Neighborhood Fabrication Shops

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Description

Paul Fernhout:

"One of them is the large neighborhood shop with a lot of flexible machine tools. A few variations have been mentioned here in that direction (Men's Shed, FabLab, TechShop).

The Digital Fabrication revolution makes these local shops potentially much more capable and economically interesting than ten or twenty years ago. ShopBot is one example of such a tool, but all sorts of other processes are going digital too. We're seeing the increasing intermingling at some points of the digital and physical worlds. And we're seeing ever cheaper computing costs drive down costs for physical things made by such systems." (Open Manufacturing list, June 2009)


Examples

See:

  1. http://www.mensshed.org/
  2. http://fab.cba.mit.edu/
  3. http://techshop.ws/


More Information

  1. Book: David Morris. Neighborhood Power: The New Localism
  2. http://www.pdfernhout.net/sunrise-sustainable-technology-ventures.html