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from the nurturing-inventive-but-equipment-poor-folks dept.

Hackaday reports [hackaday.com]

[June 23] marks the opening of the Supplyframe Design Lab [supplyframe.com][1] in Pasadena, California. The Design Lab bills itself as the "leading edge creative center built to foster new ideas in technology and design". Supplyframe had the vision to acquire Hackaday a few years ago, launched the Hackaday.io Community site which now has more than 150,000 members, and established The Hackaday Prize to spark engineering projects that benefit humanity.

[...]Name your material, and there are tools to work with it. [...] Need design software and beefy boxes to run it on? They have that too. [...] It's a wonderland for making the imaginable real. If there ever was a time to quit your job and spend three months launching that dream product, this is it. The Design Lab has a residency program.

[...]Residencies will start on July 1st. Each runs for three months in which residents have unfettered access to the space and its tools, as well as financial support of $2000 per month. Each resident will self-identify into the product-track (you're on your way to market with new hardware) or the art-track (you have a calling for an ambitious project and need to make it a reality). [...] The Design Lab is still accepting applications for new residencies this summer and beyond.

In the comments, the author, Mike Szczys, says

The only commitment expected from the residents is that they will work at the Design Lab during the residency and be open to showing off what they're up to.

and

I don't believe residents give up ownership or equity. The point of the residency program is to break down the barriers for creating hardware and to show some of what it takes to see a product or art installation through to completion.

[1] I don't think I'll be advising anyone to take lessons in HTML [w3.org] from their web guy.

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