We just found out that 100kGarages was voted the “Best Downloadable Design Concept” in the Treehugger Best of Green 2010 Awards. The tagline for Best of Green is “Awarding Excellence in Sustainability“, and we thank the folks at Treehugger for recognizing the Green benefits of 100kGarages and localized manufacturing.
Read more →There’s a lot of interest in how we’re planning on expanding the types of digital tools in 100kGarages and we’ve posted our thoughts and plans at http://www.100kgarages.com/Whats_next.html , but we just wanted to make sure that everyone had a chance to look it over so we’ve re-posted it below: Since we first started thinking...
Read more →The innovative EasyCut, an end-to-end system that will manage the complete transaction for pre-paid fabrication jobs, is getting ready for beta testing and we’re looking for 5 beta-testing Fabbers to help out. Here’s what we’re looking for: Flexibility and an openness to new ideas. EasyCut is a completely new way of CNC cutting and...
Read more →We’ve been contacted by a museum that’s working an exhibit on Digital Fabrication for this spring, and wants to present 100kGarages and the ideas of distributed and local manufacturing in an interesting way. We’ve got some possibilities…having parts cut in lots of separate shops that are shipped and assembled at the museum, or having...
Read more →When we first started thinking about 100kGarages, we figured that the way to sustainably generate business for Fabbers was to start by signing up Fabbers to fill in the map, rather than trying to interest Makers when there wasn’t anyone to actually do the cutting….that Makers looking at an empty map was the quickest...
Read more →Springwise , a popular site that covers entrepreneurship, just posted their “Top 10 business ideas for 2010” list and 100kGarages was #8 on their list: Connecting Creative Consumers with Local Fabricators. We knew it was a great idea all along!
Read more →Linda Stone just posted about National Lab Day on the OReilly Radar. Check out her posting Working Together to Create a National Learning Community and see if you don’t agree that a “100k Make Day” might be a great way to both show people what digital fabrication shops can do, and to help out...
Read more →Well, we actually finished the MakerBot we’re building to learn a little more about additive 3d printing about a month ago and did a couple of successful builds. Unfortunately we forgot the fundamental rule of digital tools and didn’t turn Linux updates off, causing a catastropic plunge of the Z axis and Plastruder when...
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The latest 100kGarages newsletter just came out yesterday..here it is in all it’s goodness. If you don’t already get it in yiour inbox you can sign up at newsletter.100kgarages.com: Well…when we say the 100kGarages newsletter comes out “semi-occasionally” we really mean it! It’s not from lack of action though, and those of you that have...
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