Slideshow: A TechShop Snapshot

Much inventive thinking takes place during a typical day at this community workshop

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Photo: Timothy Archibald
Photo: Timothy Archibald

Photo: Timothy Archibald

TRACKING EXPENSES: Aaron Haldiman, custom-applications engineer for Telemetry Solutions of Concord, Calif., shows off components for GPS collars used to track wildlife. He says his company had been getting fabrication work done at ”big machine shops that take forever and charge a ton,” which is why he prefers to make parts like this himself at TechShop.

For more on TechShop, see The Innovators Club

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