This post was co-authored by Ted Hall and Bill Young. We aren’t sure anymore how we actually started 100kGarages – it goes back a ways. We do know it had a lot to do with a shared enthusiasm for digital fabrication and how it can help people get the things they need made. We...
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...
Read more →100kGarages.com has opened its virtual “garage doors” to an even wider community of makers, Fabbers and Designers. 100kGarages connects people who have ideas about things they want made with others who can make those items using the design and production process of digital fabrication. The site provides resources for digital design and web tools...
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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...
Read more →We just found out that 100kGarages was voted the “Best Downloadable Design Concept” in the Treehugger Best of Green 2010 Awards. The tagline for Best of Green is “Awarding Excellence in Sustainability“, and we thank the folks at Treehugger for recognizing the Green benefits of 100kGarages and localized manufacturing.
Read more →There’s a lot of interest in how we’re planning on expanding the types of digital tools in 100kGarages and we’ve posted our thoughts and plans at http://www.100kgarages.com/Whats_next.html , but we just wanted to make sure that everyone had a chance to look it over so we’ve re-posted it below: Since we first started thinking...
Read more →I have been wanting to post some thoughts on two recent, heavily discussed, blog articles , Chris Anderson’s (of Wired Magazine) report on new kinds of small manufacturing operations and Joel Johnson’s (of gizmodo) spirited critique. Between the two, there’s been a lot of good discussion of the ways in which new technologies do...
Read more →The innovative EasyCut, an end-to-end system that will manage the complete transaction for pre-paid fabrication jobs, is getting ready for beta testing and we’re looking for 5 beta-testing Fabbers to help out. Here’s what we’re looking for: Flexibility and an openness to new ideas. EasyCut is a completely new way of CNC cutting and...
Read more →I’ve recently posted a two-part web column on the ShopBot website that discusses some views on the economy as it relates to small business, digital fabrication, and 100kGarages (see, Part 1; Part 2). Among other things, it describes why we feel 100kGarages will offer new kinds of opportunities for those involved in digital fabrication....
Read more →We’ve been contacted by a museum that’s working an exhibit on Digital Fabrication for this spring, and wants to present 100kGarages and the ideas of distributed and local manufacturing in an interesting way. We’ve got some possibilities…having parts cut in lots of separate shops that are shipped and assembled at the museum, or having...
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