Photo by JP EichmillerThese ornaments were built with a TechShop laser cutter.
Community facility helps build ideas into realities
Inventors, dreamers and fabricators now have a place to call their own in Round Rock. TechShop, a membership-based community workshop, offers customers the use of specialty equipment, tools and computers to design, build and assemble whatever they choose.
TechShop opened Oct. 13 in the La Frontera shopping center next to Lowe's and features 18,000 square feet of space and more than $2 million worth of equipment, TechShop Facilities Manager Cale Bessent said. TechShop membership has grown from 100 in October to more than 400 in January.
"You can build whatever you want," Bessent said. "We've seen some wild stuff in here."
