Chris Lueras (left), a student at Amy Biehl High School, had a passion for becoming a mechanical engineer. For his senior capstone project, he was informed by his academic advisor about a prior student who had done their project through FUSE Makerspace. This led Chris to reach out to FUSE, where
Blanca joined FUSE’s instructor team last year, teaching vinyl, laser, and Adobe Illustrator workshops. Prior to that, she was a FUSE member for two years. She started LatinxSwag, a small arts-based business printing, cutting, and selling stickers from her home. When she started having trouble keeping up with increasing demand, she
My name is Fidel González, I am a local farmer and musician, I want to tell you that last year I started as a member of this great place called FUSE Makerspace. The reason I came here is because I have always wanted to produce leather bags and learn how to
When I spoke with Jinja Allen, one of our members, she showed me a picture of a couple holding a large ornate monogrammed letter “B”. She had made the “B” at FUSE and the couple had just bought a new house. Their realtor had the monogram made for them and several
Tanda Headrick heard about FUSE before almost anyone else. She was consulted during the inception of the Makerspace on what collection of equipment would make a successful makerspace. Tanda was an obvious choice for this as she had been running Vanguard Technology Corporation here in Albuquerque since 1992. Vanguard has done
Arnold Risvik heard about FUSE from a friend who worked at CNM before we moved into our current space. He joined once the HAAS (CNC Mill) was up and running to help supplement his machining business, Snap Precision. Snap precision currently specialized in making high-security locks but fabricates a wide variety
About five years ago, Josie Gates relocated to Albuquerque with her two sons, then still in school, from Tom’s River, New Jersey, because of her job as a web designer. She is the proprietor of Blue Flower Full Moon (etsy.com/shop/BlueFlowerFullMoon), an Etsy shop that specializes in spiritual and metaphysical items. To
After COVID-19 became a public health concern FUSE Makerspace closed to the public along with the rest of CNM, soon after FUSE’s resources became focused on helping the efforts to fight COVID-19. Alice was one of the first members to contact us. She had heard an NPR story about an open-source
Apr 15, 2020 If you build it, they will use it. That’s what CNM’s FUSE Makerspace quickly found out as the COVID-19 pandemic started. While the space is currently unable to offer its regular in-person classes, FUSE has transitioned all of its equipment and resources over to building, cleaning, and distributing
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