Shapeways, one of our favorite 3d printing services, just tried an experiment by raising the price of one of their bestselling products from $25 to $45. That’s not so strange in the business world, but the unusual thing about it was that they were completely upfront about their reasons and posted it in their...
Read more →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 →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 →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 →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...
Read more →Things are moving along with 100kGarages on a lot of fronts…here’s the latest news: The big news is that the content is locked while the Ponoko guys work on the registration modules and the JobBoard. We’re looking forward to being REALLY live. Fortunately we can keep adding Fabbers to the map while David and...
Read more →We opened up the Fabbers Map to early adopters a couple of days ago and got a great response. So much so that we closed registration to help us sort out what worked (and what didn’t) and to refine the questions in the signup form to make it easier (for us really!). We’ve just...
Read more →We’ll be opening up Fabber registration to ShopBotters in the next couple of weeks that will give you a pushpin in the Fabber map and let you bid on jobs in the Job Board when it comes online. The requirements for this first level of participation are pretty simple… * ShopBot must have you listed...
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