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.
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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 about 100kGarages [...] 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 will evolve [...] 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. The second [...] 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 [...] 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 way [...] 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! 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 teachers [...] 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 it [...] ..but a job cutting 8 sheets of LinkerLogs was just posted on the 100kGarages JobBoard. The job is in Washington State, so if you’re a registered West-Coast 100kGarages Fabber and are interested in cutting some LinkerLogs for a school, check it out. And just in case you don’t know about LinkerLogs yet www.linkerlogs.com #gallery-1 { |
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