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The Edgerton Student Shop is a machine shop that offers intensive training classes focused on metalworking. Students can, for example, learn to use a milling machine to shape surfaces.
The Hobby Shop has been serving the MIT community for nearly 80 years. A fully equipped wood and metal shop, it is a great place to learn to handcraft wooden furniture—perhaps using a set of chisels.
MITERS is a student-member-run project space and machine shop focused on electronics and metal-working capabilities. Equipment includes an oscilloscope, which analyzes the waveform of electronic signals.
The Deep is a 1,239-square-foot makerspace where anyone in the MIT community can use tools ranging from simple drills and saws to a computer numerical control (CNC) lathe or waterjet cutter. Students are even welcome to try tungsten inert gas (TIG) welding.
The BioMakerspace supports project teams working on long-term research in biology, optics, mechanics, mathematics, electronics, and chemistry. Makers using its extensive laboratory and fabrication facilities can, for example, culture photosensitive bacteria.
Martin Trust Center ProtoWorks is focused on giving budding entrepreneurs a place to create prototypes. It’s one of several makerspaces where students can use 3-D printing capabilities.