Access Policies

To ensure availability of tools/shop space and reasonable occupancy levels, all shop/machine time must be scheduled. These reservations are made through our online scheduling system - Skedda. We have a private venue in Skedda meaning only invited users can register for our venue and see event information. Members are sent a registration link for Skedda once they have completed the onboarding process (see How to Join on our main website for more info).

Access Policies

General Info

• Facility hours are 5 AM - 2 AM, 7 days a week (i.e. 21/7/365).
• Areas or specific machines in the shop are listed in Skedda as "spaces".
• Each member may book up to a certain number of hours per week across all workspaces (count resets on Monday).
• You must provide a mobile phone number to complete your booking.  This will not be visible to other members, except the Board of Directors and designated Skedda admins.  This allows us a direct means to contact you in the moment should we need to speak with you during your reservation.
  • Note:  Only your name and Booking Title is visible to other members in Skedda, not the description or your personal contact information.
• All shop area/machine use at the space must be scheduled in Skedda - our online scheduling system.
  • If you have NOT made a reservation via Skedda, you are NOT allowed to use machines or shop areas.
• There are multiple slots available for booking the woodshop.  There is no difference between them, it simply allows for multiple members to work in the woodshop at the same time.  Members booked for the woodshop at the same time should work together to clean and coordinate use of shared machinery.
  • If you know you will be heavily using a specific tool in the woodshop during your reservation (e.g. router table), feel free to indicate that in the Booking Title field to let other members know.  Note that this does not guarantee sole use of that equipment during your reservation.
  • If another member booked concurrently in the woodshop has provided contact information or you wish to reach out to them through Discourse, you may contacting them to game plan in advance how you will work together in the shop.

Equipment-specific time limits

There are a few machines in the space with high demand which have limits on the length of bookings. Additionally, we only allow one reservation at a time for these machines. One reservation at a time means that no second reservation can be made for ANY future time until the first reservation is over or within 30 minutes of being over.

• Lasers - max 3 hours
• Wood CNC - max 4.5 hours

The Prusa XL also has booking limits due to demand. Each member is only allowed 24 hours of booking time on this machine per week. If you have a single object that will take more than 24 hours to print, book 24 hours and send an email to 3dprinters@asmbly.org with information about the additional time needed. Stewards will try to book some additional time for you, if it’s available. We will try to respond to these requests as quickly as possible with the aim of responding within a few hours, but please allow up to 24 hours for a response.

Note: If your print is several small items that collectively take over 24 hours, you will be asked to reduce the number of objects you are printing to fit within the time limits.

Small Businesses

While many makerspaces do not allow businesses at all, Asmbly prides itself in serving as a small business incubator with an aim to accommodate small businesses.  However, we must also ensure in doing so that it is not to the detriment of our other members. For this reason, we have additional booking restrictions for members who use the space for a common business.

• A single business may only book a max of 2 sessions on a machine per day, regardless of the number of Asmbly members the business has.
• Asmbly may impose further booking restrictions as necessary should a business's usage further impede accessibility to the broader community.