. And they make all of their Ellison/Accucut dies available to the public. It looks something like this:

My colleague who visited with me noted that they had done a lot of things right. For one, they re-used a lot of older furniture in the space which gave it a studio feel; you felt more like you could were really free to work in the space and weren’t worried about ruining new furniture. The money undoubtedly went into all the equipment that they had.

I thought they…