Here’s an interesting vid about the fab@home peeps. – Link

Fab@home wiki – Link

3 of these were to be sold at Maker Faire and it looks like only one sold at $2500 – Link

Or maybe a very popular blog. But none the less our name is mentioned.

““You have to organize,” says Nick Farr, who set up ‘hackers on a plane’, hauling hackers from DefCon to Germany for a hacker camp. “All it takes is getting a group of people who are local and interested and start talking about it, get to a shared vision.”

“NYC Resistor is creating a space in Manhattan New York City, another group is working on an art gallery/hacker space in San Francisco, possibly the two most expensive cities in North America.”

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Under City Hall lies an abandoned subway stop and while it would be really difficult to heat in the winter, wouldn’t it be awesome to have a hacker space there?- Link

Note: If you ride the 6 train and fall asleep on it, the train circles through this station!

Peter Blasser is a circuit bender who publishes his circuits by drawing them out. This makes a lot of sense and makes it easy to see how everything is laid out. Print them out and put them next to your blank circuit board and use wire wrap or solder stuff together to make these musical instruments. [via] – Link

My buddy and RepRap co-conspirator, Vik Olliver has been having a string of successes lately. The most recent success was in printing a tiny wine glass. It may seem trivial, but it demonstrates some very important features of his machine: it can do circles, it can make watertight components, and it can do certain overhangs without support material.

Yay!