Originally founded as a club to give MIT students free and open access to computers, MITERS now features a mill, lathe, band saws, welders, and other hands-on tools, in addition to a host of oscilliscopes, high-end soldering irons, and other EE prototyping tools. It’s a member-run creative haven and build-anything-you-want, if-you-break-it,-fix-it space.
We’re MIT’s only student-run shop and we’re funded entirely through a portion of proceeds from Swapfest, the MIT Electronics Flea Market.
Build parties are Fridays at 7 pm (running past midnight), feel free to pop in and say hi!
Elsewhere on the internet:
- Our Flickr pool: http://www.flickr.com/groups/miters/pool/
- Instructables: http://www.instructables.com/community/Intro-to-MITERS/
- Hackerspaces listing: http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/MITERS
- Panorama of pre-2011 setup: http://www.loneoceans.com/labs/panorama/ (near bottom)
A documentary or two:
- Ilya Smelansky, from NYU: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvLvdmiMQkU
- Danish reporter Henrik Fohns, from Harddisken Color: http://blip.tv/play/AYGym00C