Here in Virginia, I have been supporting Nova Labs – a local makerspace that has fueled my maker passion and inspired my latest hobbies – 3D printing and laser cutting. I was curious to see how I could continue to make things with a drastically smaller set of tools at my disposal while temporarily in California.

Well, good news!

The Stanford Mechanical Engineering department has a sub-department that fills – and goes way beyond – the makerspace capabilities that I currently use. For those of you who like to make things, you need to check this out…

http://productrealization.stanford.edu/

I will definitely fill some of my electives in PRL.