• Posts Tagged ‘production’

    Needed! New Manufacturing Heroes

    by  • October 31, 2016 • community shops, distributed manufacturing, The New Industrial Revolution • 0 Comments

    As a small manufacturer in Durham, NC, I’ve seen the stagnation of manufacturing and the job crisis up close. Jobs matter here and elsewhere. Yet, as anyone who has walked the downtown streets of rust-belt towns knows, returning manufacturing to our communities has an important value beyond that of creating jobs. We’ve learned from...

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    Press Fit: A Kickstarter Success via MIT’s FabLab and 100kGarages

    by  • September 18, 2014 • Design, distributed manufacturing, Featured 100k Users, furniture, Maker Pro, The Digital Fab Revolution, The New Industrial Revolution • 0 Comments

    David Yamnitsky graduated in June of 2014 with a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT, and is continuing as a graduate student at the Center for Bits and Atoms at the MIT Media Lab. He never thought when he entered MIT, that a couple of years later he’d be launching a...

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    Light up your phone notifications and turn down the noise with MyHue

    by  • September 10, 2014 • Design, Featured 100k Users, Handibot Power Tool, Maker Movement, Maker Pro, prototyping, shopbot, The New Industrial Revolution • 0 Comments

    100kGarages member Ryan Patterson, who is also the head of Production Support at ShopBot, was sitting at his ShopBot Tools desk when he saw a problem calling out for an innovative solution. “Our main office area at ShopBot is a large, open environment,” Ryan explained. “People receiving texts, notifications, emails and phone calls on...

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    People, Not Pixels: Thoughts on start-up success from the Standing Desk Ninja

    by  • January 22, 2014 • collaboration, community shops, maker spaces, prototyping, shopbot, The Digital Fab Revolution, The New Industrial Revolution • 1 Comment

    The Ninja Standing Desk is just like it sounds — and it may well be the world’s first portable and affordable version of the permanently installed workstations you see around office and home businesses around the country. The “Ninja” behind the Ninja Standing Desk (www.NinjaStandingDesk.com) is San Franciscan Dan McDonley, and his product has...

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    NPR reports on Manufacturing 2.0…. at least some of it!

    by  • December 31, 2013 • The Digital Fab Revolution, The New Industrial Revolution • 0 Comments

    Interesting article on Dec. 26, 2013 by NPR’s Chris Arnold on the growth in higher-tech manufacturing processes in the U.S. It sheds light on what a lot of us know, that the new jobs in manufacturing will be there for those with the new skills needed to operate digital fabrication equipment… The article features...

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    What’s Cutting at McKenzie Digital Fab

    by  • February 23, 2013 • Featured 100k Users • 0 Comments

    Another week, another set of projects that keep my ShopBot humming. Here is video of some of the cutting that I have done this past week! McKenzie Digital Fab video http://youtu.be/3X8FkPAFxU0 The first part of the video starts out cutting an impact modified acrylic for a customer of mine who is making windshields for...

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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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    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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