I did a search here for anyone discussing this and didn't pop up anything so here it is:
Workshops that bring community together, knowledge and tool center where you can go to
build whatever you happen to think up for a monthly gym type membership. I have heard of
it 2 times on tsp, the first time I couldn't find one in my area. The second time I googled better and
found a list of 3 just in az. 1 in Tucson, 1 in Chandler and another in Mesa.
I visited the one in Tucson and talked for a half an hour about metal casting and 3d printing with one of the group heads.
This is pretty exciting to me, kid in a candy store type of thing. Any how many here probably already know, but here are links
for those who don't.
tsp link:
http://www.thesurvivalpodcast.com/navarro-on-hackerspaces
the central hub site:
http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/
the world list off of above site:
http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/List_of_Hacker_Spaces