People Using ShopBots

President Obama recently visited a Fab Lab in the Technology Department at Lorain County (Ohio) Community College where he got a quick demonstration of a ShopBot in action. Fab Labs are MIT-organizied technology facilities with digital fabrication equipment intended to educate communities in how new digital tools can be used to design and make almost anything. They are used for local training at all levels and for helping small business start-ups fabricate prototypes. ShopBots are a standard fixture in most Fab Labs and we are glad the President got a look at how digital fabrication works and how it can empower the productivity of communities and small shops across the country. We hope he will get a chance to visit one of the 100kGarages.com workshops before long to see how digital fabrication works for distributed production. [See full article from Cleveland Plain Dealer]