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?"
100kGarage Community
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.
Ready
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.
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