Inventables CEO Zach Kaplan on the New Industrial Revolution
Lots of people have been writing about it. We thought that Zach Kaplan’s little video does a really nice job of summing up what a big change this represents for designing, manufacturing, and making a...
View ArticleWorld’s first “origami” kayak sets sail out of TechShop SF
Designer and Oru Kayak founder Anton Willis grew up in rural Mendocino County, with easy access to rivers, lakes, and the ocean. In 2008, a move into a small San Francisco apartment forced his...
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...
View Article100kGaragers featured in the AtFAB Open Source Living Room
Designers and architects Anne Filson and Gary Rohrbacher of AtFAB created an innovative and fun destination at this year’s “flagship” Maker Faire in San Mateo. As Anne explained, “We designed the AtFAB...
View ArticleOn Digital Fab and the Next Industrial Revolution
During the last several years I have written a number of times about digital fabrication being the catalyst for the “next industrial revolution”. As our own best example, we see our “open” design,...
View ArticleFabLab Tacoma serves the community’s students and entrepreneurs
Founded in late 2012 by Stephen Tibbitts, FabLab Tacoma is a community-based prototyping and technology workshop that’s open to the public with a membership business model. I spoke with Stephen...
View ArticleADX Portland makerspace serves a thriving creative community
Talking recently with ADX Portland’s founder and owner Kelley Roy, she commented that about 1500 people move to Portland every month, and among these are a lot of people who are joining a growing...
View Article100kGarager Profile: InHaus Fabrication of Eugene, Oregon
Kristopher Schaefer started InHaus Fabrication, a digital fabrication shop, in May of 2014, and things have been buzzing ever since. InHaus provides prototype production, industrial design service,...
View ArticleFurniture Makers are Thinking and Working Green
Furniture maker and Furniture Society Board of Trustees President Steffi Dotson has published an article, “Green Furniture: As Assessment of Furniture Society Member Work” in the Journal of Green...
View ArticleNeeded! New Manufacturing Heroes
As a small manufacturer in Durham, NC, I’ve seen the stagnation of manufacturing and the job crisis up close. Jobs matter here and elsewhere. Yet, as anyone who has walked the downtown streets of...
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