• Posts Tagged ‘distributed manufacturing’

    MAKE’s Hardware Innovation Conference and the Maker Movement

    by  • January 29, 2013 • collaboration, distributed manufacturing, Maker Movement, The Digital Fab Revolution

    “ 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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    Chris Anderson’s MAKERS: The New Industrial Revolution, reviewed by Ted Hall

    by  • January 23, 2013 • community shops, distributed manufacturing, The Digital Fab Revolution • 0 Comments

    If you haven’t had a chance to pick up Chris Anderson’s recently released new book, MAKERS: The New Industrial Revolution (Crown Business, New York, 2012), I think you’ll enjoy the read. Anderson has just ended a stint as editor of Wired Magazine and has been a close observer of the leading edges of technology...

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

    by  • November 19, 2012 • Featured 100k Users, The Digital Fab Revolution • 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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