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During the Presidential debates, Tom Brokaw asked candidates Obama and McCain whether our challenges would be best solved by ... "funding a Manhattan-style project or by supporting 100,000 garages across America to encourage the kind of industry and innovation that developed Silicon Valley?"

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Want to Get Something Made ?

It could be a piece of furniture, a part for your new energy innovation, a cool art project, or an idea for emergency housing. It could be for a personal project, a remodeling idea, or an entrepreneurial initiative.

Inspired by Tom Brokaw's question to the presidential candidates, 100Kgarages is a community of workshops with digital fabrication tools for precisely cutting, machining, drilling, or sculpting the components of your project. We're here to help hook you, the "Maker", up with these workshops and the "Fabbers" that operate them.


garageReady to go Straight to a Fabber?  Want to connect directly with one of the garages? Find one near you by searching the Fabbers Map, or post your job on the 100kGarages JobBoard to get bids from Fabbers all over. (Find out how the JobBoard works)


Want to Do Some Design Work Yourself First? Feel like you need a little help designing your parts before talking to a Fabber? 100kGarages is also a place to learn how the process works and to help you create and refine your own creative designs and make them "Fabber ready"...Learn more here.


 Examples of Things Being Made...

 ... from doors for Extreme Makeover to "Designer Beds" 

Trade Show DisplayCustom GuitarDesigner "Bubble" BedRacer Car GuitarBear Bed HeadboardSnowflake Bedroom

We're starting a collection of examples of the kinds of projects that 100kGarage Fabbers are carrying out for Makers. You'll find everything from: the cutting out a simple part for a Maker's use in a larger project; to a complete designing and fabrication process for a Maker who has some ideas but wants help with the full project.
Click here to view full description of examples ...

"It has been the risk-takers, the doers, the Makers of things - some celebrated but more often men and women obscure in their labor, who have carried us up the long, rugged path towards prosperity and freedom." Barack Obama, Inaugural Speech 1/2009

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