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...
Read more →We knew there were 100kGarages Fabbers out there doing very groovy things and now we have some more proof! Let us introduce Dan Thomson and his business, Visionary Effects, based out of Pittsburgh, PA. Fabber and designer Dan Thomson gives life to robotic creatures, animatronic creations as well as invites human engagement with interactive...
Read more →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...
Read more →“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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Andrew McClary’s High Voltage Hot Rods gives new life to classic hot rods. You’re a believer in the potential of electric vehicle technology, and appreciate that it’s better for our environment. But the idea of driving a Prius to work every day is, well, kind of boring… Then again, a gorgeous, high-powered Tesla electric...
Read more →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...
Read more →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...
Read more →On July 7, 2012, NPR’s Jon Kalish reported on the growth of DIY making, specifically using 3-D printers to replace a broken part on a baby stroller for a lot less than what the manufacturer wanted for the part. Power to the makers! Our original 100kGarages partner, Ponoko, gets a nice mention, and Kalish references...
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The Designers: Anne Filson and Gary Rohrbacher are architects and designers who also teach architecture at the University of Kentucky. They dreamed of making a line of beautiful, functional furniture, called AtFAB, that people can fab themselves or have someone make for them using a ShopBot Tool or other CNC. To get started making...
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