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Apr 10, 2018

Robotics Week: Production Robots Making Competition Robots — Going META with FIRST Robotics

A shout-out to Team #900, the Zebracorns, one of our local FIRST Robotics teams here in Durham, NC. Sophisticated, inspired, robots, pushing the limits of the game/design challenges. The team recently did a progress review for their key supporters: an evening of robotics-in-action covering planning and work so far this…

3D Printing

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Robotics Week: Production Robots Making Competition Robots — Going META with FIRST Robotics
Robotics Week: Production Robots Making Competition Robots — Going META with FIRST Robotics
3D Printing

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Apr 10, 2018

Robotics Week: The New, Small Manufacturing is About Production Robotics

Over the last several months, I have spoken to several groups about robotics in small manufacturing. Everyone gets that robots, and specifically the digital-fabricating robots that are particularly interesting to me, are machines that offer useful automation — automation in the sense of helping a producer make a lot of…

3D Printing

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Robotics Week: The New, Small Manufacturing is About Production Robotics
Robotics Week: The New, Small Manufacturing is About Production Robotics
3D Printing

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Jan 21, 2017

Bringing Manufacturing Back to Our Communities: What’s to be Done?

I’ve argued for revitalizing manufacturing in our communities by encouraging and supporting new, local entrepreneurs whose small manufacturing operations will be made competitive by digital fabrication technologies and digital infrastructures. But how do we accomplish that encouragement? The answer is simple: grow local support. Grow facilities, incubators, and infrastructures appropriate…

Urban Planning

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Bringing Manufacturing Back to Our Communities: What’s to be Done?
Bringing Manufacturing Back to Our Communities: What’s to be Done?
Urban Planning

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Dec 13, 2016

Eating Our Own Dogfood — or Is This Just Shameless Promotion?

Having proclaimed the virtues of digital fabrication as a way to make local, small-manufacturing competitive again, I need to explain that for me this is not just an abstract concept. At ShopBot/Handibot, we’re betting on it. …

3D Printing

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Eating Our Own Dogfood — or Is This Just Shameless Promotion?
Eating Our Own Dogfood — or Is This Just Shameless Promotion?
3D Printing

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·Dec 5, 2016

Two Challenges Facing Technology-Based, Small Manufacturing

Bringing manufacturing back to our communities will not happen automatically. Yes, we can be hopeful about re-invigorating local manufacturing in a new-industrial-revolution world based on digital fabrication technologies. Digital fabrication leapfrogs the labor-demanding and capital-intense mass production methods that defined the last industrial revolution. …

Manufacturing

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Two Challenges Facing Technology-Based, Small Manufacturing
Two Challenges Facing Technology-Based, Small Manufacturing
Manufacturing

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Nov 8, 2016

Complexity Comes Free: The Manufacturing Paradigm-Shift Powered by Digital Fabrication

The “new industrial revolution” promises a paradigm-shift that can favor the entrepreneurial small manufacturer. This opportunity for the little guy creates an opening for re-establishing manufacturing in our communities. The enabling technology that underlies the opportunity is called digital fabrication. Digital fabrication, for many types of products, leapfrogs the current…

3D Printing

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Complexity Comes Free: The Manufacturing Paradigm-Shift Powered by Digital Fabrication
Complexity Comes Free: The Manufacturing Paradigm-Shift Powered by Digital Fabrication
3D Printing

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Oct 31, 2016

Manufacturing Heroes: Or… On Not Making-It in America

When the eager hero of the “Start-Up” podcast (Season 1) pitches his pod-casting business plan to a Silicon Valley venture capitalist, the VC lets him know that his dream is no more than that of a small-minded, “life-style” entrepreneur. The budding business-builder is deflated. The plan he’s carefully honed for…

3D Printing

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Manufacturing Heroes: Or… On Not Making-It in America
Manufacturing Heroes: Or… On Not Making-It in America
3D Printing

7 min read

Ted Hall

Ted Hall

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A manufacturing future based on new fabrication technologies. Founder http://www.ShopBotTools.com, http://www.Handibot.com & http://www.100kGarages.com

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