Makerspaces expanding influence in Tahoe-Truckee
Lake Tahoe School in Incline Village opened a makerspace last year. Photo/Provided
By Laura Read, Moonshine Ink
With the imminent arrival of the Truckee Roundhouse membership-based workshop, set to open at the Truckee Tahoe Airport Dec. 1, the region joins ranks with places around the world that offer work spaces where anyone can construct the projects of their imaginations.
But Truckee Roundhouse isn’t the only local enterprise that’s sharing resources and costs to bring brains and brawn together under one roof.
Like in similar communities, Tahoe area locals have been building things together for years: A house construction site is a makerspace where people of different skills make objects on a single site in order to build a shelter; Riverside Studios, in its original form on Riverside Drive, was a makerspace where in a collection of low-rent buildings several artists created work for sale; North Tahoe Arts in Tahoe City has held artisan classes for both hobby and sale in a large room above its downstairs galleries.