Our Mission:
Manchester Makerspace is a collaborative organization of members who maintain a shared workspace, tooling, and skills in the Manchester, New Hampshire community. As a member maintained and operated organization, Manchester Makerspace provides access to shared resources, training, and mentorship for the benefit of Manchester’s local entrepreneurs, makers, students and artists of all ages.
Code of Conduct
We’re voicing our strong, unequivocal support of appropriate behavior by all members, guests of members, and participants at the Manchester Makerspace (MM) and associated events. This applies to activities inside the MM, as well as any off-site community events where members of the MM are representing our organization. We invite you to help us make the MM a place that is welcoming and respectful to all participants, regardless of race, gender, age, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, national origin, ethnicity, or religion. We want everyone to focus on the great networking and community richness that happens when we get together in person, and we will not tolerate harassment of participants in any form.
Examples of harassment include offensive comments, verbal threats or demands, sexualized images in public spaces, intimidation, unwelcome criticism, stalking, harassing photography or recording, sustained disruption of sessions or events, and unwelcome physical contact or sexual attention. If you would hesitate to show your creation(s) to a child, your family, or a stranger on the street, we expect you to exercise discretion by keeping it out of sight whenever it’s not actively being worked on.
Please Abide…
- Be most excellent to each other.
- Safety is important. If you are unsure of how to safely do something, don’t do it.
- When you break something, own up to it. If you have any doubt about fixing it, ask for help.
- Don’t make someone feel bad for breaking things, help them understand what went wrong.
- Clean, Maintain, Organize, Improve. Always leave the space better than you found it.
- There is no smoking indoors, and please be mindful of proximity to entrances.
- Members may bring guests to the Makerspace, for a limited duration, under the hosting member’s direct supervision. Guests are not permitted to use any Makerspace equipment requiring a resource manager checkout.
- Do not bring pets or animals to the Makerspace for the safety of them and others. Service animals (RSA 167-D) are permitted, though their safety is still a concern around our equipment and materials. Be most excellent to our animal friends.
- Do not do anything illegal at the Manchester Makerspace. Any illegal activity at the MM is grounds for your membership to be terminated.
Makerspace bylaws
The Manchester Makerspace official bylaws can be viewed on Google Drive here.
Our Board of Directors
Thad Hughes
President, General Area Resource Member
Thad loves anything mechanical or mechatronic. He grew up on a farm in Illinois and has always been tinkering since then. He’s designed, built, and analyzed robots, racecars, power tools, web applications, and lots inbetween. If you need CAD, FEA, fabrication, or general design advice, he can be a handy guy.
Michael Cullerot
Vice President, Automotive Resource Manager
Mike is passionate about everything outdoors. He spent 30 years working in the outdoor industry.
Hiking, rock climbing, mountaineering, sailing and whitewater kayaking. Loves Adventure Motorcycles.
One of our most energetic, creative, and helpful members!
He is always happy to help out with a project.
Will Lynch
Treasurer, Rapid Prototyping Resource Manager
Will is an avid maker and outdoorsman. From ecology to robotics, he loves understanding how systems function and interact. He lives by the mantra “I could make that” and loves helping others realize their talent for making.
Todd Hanneman
Secretary
Todd has a wide breath of knowledge with everything at the space. Todd enjoys tinkering with just about anything from computers and electronics to wood, and has even been seen in the metal shop welding his snow blower or tractor. You will most likely meet him at some point in your time here and usually he will have a coffee or soda close by…. we think the caffeine is the only thing that keeps him going.
N. Chris Perry
Co-Founder, Board Member, Metalworking Resource Manager
Christopher likes to say he’s an engineer every minute of the day & night. When he isn’t sailing, cooking or drinking he is creating something. During his career he’s worked as an electro-mechanical engineer, machinist, sheet metal mechanic, fabricator, and model maker. These career choices have all been part of his master plan to make his own creations by any means necessary.
Kevin Kadow
Board Member
Kevin has been helping behind the scenes for a longtime in the shadows and has finally stepped up into the light as an official board member, thank you Kevin for all the help!
Preston Moulton
Board Member, Facilities Manager
Preston likes to learn and get involved. He has recently been helping both the robotics teams that work here at the Manchester Makerspace.
Our Resource Managers
David Collins
Electronics Shop Resource Manager
Dave has enjoyed being inventive and solving problems through electronic and electro-mechanical design. With a 30 year career designing and building instruments for chemistry, space physics rocket projects and earth sciences ice projects. The most rewarding part of his career has been mentoring students on projects with a focus on designing and building innovative electronic devices.
Donna Schmidt
Textile shop Resource Manager
Donna loves everything fabric especially being behind the loom.
Board Meeting Minutes
Our board meeting minutes are open to public view. The most recent minutes are provisional. They are expected to be approved during the next meeting. Meeting minutes in the future are agendas that we’ll follow for the next board meeting.