TechShop in the Press

TechShop has been getting a lot of press lately. Below are some recent articles and blog posts about us.

	Inc. Magazine 07/01/10 (Print) How to Make More Manufacturers
	Plenty of Americans have the desire to make actual stuff, not just software. What they lack are the tools. We should help them. . . .TechShop has become a de facto incubator for an astounding array of start-ups.
	Kenneth Wong's Virtual Desktop 06/04/10 (Blog) Thinker, Tailer, Solider, Maker: Snapshots from Maker Faire Bay Area
	Would you ever need to own a laser cutter, a metal welder, or a milling machine? For most, the answer is, "Probably not." But sometimes, when inspiration strikes, you might want to churn out a pair of laser-engraved earrings or a welded sculpture.
	San Francisco Examiner 05/18/10 (Print) Intersection's world-changing art
	The Hub and TechShop are relatively new membership organizations committed to democratizing access, and allowing opportunities for small nonprofit and for-profit businesses to thrive. "TechShop is about people realizing their dreams," Cullinan says. "It generates the necessary support to help them build and create things they couldn't do on their own."
	San Francisco Chronicle 05/05/10 (Print) Inventor's need for tools sparked TechShop
	Every mad scientist needs a laboratory. And for those who can't afford it, there's TechShop.
	San Francisco Chronicle 04/29/10 (Print) Chronicle's new neighbor: Intersection 5M
	And the Hub Bay Area, an international social entrepreneurs' collective, and TechShop, a collaborative tech workshop, along with Intersection for the Arts, . . .
	San Jose Mercury News 04/23/10 (Print) Cassidy: Silicon Valley's TechShop is a tinkerer's paradise
	TechShop is fast becoming a handyperson's heaven for anyone who likes to tweak, tinker, invent, iterate or inhale the sweet scent of creativity.
	San Francisco Examiner 04/19/10 (Print) Teens bring ingenuity to annual Maker Faire
	There's no competition and no approval process, just an eager team of volunteer technical advisors from the Exploratorium, TechShop and Disney/Pixar to help them work out the fine points of the design.
	The New York Times - Cover of the Business Section 04/10/10 (Print) Inventors Wanted. Cool Tools Provided.
	MARK HATCH sees the revolution going something like this: Wealthy, love-handled Americans will turn off their televisions, put down their golf clubs and step away from their Starbucks coffees. Then they will direct their disposable income and free time toward making things -- stuff like chairs, toys and, say, synthetic diamonds. They will do this because the tools needed to make really cool things have become cheaper and because humans feel good when they make really cool things.
	The Oakland Tribune 03/04/10 (Print) Munroe: Incubators fertile ground for job creation
	They include the proposed addition of branches in San Francisco and San Jose in 2010 by TechShop, an incubator company with three West Coast branches.
	Revision3 09/08/08 (Video) Systm Episode 67 - Build Yourself A 'Segway' (at TechShop)
	Learn how this high school student did the Segway one better... by building his own self balancing scooter! Daniel Fukuba might look like an ordinary teenager but this gadget building maestro designed and fabricated his very own Segway-like scooter! It works... and chances are you can build one, too. It wouldn't hurt to have access to a place like Menlo Park, CA's fabulous Tech Shop, a DIY haven of of expertise and space to make. Think 'co-op' for people that like to build. In exchange for a modest monthly fee, Daniel had access to tons of tools he might not have been able to a afford.
	Forbes Video Network 08/13/08 (Video) Build a Minty Boost with TechShop's Jim Newton
	Step-by-step directions to create one at home with the Minty Boost Kit.
	Forbes Video Network 08/13/08 (Video) Do-It-Yourself Dream Shop
	Silicon Valley's TechShop provides entrepreneurs with tools to build almost anything.
	Forbes Magazine 08/13/08 (Print) Gym For Geeks
	Jim Newton's TechShop gives creativity a place to work out. TechShop in Menlo Park, Calif., is 15,000 square feet of carbon fiber bending, welding, sand-blasting stuff to build with.
	Forbes Magazine 08/13/08 (Print) Eight People Inventing The Future
	Grass-Roots Innovation Takes Root Jim Newton's technology workshop is a playground of plasma-cutters, welding machines and lasers.
	Forbes Magazine 08/13/08 (Print) In Pictures: Eight People Inventing The Future
	This year, in Forbes' annual E-Gang feature on technology innovators, we spotlight the work of eight leading do-it-yourselfers. What He's Doing: Being the tinkerers' landlord. His tech workshop is 15,000 square feet of plasma-cutting, wood-working, welding and spray-painting tools--all available for a monthly fee.
	Wired Blog - GeekDad 07/28/08 (Blog) TechShop: 'Like Kinko's, For Geeks'
	Imagine gathering in one place dozens of the local -- and not so local -- geekerati. Picture an assembly of artists, technicians, designers and engineers. Hobbyists, tinkerers, and the geeky-by-trade. Young and old, men and women of every stripe, their only common trait a drive to build and create. What could draw this crowd together? What lure would bring some of them a hundred miles or more? Would you believe me if I said all it took was an empty building?
	LiveScience 07/25/08 (Video) TechShop: Where Inventors' Dreams Are Made
	A workshop capable of creating anything you design.
	California Green Solutions 06/29/08 (Blog) TechShop is a Lab/Workshop for Innovation -- Inventors, DIY and Makers
	TechShop is a community workshop for inventors who need specialized tools and like minded entrepreneur community It's doing for physical goods what Kinko's did for printed products, said David Pescovitz, a research director at the Institute for the Future, a forecasting group in Menlo Park.
	Durham News 06/14/08 (Print) Man sets stage for mechanical Mecca
	Planned local TechShop would provide members access to buffet of equipment "If I had had a place like this available to me when I was a youngster ... no telling what I could have conjured up," says Hoffman, a graduate of N.C. State University's School of Design.
	Los Angeles Times 06/09/08 (Print) TechShop: Where do-it-yourself inventors do R&D
	Silicon Valley workshop offers tools to an innovative community TechShop has the potential to be the service bureau to the maker culture.
	Ready Made Magazine 06/07/08 (Print) Father of Invention
	TechShop's Jim Newton invites everyone into the garage. As any apartment-dwelling tinkerer will tell you, few things stymie the creative spirit more than lack of space or lack of access to tools.
	ReadyMade Video 05/30/08 (Video) TechShop: Behind the Scenes
	Go behind the scenes at TechShop, a membership-supported workshop in Menlo Park, California.
	CBS News 05/08/08 (Video) Menlo Park Workshop Offers Space To Inventors
	To most people, people use their garages to park their cars. But to Silicon Valley engineers and inventors, it's the place to create the next big thing.
	Core77 05/08/08 (Video) Core77 Video Drive-by: Maker Faire: TechShop
	TechShop is one of those things that makes so much sense you wonder why it hasn't been around forever. Based in Menlo Park, CA, it's a massive, public, subscription-based machine shop and fabrication studio that actively encourages the mechanically curious to get their hands dirty and start making things. In addition to all the routers, laser cutters, welding equipment and RP machines they run, TechShop also offers low-cost classes to get newbies building as quickly as possible.
	Bay Area Back Roads 05/03/08 (Video) Do-It-Yourself in the Bay Area
	We spoke with Natalie Zee-Drieu, Senior Editor of Craft Magazine, who gave us tips on art and craft places to do it yourself.
	Institute for the Future 05/01/08 (Print) Future of Making Map
	Two future forces, one mostly social, one mostly technological, are intersecting to transform how goods, services, and experiences--the "stuff" of our world--will be designed, manufactured, and distributed over the next decade. An emerging do-it-yourself culture of "makers" is boldly voiding warranties to tweak, hack, and customize the products they buy.
	Boing Boing tv 05/01/08 (Video) TechShop: a community tinkering space
	Today on Boing Boing tv, Xeni visits TechShop, an open-access public workshop that's kind of like a health club with heavy machinery and sparks instead of treadmills.
	Kevin Kelly's Cool Tools 04/28/08 (Blog) TechShop -- Industrial tinkering space
	Wouldn't it be great to have a full machine shop at your disposal, with dozens of industrial tools also at your disposal, and all you have to do is contribute to the upkeep? Motorcycle customizers, automotive gearheads, robot war fanatics, electronics fabricators, modelmakers, metal benders, burning man artists, startup companies, mechanical engineering students: I've met all of these at TechShop, and I'm sure quite a few others that defy categorization.
	Inc. Magazine 03/01/08 (Print) From Tinkerer to Franchiser
	Since being featured in our start-up issue ("How to Launch a Cool, Profitable, Kick-ass Start-up," July), Jim Newton has been in high demand.
	San Diego Business Journal 02/25/08 (Print) Jewelry innovator networks her way to getting 'bling' to market: inventor might find snap decision leads to success.
	Like many inventors, Terri Pickering thought she could make a better product than what was already on the market, so she invented one.
	ZDNet 11/05/07 (Blog) Hobbyists heed TechShop's siren song
	At TechShop, a Menlo Park, Calif., business that invites the public to come and use a wide variety of personal-fabrication machines and tools, a piece of bread has gone through a laser-etching machine.
	CNET 11/05/07 (Blog) Geek Gestalt: Making whatever you want at TechShop
	After covering three Maker Faires over the last year and a half, one thing has become clear: there are one heck of a lot of people out there who like to make things.
	ZDNet 11/05/07 (Blog) Paradise for tech tinkerers
	It's no surprise, really, that something like TechShop could attract the interest and money required to expand to eight new cities. TechShop is a 13-month-old operation here that is hard to classify. Let's call it a mix between a fabrication lab, a mechanic's shop, a do-it-yourself pottery shop, and a health club.
	ABC News 09/23/07 (Video) Building A Cell Phone From Scratch
	Matt Hamrick and Craig Hughes are co-founders. The Club meets monthly at, and uses the tools at Silcon Valley's TechShop.
	Guy Kawasaki 09/10/07 (Blog) How to Change the World -- TechShop: Geek Heaven
	One of the challenges that geeks, inventors, hobbyists, hackers, burners, and artists who are trying to change the world face is finding a place to do their work. The community of people at TechShop is probably the best part of working on a project there. All sorts of interesting, smart people hang out at TechShop and work on projects ranging from electric vehicles from bikes to motorcycles to cars to commercial vans, self-balancing human transport devices, robots, inventions, prototypes, Burning Man projects, and everyday hobby projects.
	Digg 09/10/07 (Blog) TechShop: Geek Heaven (1299 Diggs)
	This stuff should be worldwide! If you need a place to get a prototype made, this is a fantastic place to get tremendous help! Take a tour and it will blow your mind- even if you are 'technologically impaired' and 'un-handy' as I am.
	Silicon Valley WAVE Magazine 08/01/07 (Print) Club Creation
	Bay Area inventors can "work out" ideas at Tech Shop. "To say that we're going to change the world with this is really a literal statement," says Tech Shop founder Jim Newton, clearly somewhat in awe of his own invention.
	Explo TV & Make Video Blog 07/21/07 (Video) Exploratorium Video: Tools for Making Things with Jim Newton
	While demonstrating how to build an electromechanical digital clock, Jim Newton talks about different kinds of tools--from low-tech, such as a drill press or a welder, to high-tech, such as laser and plasma cutters.
	ABC News 07/02/07 (Blog) Menlo Park 'TechShop' Makes Brilliant Inventions Come To Life
	When you need to make copies, you go to a copy shop. When you need to make a picture frame, you go to a frame shop. But where do you go when you need to make the next brilliant invention?
	Inc. Magazine 07/01/07 (Print) How to Launch a Cool, Profitable, Worth-All-The-Risk, Kick-Ass Start-Up (And Live To Brag About It)
	Case Study #2: The Inventor's Best Friend The business proposition: A chain of workshops that cater to inventors, tinkerers, and hobbyists.
	CNET 05/04/07 (Blog) Silicon Valley engineers peek at the Tesla (at TechShop)
	If you want to pack a room of mechanical engineers in Silicon Valley, just trot out its hottest new symbol of status and geekery, the Tesla Roadster.
	Palo Alto Weekly 09/29/06 (Print) Atherton man to unveil public TechShop
	Menlo Park open house this weekend for shop with industrial-grade tools for public use With the demise of high-school shop classes in California and elsewhere and with the relocation of blue-collar jobs to Central America and South Asia, Californians born after 1970 have little first-hand experience with jobs in which sparks fly, metal filings collect on work boots, and hands take on a grimy patina.
	Make: Blog 08/29/06 (Blog) TechShop - A place for Makers to work on their projects
	Hey Makers! If you like to build stuff but you don't have the tools, equipment, space, or know-how, TechShop is for you! The most exciting part of TechShop is the community that is already springing up around it.
	San Francisco Examiner 04/24/06 (Print) Seeking a 'place to go build stuff'
	Belmont resident Jim Newton has a dream, and it is filled with power tools. This summer, he plans to open up a workshop filled with the kinds of machines that help people make things, available constantly to his fellow Peninsula tinkerers, machinists, robot-makers and do-it-yourselfers.