When we first started thinking about 100kGarages, we figured that the way to sustainably generate business for Fabbers was to start by signing up Fabbers to fill in the map, rather than trying to interest Makers when there wasn’t anyone to actually do the cutting….that Makers looking at an empty map was the quickest...
Read more →Springwise , a popular site that covers entrepreneurship, just posted their “Top 10 business ideas for 2010” list and 100kGarages was #8 on their list: Connecting Creative Consumers with Local Fabricators. We knew it was a great idea all along!
Read more →Linda Stone just posted about National Lab Day on the OReilly Radar. Check out her posting Working Together to Create a National Learning Community and see if you don’t agree that a “100k Make Day” might be a great way to both show people what digital fabrication shops can do, and to help out...
Read more →Well, we actually finished the MakerBot we’re building to learn a little more about additive 3d printing about a month ago and did a couple of successful builds. Unfortunately we forgot the fundamental rule of digital tools and didn’t turn Linux updates off, causing a catastropic plunge of the Z axis and Plastruder when...
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The latest 100kGarages newsletter just came out yesterday..here it is in all it’s goodness. If you don’t already get it in yiour inbox you can sign up at newsletter.100kgarages.com: Well…when we say the 100kGarages newsletter comes out “semi-occasionally” we really mean it! It’s not from lack of action though, and those of you that have...
Read more →John Maeda, President of Rhode Island School of Design, wrote a blog posting recently about Apple and commented that STEM…Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math…is no more important than what he calls IDEA…Intuition, Design, Emotion, and Art. “Right now, our nation sees left-brain thinking, focused on logic and reasoning, as critical to future economic development....
Read more →President Obama recently announced a new “Educate to Innovate” initiative to help build the US education system’s performance in STEM…Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math. And it even had robots! There are lots of proposals but one that seemed especially interesting was “National Lab Day” and the quote that’s right at the top of their...
Read more →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 →We’ve been so busy at 100kGarages that we let an important milestone slip by…the 100th Fabber! Now we wouldn’t feel so bad about missing it if we had missed it by a little bit and realized when there were maybe 101 or 102 Fabbers, but we just lost count and now there are 115!...
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