A Fabber’s Thoughts on the New Industrial Revolution

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 and [...]

Any big thinkers in the crowd?

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 the [...]

Educate to Innovate...a new White House initiative

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 [...]