I3 Detroit
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| Status | active |
| Country | United States of America |
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| City | Ferndale |
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2009/04/01 |
| Last Updated | 2013-05-10 |
| Website | http://www.i3detroit.com/ |
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+1(248)556-9995 |
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1481 Wordsworth, Ferndale |
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Number of members |
108 |
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Membership fee |
$89 per month (USD) for core members, who get a key and a vote. $39 per month (USD) for Coder/Crafter members, who get a key and are encouraged to upgrade if they find themselves using the heavy tools a lot. Members may invite guests, who are encouraged to donate $5 or whatever per day for their use. Reduced-dues options are available. |
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8000 ft² |
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| Location | 42° 27' 13" N, 83° 6' 49" W |
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The Basics:
i3 Detroit is a member-run non-profit do-it-yourself collective based in Ferndale, Michigan. We have all the electronics and CNC capabilities typical of most hackerspaces, plus a large shop space for noisier, dustier work. Our main blog is www.i3detroit.com, and updates are also frequently posted to Twitter as @i3detroit.
History:
In April 2009, our founder started a website and sent a bunch of emails to people in the community. Also, he listed i3Detroit on this wiki. Meeting weekly in a coffee shop, a small cadre of motivated individuals came together to identify our common goals and take steps to meet them.
On September 4th, 2009, papers were signed giving i3Detroit a lease on 1500 square feet in downtown Royal Oak. We spent the Labor Day holiday, and the following month, renovating the space and building it out. From paint and lightbulbs to drywall and stairs, there was a lot to build and fix.
Our Grand Opening party took place on October 3rd, 2009 and officially opened the space. Jim Ellison, the mayor of Royal Oak, came out to perform our ribbon-cutting. (He used an oxyacetylene cutting torch to burn through a piece of ribbon cable stretched across our garage doorway. Why be boring?)
On March 31st, 2010, i3Detroit migrated to its new home in Ferndale, MI. More than 6,000 square feet larger, the new location has over 1,000 square feet of office space and roughly 7,000 square feet of warehouse floor. Amid the sound of saws and compressors, the new space and i3Detroit's first birthday were both celebrated with a barbeque on April 25th, 2010.
Present Day:
Currently, i3 Detroit hovers around 100 dues-paying members and a handful of regular guests, with several people in the space on any given night of the week. Recurring events and occasional classes dot the calendar, and we usually make a strong showing at local DIY-oriented events. This is nowhere more true than Maker Faire Detroit, where so many projects come from i3 that we get our own large tent.
Tools:
Here's a sampling of what's in the space:
Woodworking – Band saw, table saw, router table, scroll saw, drill press, planer, miter saw, lathe, circular saws, impact drivers, cordless drills, various hand tools, pneumatic nail guns, oscillating multi-tool, hardware area including copious screws and other fasteners
Metal working – Table-top lathe, full-size (14x40") lathe, table-top mill, full-size Bridgeport mill, anvil, CNC mill, CNC lathe, planishing hammer, English wheel, sheet metal roll/brake/shear machine, drill presses, band saw, sand-blasting cabinets, 300A AC/DC TIG welder, various smaller MIG/wire welders, oxyacetylene welding rig, angle grinders, extensive scrap metal stock
Electronics – 3 temperature-controlled soldering stations, 14 wattage-controlled soldering stations, hot-air SMT rework station, numerous soldering aids and pick/pry/tweeze tools, solderless breadboards, prototyping boards, several lab-style power supplies, analog oscilloscope, Open Logic Sniffer, Saleae Logic analyzer, Bus Pirate, AVR Dragon, AVRISP, PICkit2, numerous TTL-serial adapters (FTDI and similar), extensive stock of components (resistors including sub-ohm and multi-watt, capacitors from pF to 10F, prewound inductors and toroid cores, discrete BJT and FET transistors, hundreds of logic ICs and op-amps, hundreds of trimmers and panel-mount pots, thousands of LEDs)
Crafting - Cricut cutting machine, Silhouette cutting machine, Cricut Cuttlebug, Yudu silk screen machine, Singer serger, various small sewing machines, 34-inch vinyl cutter, 54-inch vinyl cutter, heat presses, glue guns, Perler beads, numerous paints and brushes, easels, button maker, various basic supplies and tools
Bike shop - Fix your bike! Professional-level Park Tool specialty tools, spare parts for chains and cables, lubricants, tubes, compressed air,
Portable Podcast Studio – 4 Quality microphones, 1 Mackie mixing board, Recording software, Compressors, Gates.
Fab Lab – 40-watt laser cutter, CNC plasma table, Makerbot 3d printer, Protomat C30/S circuit-board mill
[edit] Software
- Folks at i3 have worked on Seltzer CRM a php-based simple internal membership info management tool.
