John Maeda, President of Rhode Island School of Design, wrote a blog posting recently about Apple and commented that STEM…Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math…is no more important than what he calls IDEA…Intuition, Design, Emotion, and Art. “Right now, our nation sees left-brain thinking, focused on logic and reasoning, as critical to future economic development....
Read more →President Obama recently announced a new “Educate to Innovate” initiative to help build the US education system’s performance in STEM…Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math. And it even had robots! There are lots of proposals but one that seemed especially interesting was “National Lab Day” and the quote that’s right at the top of their...
Read more →Shapeways, one of our favorite 3d printing services, just tried an experiment by raising the price of one of their bestselling products from $25 to $45. That’s not so strange in the business world, but the unusual thing about it was that they were completely upfront about their reasons and posted it in their...
Read more →We’ve been so busy at 100kGarages that we let an important milestone slip by…the 100th Fabber! Now we wouldn’t feel so bad about missing it if we had missed it by a little bit and realized when there were maybe 101 or 102 Fabbers, but we just lost count and now there are 115!...
Read more →For those of you familiar with ShopBot’s Project Wizard project, our long-term vision for it was always that it would be a place that ANYONE could find neat projects to make and find Fabbers to cut them (read about it in the PW blog). As 100kGarages has evolved we realized that it had the...
Read more →Although we started 100kGarages with ShopBot CNC routers, we’ve always intended to expand to all kinds of digital fabrication tools. To help research some of the other kinds of digital tools (and because they just look like a bunch of fun to play with!), we’ve bought a “laserless” MakerBot kit…a kit without the laser-cut...
Read more →I’ve been a big fan of Cameron Sinclair, one of the founders of Architecture for Humanity, since I first heard his TED talk. The quote above is one of his and really does a good job of summarizing some of the motivation behind 100kGarages. Now we don’t claim or expect that everything that’s made...
Read more →PhysicalDesignCo, the innovative design group of MIT Architects that creates digitally fabricated structures like the New Orleans house in the MoMA “Home Delivery” show, recently announced that they will be using 100kGarages Fabbers to manufacture their custom designs for easy-to-assemble interlocking structures. Pioneers in the field of user-generated architecture and digital fabrication, PhysicalDesignCo will...
Read more →We knew we had Fabbers in 6 countries so far, but the latest numbers from Google Analytics shows that we’ve had visitors from 113 115 118 countries!
Read more →Here’s a quick sampling of postings about 100kgarages from last week…looks like we’re not the only ones that think we’re on to something powerful: http://www.treehugger.com http://www.core77.com/blog http://blog.p2pfoundation.net http://www.geekzone.co.nz http://mass-customization.blogs.com http://www.fabbaloo.com http://www.best-practice-business.de/blog (English translation here) http://www.springwise.com http://futurismic.com http://coinnovative.com/distributed-design-and-manufacturing-is-here/ http://blog.ponoko.com http://noodleplay.com http://bx.businessweek.com/urban-planning
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