It started on 100kGarages: a great designer/fabber collaboration
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,...
View ArticleShopBot Tools expands 100kGarages.com, further supporting the growing digital...
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...
View ArticleNPR reports on DIY 3-D printing and 100kGarages
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...
View ArticleMaker space NextFab Studio re-opens in Philadelphia
ShopBot’s Ted Hall reports, “This past Thursday Jan. 17 I participated in the Re-Opening of NextFab Studio … an amazing local maker-space in Philadelphia. It’s a large workshop with all the equipment...
View ArticleMAKE’s Hardware Innovation Conference and the Maker Movement
“[The maker movement is] as significant as the shift from agriculture to the early industrial era.” Jeremy Rikin, Wharton economist. Bloomberg Business Week, 2/16/12 “Artificial intelligence,...
View Article“How to Make a Makerspace” attracts crowd of entrepreneurs to Artisan’s Asylum
The weekend of February 1 and 2, ShopBot’s Martha Barbour and Bill Young attended the How to Make a Makerspace event held at Artisan’s Asylum, a community Makerspace in Somerville, Massachusetts....
View ArticleWooden sink? Why not?
Marble, stainless, porcelain, and even pottery, we’ve all seen sinks made with basic materials but few of us have seen wooden sinks. Mike from America’s Woodshop in Bloomington created a turned wooden...
View ArticleA Maker’s Journey to Maker PRO: The Timbrr Stylus story
The first thing that strikes you when you step inside Dom Peralta’s garage/maker space in San Mateo isn’t necessarily the high-pitched drilling of his ShopBot Desktop’s spindle. Rather it’s the very...
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