Innovating at the Makerspace
Our manager Alex Nunn was featured on the Live Free and Start site! Read this write-up on how our makerspace is a viable resource for innovators and start-ups: Click here to read the full article.
Letter to the Editor of the Portsmouth Herald
Jan. 23 — To the Editor:
A big thumbs up to Port City Makerspace for hosting a movie night fund-raiser to benefit the Hodgson Brook Restoration Project.
The movie “Lost Rivers” was shown to a large audience last Monday evening at Makerspace and raised an impressive amount of donations, which will be used this summer to install residential rain gardens in the watershed.
“Lost Rivers” tells the story of how, once upon a time, in almost every industrial city, countless rivers flowed. We built houses along their banks. Our roads hugged their curves and their currents fed our mills and factories. But as cities grew, we polluted rivers so much that they became conduits for deadly waterborne diseases like cholera, which was the 19th century’s version of the Black Plague. Our solution two centuries ago was to bury rivers underground and merge them with sewer networks.
Today we are looking for ways to unearth rivers like Hodgson Brook in order to improve water quality and provide opportunities for wildlife and residents to enjoy them.
It was particularly wonderful to be able to show the movie at Makerspace, given that for the past 100-plus years, Hodgson Brook has been redirected through a large culvert directly under the building, so close yet so far from sunlight.
Bringing Hodgson Brook back to life will take years and a lot of commitment, but with the help of residents and businesses such as Makerspace, we are well on our way.
Candace Dolan
Hodgson Brook Watershed Coordinator
Portsmouth
New Hampshire Business Review
Port City Makerspace gives crafters, tinkerers and techies a place to create
The new rules for crafters, hackers and tinkerers
BY ALEXANDRA PECCI
PHOTO BY CHERYL SENTER
Tanya Hakala of Dover has always been crafty and interested in DIY projects, but she’s been limited to using small hand tools and other supplies that she can store in her home. She doesn’t have the space in her house for, say, an embroidery machine. Not many people do.
But these days, she’s not only got access…
Read the full article here:
http://www.nhbr.com/November-29-2013/Port-City-Makerspace-gives-crafters-tinkerers-and-techies-a-place-to-create/
Television Feature on Chronicle by Cindy Jones
Cindy Jones did a really great job putting together this little segment about us for a television spot that aired on Chronicle on WMUR 9. Unfortunately their video player is not embed-able so click the image below to view it!
Boing Boing Post
We invited the one and only Corey Doctrow to visit our space and he posted about it! Read the post here
We were featured on Public Radio
Port City Makerspace was featured in an audio postcard by Todd Bookman on NHPR. If you didn’t catch us on the radio you can listen online on the NHPR website.