Your Quick Guide to 100kGarages Resources
The Fabbers Map is a way to find Fabbers and Designers nearby, or those anywhere who have the expertise or equipment you need. We’re continually working on the search system to make it easier for you...
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 ArticleMaking My Future: The Journey of a 100kGarages Fabber
“I’ve always been fascinated with how things worked. I guess I’ve been a Maker since I was about ten years old.” Hi, I’m Brian McKenzie, of McKenzie Digital Fab – a business that I just recently “gave...
View ArticleComing Feb. 11-12: @Manufacturing Works, an IEI Forum for North Carolina
Coming up Feb. 11 and 12 here in North Carolina, the Institute for Emerging Issues will be hosting their 2013 Forum called @Manufacturing Works. Technology thought leaders like Chris Anderson (formerly...
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 ArticleInventables 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 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 ArticleCan’t get a mortgage? Get a kit and build your own code-compliant home.
Not since the 1950′s has there been a readily available, sturdy, home building kit for use by any novice. With Homebuilt, architect Dennis Michaud is writing a new chapter in American home building. He...
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 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...
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