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tools of innovation, amazing things could happen. >> as a life-long do it yourselfer jim knows the power of having an idea and the tools to bring it to life. >> this is the kayak that folds up into a suitcase size box. >> newton is passionate about sharing that power with everyone who wants to put creative ability to work. >> i don't think you have to teach innovation. i just think you have to coax people out of their fear of trying to innovate. >> you know, for me, it was really a life saver and i kind of get choked up talking about it because it meant a whole lot to me. it still matters a whole lot. >> one of the reasons he founded tech shop. an open space innovation workshop where for $100 a month, members can use cutting edge machinery and tools to design prototypes and even launch their own businesses. the other reason because it's just plain fun. >> you'll see them say, wow, i

really can do this. this is stunning. they're stunned. >> it's an idea born of the simple conviction that if you can dream it, you can build it. and some of those dreams are changing lives. >> i think when you give everyday people access to the tools of innovation, amazing things can happen. everybody has an idea in their head of something they want to make. you ask anybody on the street. at first maybe they will say, i don't know, i don't think so. but if you dig a little deeper, pretty soon they'll say, well, maybe it's something if your car, something for your house or an improvement. once you dig that out of them, they'll open up and tell you all about this thing that they want to make. so what happens if you give these people access to tools

that they need to actually realize this? there's some really good ideas out there in people's heads that society needs. >> but tech shop brings to members that come in here is the ability to take the idea out of their head and get it into real form. it's very hard to do that. for a lot of different reasons. from people being afraid to try to not having the right tools or equipment to not knowing how to do this stuff. all the factors that present you from executing your idea. the goal of tech shop is to guide people through on a path to success so they can actually realize that idea. >> this is the kayak. fully functional kayak that folds up into a suitcase size box for transporting storage. i came it think of this a few years ago when i moved into a

ma small apartment and had to put my kayak in storage. started to playing with ways to fold up a boat. i think a lot of great things about tech shop. just the access to the tools and facilities, obviously, completely amazing. just you can make pretty much anything you can imagine. >> when you started a tech shop, did you have an idea of the type of equipment? >> yeah, yeah. i have a list of like 200 things i wanted to make. so, i just looked at what tools do i need to be able to make all those things? we have a huge range of equipment in tech shop. everything from milling machines to welding and sheet metal equipment our wood working and water jet cutter that can cut through six inches thick of anything on the planet. >> how long would it take to do something like that? >> that was probably a five-minute cut. >> all right. >> the other thing that's great about tech shop is that we have our dream consultants on staff all the time. come right over for free and help you out and make sure you're having success and you're

feeling confident about it. >> i lost my job a year ago and i was really kind of worried about the skills that i didn't have. you know, i felt like i was only capable of sitting in front of a computer and typing e-mails. i came to tech shop with this big skill. a community that i started. we've created an underwater robot. so, basically, you plug this thing into your computer and drop it into a pond or a lake or the ocean and control it and see what it sees. we launched a kick starter project a month ago and we raised $110,000 from almost 500 people all over the world. so, we are so busy building robots right now. the way we do our classes at tech shop. if you came over to my house and you wanted to learn how to do my welder. i'm not going to subject you to a six-month class. all i'm going to do is say,

look, watch me do this. okay. watch out for this. be careful of this, this could hurt you. here's how to control this part. now you try it. we teach the safety stuff, but we don't want to discourage you from using that equipment because it will take you so long to learn it. i don't think you have to teach innovation. i just think you have to coax people out of their fear of trying to innovate. everybody has creative abilities. but people just don't express them. i mean, i see people come in here that are afraid to try anything. we give them some classes and some encouragement and they have some success with their product and you see them change and light up and say, wow, i really can do this. this is stunning. they're stunned.

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we've gotten away from making so much that instiktive drive for people to create. i like to think tech shop kind of rekindles that in people and get them to being makers. the type of members that we attract vary so wildly from single moms to professional designers to artists. i mean, just all over the board. it's men, it's women, it's old people. it's very hard to say, here is our typical member because there real aren't any. >> i needed a milling machine. i was building these things by hand and using a shop in st. louis and when i came out here i needed a place to work. they had all the equipment and all the amazing people.

a guy making a lunar lander. >> one of our members wanted to make a blanket to keep babies warm. typically in the third world where if a baby is born prematurely it can't regulate its body temperature completely. if the parent or caregivers don't get it to an incubator in town, within a couple hours the baby will die. we needed a place where we could take our ideas from paper and make them a reality in a very quick way and we knew about tech shop and the facilities available. the magic of this product is a warm pack. this pouch here contains a special material which is engineered to melt at 37 degrees or human body temperature precisely and also has the ability to maintain that temperature for several hours after it's melted. once it's heated, you place it inside this baby wrap. then you zip up this pouch and here you place the new born. the heat will transfer this way

and once you close this up, it will actually create a small microenvironment of 30 degrees celsius just like an incubator. >> they think it will save 100,000 babies lives in the next five years. a lot of inventors think here is my idea, i have to keep it private and i don't want people to steal it because it's not patented yet. i suggest people come in to tech shop and share this idea because when you do that and you get all these other really smart, creative inventive people working on your project with you, they will contribute so much and upgrade your idea so much that it's really almost a shame to keep your idea private when you've got this huge resource available to you. >> it's energetic. you can kind of bounce ideas around with people. if you hit a road block, you can usually get help and work your way through it. it's a manufacturer of book bound cases for tablets, such as

the ipad and the kindle. when the ipad was first announced. i saw an immediate opportunity and been developing the prototype and continue to do the early production at tech shop using their equipment. what tech shop did for dodo case was really help us prove the demand for our product in a marketplace. we were able to do it quickly and get into the market at a very critical moment. we went from, you know, just hoping someone would buy one case to within a month we had hundreds of orders every day. it would have been nearly impossible for us to do what we did without tech shop. >> there's so many things that become, it could be little tiny things, it could be big world change in things. i mean, all the things that people do here just really, really light me up. the they really excite me. a lot of companies and organizations say they want to change the world, but tech shop

actually will and is changing the world because our members have ideas they know will change the world and they do. tech shop empowers people to come in here and build businesses and allow merchants to take credit cards that they never could before. hundreds of examples of things that people have made here that have this ripple effect into far, far outside of tech shop's reach. >> what really you can't see at tech shop is the spirit of the people there. and that's just super inspiring. you think you can't have an idea, go to tech shop and watch some guy, you know, build a folding kayak or create some sort of something you can't even contemplate. just great to be around people like that. it brings you up. omain name, website builder with five pages and basic email just $49.99!

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everything i do is about making stuff. i like to bake bread. i do a lot of sour dough bread. it is a real art because you have this living culture that you have to keep alive, you have

to feed it and nourish it. it's like having a pet. it really is except you put it in the oven and kill it occasionally. for me, making bread is just relaxing. i started tech shop, actually, for selfish reasons. i wanted access to the tools and equipment that would allow me to make all the ideas that i have in my head. i always have ideas of things i want to make. this is my electric cargo bike that i built for burning man last year. i wanted to have really nice transportation around, so, i built this in about four days. come around here. in here there are two car batteries. everybody would yell ice cream man when they saw me riding it. next time i take this out, i want to have a freezer in here with ice cream in it. when someone says ice cream man,

i can stop and offer them ice cream. you usually have something in your head and say, i want that. instead of trying to go out and buy it somewhere, you'll say, i will make it exactly the way i want it. i was raised here in the bay area, san francisco bay area. i've always been a tanker and hacker all my life. i always wanted to take things apart and see how things work. when i was about 6 my dad built a dune buggy from scratch. took the body off and cut the frame and welded all the pieces together and transformed this car. i was actually one of the really critical points in my life when i learned that you can do pretty amazing things just with your hands and some tools. you can make something as amazing as a car. >> he's funny. he probably thinks some of his jokes are funnier than i do. but he's funny.

if i go away and leave him with the kids. i went away for a weekend and he made a mud pit in the backyard and they loved it. you know, i don't know. i wanted to give him a little bit of that freedom because i thought it was awesome. >> we made a go-cart. we made a street go-kart. cut steel and welded all this frame together, put the wheels on, built a braking system and designed it from scratch. we did it like in one afternoon and, you know, by the end of the evening, the kids were all taking turns racing this car down the hill. >> i guess i always hoped that some of his building of the race cars and the mud pit and some of that is to maybe not always play it safe. maybe not always do stuff that is sanctioned. >> i hate when i have to fill out some application or form and

it says occupation. because i never, ever know what to put down. sometimes i put, you know, chairman or founder. if i put maker, then they'll never know what it means. i was on "myth busters" as the adviser for season three for that whole year. everybody would love to geon that show and build stuff and blow stuff up. so, my job there was basically to take the story that we were going to do and do small-scale preexperiments. take ping-pong balls and submerge them and see how much weight they would float. or put a hot dog in a tray of salt water and measure the current going across. that is the story from when we dropped appliances into the bathtub. like one of the best jobs in the world. >> when we first talked about tech shop. he wanted a shop and wanted his tools and i was happy to get stuff out of the house. he was getting e-mails from people right away from all over the country and around the world wanting a tech shop there.

he gets calls from washington. and it's like, he tells me this stuff and it's unbelievable. i just can't believe that, you know, this idea that we had started out not as something to change the world, it's just to give him his tools. it might change the world. >> one of the really exciting things we're doing right now is working with the v.a. to provide memberships to veterans that are coming back from the war. tow t. it's gonna be 30 minutes. oh, so that means that we won't be stuck up here, for hours, with nothing to do. oh i get it, you wanna pass the time, huh. (holds up phone) fruit ninja!!! emergency roadside assistance. just a click away with the geico mobile app.

innovation is pretty important to a country's life blood, i think. last time i checked, right? one thing we don't really think about is you look around and everything that we interact with has been designed by somebody. a lot of times it has a lot of innovative thinking behind it to make it a better product or a more affordable product or a more durable product or something that's in a new category where no one's ever

designed something like that before. all that innovation that happens doesn't just happen. it has to come from people. >> over the course of the past two and a half years, we've grown from two or three of us that started the business to 30 or so employees. any little bit that we can do to kind of keep the crafts people of the community doing what they love to do is really something that gets me excited every morning. >> what is unique about tech shop is it enables people to come in and do things themselves. you surprise yourself what you can do in so little time. >> it's just some spiring and you can do design work sitting in their lobby surrounded by this buzz of brilliance. it's fantastic. >> who is that? >> one of the real exciting things we're doing right now is working with the v.a. to provide memberships to veterans that are coming back from the war. it seems like a lot of times veterans come back from the war

and they end up with some menial job. i see that a lot. and i think they deserve more than that. i think they deserve to be able to follow their ideas and their cretivity and express themselves with a product or a business or whatever they want to do with it. >> the vision here is that in five years we have all of those veterans who use these memberships highly employed, earning the best they possibly can earn or managing and running their own businesses. >> i think that everybody is really born to be a maker. born to be creative. and i think something that happens is you grow up, you're a little kid. you're drawing pictures and they're scribbles. but that scribble looks like something to you. you're using your imagination to project that. when you get a little bit older, you draw a picture and maybe somebody says, what is that? you think, that is like the shattering statement. what is that?

tech shop plays a role in building people's confidence. that's what our whole business is based on. is making sure that our customer has a successful and fun experience. >> that was a really scary thing when you lose your job. they take your story from you. coming here was really important. i just can't underestimate not just this opportunity, this new venture, but just the skills, you know, just coming in and welding something that day. by the end of the day, i could say, you know, i made something versus just sending out a bunch of resumes and not hearing back. you know, for me, it was really a life saver and i kind of get choked up talking about it because it meant a whole lot to me. it still matters a whole lot. >> the most satisfying thing at tech shop is simply seeing people come in here to this new environment and seeing them light up the first time they come up with a project. i'll be out in the lobby and i like to ask people what they

make. somebody will come out and they'll have all their gear all bundled up and i'll say, hey, did you have fun today? what did you make? they'll say, oh, let me show you. and they'll unpack their whole kit just to get that little piece of metal that they machined out. you know, to show me. look what i made. it's -- that's my favorite part. the good thing is that from the very beginning, i did want to do it to empower people and it's growing so quickly now that in ten years, we could have a million members. innovative. it's pretty cool. i'm a very lucky guy. lucky with my family, lucky with my business. i constantly feel that i'm just very lucky to have the opportunity to build this company and reach and touch so many people's lives. it's not very many people get to do that.