• distributed manufacturing

    100kGaragers featured in the AtFAB Open Source Living Room

    by  • May 29, 2014 • collaboration, community shops, Design, distributed manufacturing, Featured 100k Users, furniture, Maker Movement • 1 Comment

    Designers and architects Anne Filson and Gary Rohrbacher of AtFAB created an innovative and fun destination at this year’s “flagship” Maker Faire in San Mateo. As Anne explained, “We designed the AtFAB Open Source Living Room to offer Maker Faire visitors a place to take a break, and to learn about CNC fabrication, distributed...

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    MAKEzine reviews 2013’s major developments for Making Professionals

    by  • January 2, 2014 • community shops, distributed manufacturing, Handibot Power Tool, Maker Movement, maker spaces, Resources, The Digital Fab Revolution, The New Industrial Revolution • 0 Comments

    Maker Pro Newsletter’s DC Denison pulls together a round-up of 2013’s developments on the Maker Pro frontier — where making meets business.  Turns out it was a very busy, productive year indeed. Put it on your to-do list to learn more about these start-ups and initiatives — read the round-up here. One that stands...

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    If you build it, they will come…and be amazed: The 2-day Wikihouse build at World Maker Faire NYC

    by  • November 4, 2013 • collaboration, distributed manufacturing, Maker Movement, shopbot, The Digital Fab Revolution, The New Industrial Revolution

    This Fall 2013, a team comprised of software engineers and designers from Colorado and Massachusetts, architects from the UK, and some ShopBotting digital fabbers from Virginia got together and built a house.  In two days. Thousands of Maker Faire-ians walked around inside it and checked it out, and learned about the easy-to-use software employed...

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    How affordable CNC can re-make industry: thoughts on technology and business structure

    by  • October 27, 2013 • collaboration, distributed manufacturing, Maker Movement, shopbot, The New Industrial Revolution • 5 Comments

    How does technology influence the size and shape of business?  What’s the most effective kind of organization to house low-cost CNC tools?  What are the opportunities ahead? The rapid decline in the cost of capital equipment such as CNC tools, along with the capacity to share or sell designs around the world, suggest that...

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    Distributed Digital Fabrication of Handibot Smart Tools Using the 100kGarage Network

    by  • July 9, 2013 • collaboration, community shops, distributed manufacturing, Handibot Power Tool, Maker Movement, maker spaces, The Digital Fab Revolution, The New Industrial Revolution • 4 Comments

    We recently launched our Kickstarter campaign (www.Handibot.com/fund) for the development of ShopBot’s new Handibot Smart Tool. We seem to be off to a good start in the campaign, but we have a number of goals for the campaign beyond just selling Handibots. The two most important to us are:  1) getting the understanding and...

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    The Opportunity and the Challenge … for Distributed Manufacturing

    by  • June 22, 2013 • collaboration, distributed manufacturing, The Digital Fab Revolution • 0 Comments

    Right now, our friends Anne Filson and Gary Rohrbacher (AtFAB), are undertaking a Kickstarter campaign (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/filson-rohrbacher/furniture-fabbed-locally) that will grow and promote small-shop digital fabrication. Anne and Gary are longtime users and promoters of 100kGarages. More importantly, they are evangelists for distributed manufacturing – for using power of digital fabrication to get production back into...

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    “How to Make a Makerspace” attracts crowd of entrepreneurs to Artisan’s Asylum

    by  • February 20, 2013 • collaboration, community shops, distributed manufacturing, Maker Movement

    The weekend of February 1 and 2, ShopBot’s Martha Barbour and Bill Young attended the How to Make a Makerspace event held at Artisan’s Asylum, a community Makerspace in Somerville, Massachusetts. ShopBot Tools was a sponsor and featured equipment vendor at the event, hosted by Artisan’s Asylum and MAKE Magazine. The goal of this...

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    Fabbing Plexiglas Desktop Tool Enclosures: from McKenzie Digital Fab

    by  • February 9, 2013 • community shops, distributed manufacturing, Featured 100k Users, shopbot • 1 Comment

    While working at ShopBot alongside their development team in helping to create the Desktop tool, early on we started seeing the need for safety enclosures around the head of the tool. The early versions of this were hoping to be a surrounding that would offer protection from flying debris, a sound barrier, and a...

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    Coming Feb. 11-12: @Manufacturing Works, an IEI Forum for North Carolina

    by  • February 1, 2013 • distributed manufacturing, The Digital Fab Revolution

    Coming up Feb. 11 and 12 here in North Carolina, the Institute for Emerging Issues will be hosting their 2013 Forum called @Manufacturing Works. Technology thought leaders like Chris Anderson (formerly of Wired Magazine), ShopBot’s Ted Hall and many other business and community leaders will be in attendance.  Of course we’ll be spreading the...

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    Making My Future: The Journey of a 100kGarages Fabber

    by  • January 30, 2013 • community shops, distributed manufacturing, Featured 100k Users, furniture, Maker Movement, shopbot, The Digital Fab Revolution • 0 Comments

    “I’ve always been fascinated with how things worked. I guess I’ve been a Maker since I was about ten years old.” Hi, I’m Brian McKenzie, of McKenzie Digital Fab —  a business that I just recently “gave birth to.”  I also recently joined 100kGarages.com, and thought it would be fun to keep a journal...

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