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
Read more →Ever since we’ve went “live” a couple of weeks ago, the interest in 100kGarages has been fantastic. The map is filling in and we now have Fabbers in 6 countries. If you’re a ShopBot owner and haven’t signed up yet, sign up quickly and maybe you can say that you were #100
Read more →Like all of us at 100kGarages, Duncan Rickelton of www.IdeasExist.com is a big FabLab fan. But Duncan has gone a little farther than most…he’s pledged $200 if 100 others will do the same, to buy a FabLab for a developing country. You can read more about it in his blog .
Read more →I guess there still is power in the Press…within 24 hours of the most recent email newsletter going out we had 11 new Fabbers sign up! Not on our mailing list? Sign up here to get all the 100kGarages news delivered to your inbox.
Read more →Our big news in this issue is that the first phase of 100kGarages is live! That means that Fabbers can “officially” sign up to be included on the Fabbers Map (no more “early adopters”!), and Makers can browse the map to find a local shop or post a job on the 100kGarages JobBoard. We’ve...
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