Poor Man’s Filament Dryer Laser Workshop 2025

January 6 @ 10:00 am 12:00 pm CST

$15
2569 Cook Road
Crossville, TN 38571 United States
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931-456-4910

CBI Maker Space – What’s Up?

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The Maker Space instructors and volunteers have been working hard to keep up with the arrival of equipment that needs to be assembled and developing projects so that as you take the Safety and Basic Use class for specific equipment, you actually make something to take home with you in the process of your training. Continue reading

Why Build a Tinker Space?

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 Grassroots Manufacturing Renaissance Spurs Entrepreneurship

Why is Roane State Community College building a Tinker Space inside the Cumberland Business Incubator?  This article from The Kauffman Foundation by Jonathan Ortmans provides a few answers.  Hint:  A Tinker Space, like the one being developed inside the CBI, is a smaller version of a Makerspace. Continue reading

CBI Wins Prize!

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Cumberland Business Incubator receives $50,000 prize to create Tinker Space

The Cumberland Business Incubator, located on Roane State Community College’s Cumberland County campus, has received a $50,000 prize to create a space where entrepreneurs can turn their ideas into working prototypes.

The incubator was one of 50 organizations nationwide to receive a prize through the U.S. Small Business Administration’s Growth Accelerator Fund competition. Continue reading