• Making My Future: The Journey of a 100kGarages Fabber

    by  • January 30, 2013 • 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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    MAKE’s Hardware Innovation Conference and the Maker Movement

    by  • January 29, 2013

    “ as significant as the shift from agriculture to the early industrial era.” Jeremy Rikin, Wharton economist. Bloomberg Business Week, 2/16/12  “Artificial intelligence, robotics, and digital manufacturing . . . these technologies will make manufacturing more creative, less expensive, more local and more personal.” Washington Post, 1/10/12  Last Spring, Bill Young...

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    Maker space NextFab Studio re-opens in Philadelphia

    by  • January 19, 2013

    ShopBot’s Ted Hall reports, “This past Thursday Jan. 17 I participated in the Re-Opening of NextFab Studio … an amazing local maker-space in Philadelphia. It’s a large workshop with all the equipment you can imagine, great individual work spaces, an operating Cafe, and some amazing digital fab tools, including a large 5-Axis water-jet cutter....

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    ShopBot Announces “Digital Fab Tools for Schools” Collaboration with Autodesk

    by  • January 9, 2013

    $2500 Vouchers For Teachers toward Purchase of Powerful Desktop CNC Tool and Autodesk 123D Design Software Durham, NC — January 9, 2013   ShopBot Tools, a leader in digital design and fabrication tools, has launched “Digital Fab Tools for Schools,” a special promotion supporting the wider availability of digital fabrication technology and curricula in high...

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    Your Quick Guide to 100kGarages Resources

    by  • December 9, 2012 • 0 Comments

    The Fabbers Map is a way to find Fabbers and Designers nearby, or those anywhere who have the expertise or equipment you need. We’re continually working on the search system to make it easier for you to find the right “Garage.”  To help understand a Garage’s capabilities, we’ve recently improved the Fabbers and Designers...

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    They met via 100kGarages. Now they’re in business.

    by  • December 4, 2012 • 0 Comments

    Lee’s a fabber in Sugar Grove, Illinois. Jens is a designer in Oslo. Together, they’re doing distributed manufacturing. Lee Bernard is a designer and fabber who’s worked for a number of years with natural stone, wood and metals. Lee’s digital fabrication tool is a CNC router with 5′ x 11′ bed that he designed...

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    Anne and Gary, 100kGarages Spotlight Designers, Featured in Recent “Economist” and “Network for Sustainable Business”

    by  • November 19, 2012 • 0 Comments

    Anne Filson and Gary Rohrbacher, the principles of the Design Firm AtFab and the creators of the innovative furnishings for digital fabrication that we have featured on the 100kGarages.com home page, are being noticed. Their appreciation of digital design and fabrication as well as distributed manufacturing is increasingly regarded as a model of future...

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