During the 2007 US 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
We're all "Makers" in one way or another,
because we all have something that we want to
make. 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 and you might
be able to make all the pieces yourself, but some
projects or components require a level of precision or
efficiency that you just can't do with the tools
or time that you have available.
Inspired by Tom Brokaw's question to the
presidential candidates, 100Kgarages is a
community of workshops all over the world that are
run by "Fabbers", with
digital
fabrication tools for precisely cutting,
machining, drilling, or sculpting the components
of your project. We're here to help hook you up
with these Fabbers. 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
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.
Want
to Do Some Design Work Yourself First? Feel like you need a little help designing your parts before
talking to a Fabber? Learn
more here.
"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