Shout-outs
A tool bus is mostly people. These are the ones who made it real — plus the initial donors whose tools are already in the kits.
Kate Pulham
Founding supporter
Whose backing turned the tool bus from an idea into a thing with wheels.
Joe
Alderman, Lewiston
Provides the bus a home on his property — the first stop on every route.
Alex
Founder
Started it. “This is a bus, the shop comes later” is the founding doctrine.
Jess Sullivan
Webmaster & mail admin
Runs this site; standing up the keyholders mail infrastructure.
About the shop chops behind the site
Jess has spent a decade inside community shops: Fabrication Laboratory Manager for the Landscape Architecture makerspace at Cornell CALS; Membership Chair and 3D Printing Captain at Ithaca Generator, teaching a traveling Fusion 360 class series across New York; and First Fellow at Plymouth State’s D&M Makerspace, where she helped coordinate COVID-19 PPE manufacture with New England makerspaces including Artisan’s Asylum. She writes at transscendsurvival.org (mirrored at jesssullivan.github.io).
Friends of the bus
The Portland makerspace community
Our nearest maker neighbors down the turnpike.
Ithaca Generator
The 501(c)(3) makerspace where Jess served as Membership Chair and 3D Printing Captain.
Artisan’s Asylum
Whose “How to Make a Makerspace” tradition anchors our bibliography.