Artz Lab

So I went to KW Artz Lab openspace last night for the first time. It is a hacker space that opened up about a year ago. I'd been meaning to go for a while now, but it finally happened. They are AMAZING!!!! I LOVE THEM!!!
What it is is a 'hacker space'? I can't really put into words myself (beyond gushing adjectives) so I will let wikipedia talk for me:

A hackerspace or hackspace (also referred to as a hacklab, makerspace or creative space) is a location where people with common interests, usually in computers, technology, or digital or electronice art can meet, socialise and collaborate. A hackerspace can be viewed as an open community lab incorporating elements of machine shops, workshops and/or studios where hackers can come together to share resources and knowledge to build and make things.

It's pretty much a bunch of really cool people getting together with big machines to MAKE STUFF. People donate all kinds of things, so that users have access to fancy equipment that would be too large or too costly to have at home.
My reason for going, apart from sheer curiosity, was to talk to them about donating a knitting machine. Despite the fact that no one really knew how to knit, everyone's reaction was 'Awesome!'. The lady who runs Queen of Hearts costume shop on King in uptown was there, and she seemed especially interested in the knitting machine. But a bunch of guys started talking about 'knit bombing' in Waterloo and how they could use this to do some mad knitbombing in Kitchener. So exciting!!!!! I told them they'd make me EXTREMELY happy if they used the machine to make yarnbombs.
Now I have to learn how to use said knitting machine so that I can demonstrate next week. Though of course I'm quite sure that they would be more than capable of figuring it out themselves.