A dream makers' and fabbers' pad

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Lion's bed head by Monkeys Workshop in Colorado.

100k Garages is a Mesh-web-enabled sharing-platform that pairs people who want to make things (Makers) with digital fabrication tools (Fabbers). Many projects are small businesses that sell unique items, like the bed head above. But 100k Garages, a team-up of ShopBot Tools and Ponoko, has big plans.

Using grass roots enterprise and ingenuity this community can help get us back in action — to modernize our public infrastructure, develop energy-saving alternatives, or simply produce great new products for our homes and businesses. There are already thousands of ShopBot CNC tools in garages and small shops across the country, ready to locally fabricate the components needed to address our energy and environmental challenges and to locally produce items needed to enhance daily living, work, and business.

Less than a two-years old, 100k Garages has won praise from its community and the press and is rapidly knitting together garages near you.