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TechShop has been getting a lot of press lately. Below are some recent articles and blog posts about us.
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FORA.tv 05/14/12 (Web) Maker Faire presents: Maker Faire Bay Area 2012 - Center Stage |
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Wired 05/14/12 (Web) Ford + TechShop: Getting Employees to Tinker |
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| Before he invented the assembly line, Henry Ford built his first prototype on a workbench in a shed. More than a century later, his company has partnered with TechShop, Detroit, the 21st century equivalent ... | |||||||||
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InformationWeek 05/14/12 (Web) Is Open Source Hardware IT's Next Big Thing? |
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| Open source hardware isn't just for hobbyists. Early corporate adopters can reap business benefits. | |||||||||
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The Virtual Driver 05/11/12 (Web) TechShop: A Clubhouse for Dreamers and Doers |
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| Every kid needs a place to play, to unwind, to let their imagination run free, and the tools and tutoring necessary to brings those dreams to reality. | |||||||||
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Blog.AutoShopper 05/11/12 (Blog) TechShop Fuels Ford IP Folio |
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| Sometimes US automakers get it right. TechShop Detroit, a recent addition to Ford's Dearborn product development campus, is the perfect example. | |||||||||
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Hemmings Blog 05/10/12 (Blog) DIY auto restoration made easier: TechShop expands its membership-based workspaces |
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| With the advent of TechShop, we might no longer be able to use that excuse about the tools or the shop space. | |||||||||
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The News-Herald 05/10/12 (Video) ALLEN PARK: TechShop Detroit celebrates grand opening |
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| The ribbon-cutting ceremony Friday at the grand opening of TechShop was unlike others. | |||||||||
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Wards Auto 05/09/12 (Web) Ford Nurtures Employee Innovation With TechShop Partnership |
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| Ford hopes its involvement with the recently opened TechShop here will inspire employees to come up with the next automotive innovation and provide a new revenue stream for the company. | |||||||||
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RushLane 05/09/12 (Web) Ford encourages employees to submit ideas to TechShop |
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| Ford is offering a three month free membership to employees who submit ideas for invention to TechShop as a part of their plan to tap ideas and innovations ... | |||||||||
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Sacramento Bee 05/09/12 (Web) Ford driving innovation through TechShop membership incentive |
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| Henry Ford would have felt right at home in Michigan’s latest do-it-yourself workshop, the newly opened TechShop Detroit ... | |||||||||
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Forbes 05/08/12 (Web) Ford Inventors Unleash Innovation at TechShop |
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| TechShop Detroit opened last week. TechShop is the do-it-yourself workshop and fabrication studio, based in Menlo Park, Calif. and opening workshops around the USA | |||||||||
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Xconomy 05/07/12 (Web) Ford Offers Employees Free TechShop Memberships to Spur Innovation |
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| As TechShop Detroit celebrated its grand opening last weekend, Ford announced a new employee incentive program at the makerspace ... | |||||||||
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Detroit Free Press 05/05/12 (Video) Detroit TechShop Grand Opening |
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| Detroit TechShop had its grand opening in Allen Park, Mich. on Friday, May 4, 2012. This shop was planned to be the 39th one built, but through the persistence of Ford Motor Company, it came to life today with the cutting of a steel ribbon. | |||||||||
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Earl Powell 05/05/12 (Blog) The New Improved TechShop Menlo Park |
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| This week the management and staff have been working around the clock to complete a major upgrade to the Menlo Park Techshop... | |||||||||
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VentureBeat 05/04/12 (Web) Ford encourages employees’ tinkering with free TechShop memberships |
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| Some companies cater lunch on Fridays. Some throw in gym memberships or childcare or chair massages. Not Ford. These guys are going big: They’re giving invention-focused employees TechShop memberships | |||||||||
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Dearborn Free Press 05/04/12 (Web) TechShop is Dearborn Chamber’s Innovator of the Year |
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| TechShop, a membership-based, do-it-yourself workshop and fabrication studio, was awarded the 2012 Innovator of the Year award at the recent Dearborn Chamber of Commerce’s annual Business recognition Awards Ceremony & Expo (BRACE). | |||||||||
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DailyTech 05/04/12 (Web) Ford Kicks Off Detroit TechShop With Grand Opening |
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| Innovation space will allow inventors to learn valuable skills, access high tech machinery for only $99/month | |||||||||
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Detroit Free Press 04/29/12 (Web) Tom Walsh: Ford, TechShop create tinker's paradise |
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| I'm not sure I can adequately explain the purpose, scope and potential of a new venture taking shape in Allen Park, but I sense that it's important, so here goes: It starts with TechShop Detroit . . . | |||||||||
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CBS Detroit 04/26/12 (Web) TechShop To Open Maker Location In Allen Park |
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| Have you ever wanted to build something, but didn’t have the tools to make it? TechShop is the place for you. | |||||||||
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Artserve Michigan 04/25/12 (Web) techshop detroit: 'makers' of dreams |
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| The ultimate DIY workshop has been designed for ‘makers’ of all skill levels and it is now open for business in Allen Park thanks to a little help from Ford. | |||||||||
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mLive 04/24/12 (Web) Creativity starts with collaboration, Detroit business experts say |
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| A key to innovation? "Fail fast," said Mark Hatch, CEO of Techshop, at the Detroit Business Conference on Tuesday. | |||||||||
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The Kneeslider 04/20/12 (Web) TechShop Arrives in Detroit |
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| On May 5th and 6th, TechShop will be opening its newest location in Detroit, a city where there are probably quite a few guys who would really appreciate it. | |||||||||
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DearbornPatch 04/20/12 (Web) Metro Detroit's TechShop Gives Inventors, Artists the Tools to Create |
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| There’s one thing every would-be inventor needs to get their ideas off of paper and into reality, and it’s often the thing that’s hardest to come by: tools. | |||||||||
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ThinkGeek 03/13/12 (Blog) We wouldn't mind living at TechShop |
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| Have you ever been to a place and had the feeling of being surrounded by geek? | |||||||||
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Startup Weekend 03/02/12 (Web) Maker Startup Weekend Bay Area Kicks Off With A Bang |
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| Maker Startup Weekend Bay Area Kicked off with a bang at 9am as the TechShop opened its doors. The crowd flooded in ... | |||||||||
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Business Insider 02/21/12 (Web) This is where Jack Dorsey's vision for a new payment system came to life |
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| When Jack Dorsey came up with the idea for his payment startup, Square, he offered his partner, James McKelvey a pretty sweet deal. | |||||||||
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Autodesk 11/30/11 (Video) Autodesk University 2011 Gallery TechShop Tour |
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| See Jesse Harrington Au, Solutions Specialist - the Maker Advocate, Autodesk give a tour of the TechShop display at the Autodesk University 2011 Exhibit Hall. | |||||||||
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Co.Exist 09/13/11 (Web) TechShop’s Mark Hatch Is Building A Place Where You Can Build Your Dreams |
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| You don't need to look far to see that a growing community of makers--people who like to work on art- and science-based DIY projects--is blossoming in the U.S. Not all of these makers own the pricey tools necessary ... | |||||||||
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PR Newswire 07/11/11 (Web) Nation's Most Creative Minds Featured at Brooklyn Building Competition |
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If there was an award given for 'most mind-blowingly fun-looking thing likely to land you in the ICU,' then San Fran's Techshop would've taken it home. |
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Zap2it 05/25/11 (Web) Beyond 'Dirty Jobs': Mike Rowe wants a TV network to 'Shut Up & Make It' |
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| Fascinated by the idea of TechShop and some of the creations that have come out of it, Rowe started to mull over how it could be turned into a TV show. | |||||||||
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The Daily Journal 05/21/11 (Web) A paradise for do-it-yourselfers |
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| The TechShop, Huss said, is one of Maker Faire’s biggest success stories, and will most likely be one of its biggest vendors when it sets up under a 5,000-square-foot tent to display its equipment and project exhibits. | |||||||||
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marketwire 05/12/11 (Web) Mike Rowe of Discovery Channel's Dirty Jobs at Maker Faire Bay Area 2011 |
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| TechShop, the first membership-based DIY workshop and fabrication studio for makers, is excited to welcome Mike Rowe to Maker Faire, the world's preeminent DIY festival. | |||||||||
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Triple Pundit 05/10/11 (Web) SHARE SF: Is Having Access the New Ownership? |
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| Here's what a dip in the access economy might look like: you're at TechShop teaching someone from the local time bank how to make a robotic arm when you... | |||||||||
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CBS News Online 05/08/11 (Video) California's Tech Shop aiding job creation |
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| Scores of entrepreneurs in California have joined Tech Shop in Menlo Park, which provides members with access to industrial strength machinery. | |||||||||
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Disruptive By Design 05/08/11 (Video) Autodesk’s CEO Carl Bass Announces 123D |
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| Carl Bass Announces a new product from Autodesk and a joint venture with TechShop at WIRED's Business Conference - Disruptive by Design. | |||||||||
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Wired 05/03/11 (Blog) Democratizing Design: Autodesk’s CEO Carl Bass Announces 123D |
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| Autodesk’s partnership with Ponoko and Techshop will allow people to turn their dreams into reality - literally, Bass said. | |||||||||
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CNBC 05/03/11 (Video) Everyone Can Now Be A Manufacturer: Autodesk CEO |
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| "When you put the ability to make something in the hands of everybody, you’ll suddenly see all the ideas that were out there just waiting to come out" from "regular folks, not big companies." | |||||||||
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Fast Company 05/01/11 (Web) Brave New Co-working World |
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| So far, the model is attracting entrepreneurs from hot startups such as Square, which manufactures credit-card readers that plug into smartphones. | |||||||||
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Xconomy 04/20/11 (Web) Join Xconomy and TechShop on April 27 for “The Maker Revolution: From Workbench to Business” |
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| TechShop and Xconomy San Francisco are getting together to host an informal evening event called The Maker Revolution: From Workbench to Business. | |||||||||
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The Bold Italic 03/31/11 (Blog) Laser Pointers |
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| I was expecting the typical stuff that you’d find in a workshop, like band saws and such, but TechShop has a dizzying selection of what can only be described as industrial fabrication tooling: injection molders, 3-D printers, quilting machines, and laser cutters. | |||||||||
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USA Today 03/29/11 (Video) Workshop offers geeks industrial-strength toys |
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| Modeled after gyms, TechShop is attracting members who pay as little as $100 a month to use industrial strength equipment to invent whatever they can imagine. | |||||||||
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Wired 03/11/11 (Blog) Wired Video: TechShop Opens Tool Heaven in San Francisco |
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| If your town has a lending library for tools, consider yourself lucky. But if your town has TechShop, you’re in geek heaven. | |||||||||
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San Francisco Bay Guardian Online 02/24/11 (Blog) The Performant: Neat stuff |
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| Just when it felt like San Francisco could not possibly Do It Itself more than it already has, Jim Newton's TechShop moved to town. Now it will be almost impossible not to succumb to the temptation of learning welding, soldering, molding, ... | |||||||||
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NBC 02/22/11 (Video) TechShop Opens in San Francisco |
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| NBC Bay Area news story on the opening of Techshop in San Francisco, which is a membership-based public workshop that's helping innovators realize their dreams. | |||||||||
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KGO Radio 02/21/11 (Radio) KGO Coverage |
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| Interview with Founder Jim Newton. Interview starts 17 minutes into the broadcast. | |||||||||
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CNET 02/20/11 (Video) Entrepeneurs get hands-on with ideas at TechShop |
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| San Francisco's TechShop, which had its grand opening Saturday, is a community that wants to offer anyone the chance to be a big thinker, by providing a start-up environment equipped with just about any tool you can think of, along with training, ... | |||||||||
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San Francisco Chronicle 02/19/11 (Blog) Good Morning Mission! |
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| The grand opening of Tech Shop is today! Adam Savage from Mythbusters will be there, although there is no guarantee that he will bust any myths. He may lie to you. Be prepared. Tools, on the other hand, will never lie to you, and are worth venturing ... | |||||||||
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SFist 02/18/11 (Blog) SFist This Weekend: Chinese New Year, TechShop Opening, Tulipmania, Bluegrass Workshops |
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| SF TechShop Grand Opening: Aspiring and experienced DIY enthusiasts can rejoice over the opening of TechShop's new San Francisco location on Saturday. Check out some demos, take a tour, meet Mythbusters' Adam Savage, and enjoy some street food. ... | |||||||||
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The San Francisco Appeal 02/18/11 (Web) Do-It-Yourself Workshop Opens Doors Saturday In SOMA |
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| Dreamers, inventors and hobbyists alike will have a workshop to call home in San Francisco when TechShop, the first membership-based, do-it-yourself workshop and fabrication studio, opens its doors in the city on Saturday. | |||||||||
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Core77 02/18/11 (Blog) Saturday: Grand Opening of new TechShop in SOMA |
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| Tomorrow, those of you lucky enough to be in San Francisco can attend the Grand Opening event of TechShop's new SOMA location. | |||||||||
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BNET 02/16/11 (Web) TechShop: The Cheap, Easy Innovation Revolution |
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| "The cost of doing a start up now is less than a Starbucks addiction!" | |||||||||
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San Francisco Chronicle 02/16/11 (Print) TechShop SF open house for DIYers |
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| "Without TechShop, we never would have been able to bring the iPad DODOcase to market," Buckley says... | |||||||||
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Silicon Valley Business Journal 02/11/11 (Web) TechShop eyes third incubation location |
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| Calling all engineers, tinkerers and entrepreneurs: A new incubator coming to San Jose could be the place to launch your next business opportunity. Read more: TechShop eyes third incubation location | Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal | |||||||||
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Cruze-Arati 01/26/11 (Video) Cruzin' Silicon Valley 1: TechShop: Cruze-arati |
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Berkeleyside 01/25/11 Berkeleyside Local Business Forum: a call to action |
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| Anderson said Berkeley was a “perfect place” for such efforts, because of the concentration of digital know-how and excellent coffee shops. He advocated the creation of a “hacking space”, like Tech Shop in Menlo Park and San Francisco. | |||||||||
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Autoline Detroit 01/14/11 (Video) Technotronic |
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| A 25 Minute Show highlighting TechShop and some of its members and projects. | |||||||||
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Xconomy 12/16/10 (Web) TechShop's "Innovation Cathedral" Comes to San Francisco -- Serving Craftsmen and Entrepreneurs on the Gold’s Gym Model |
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| TechShop has almost every conceivable tool at the ready…It's a DIY enthusiast's paradise. | |||||||||
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The American Entrepreneur 12/14/10 (Radio) Getting the Most Out of Your Company’s Energy Bill: “Mike and Tony: The Energy Guys” |
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| Segment Titled: A Conversation With Jim Newton of TechShop | |||||||||
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Computer Graphics World 12/08/10 (Blog) Autodesk University 2010 |
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| A great concept and a great way to foster interest for those who are not the typical designer types: atypical engineers. | |||||||||
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Revit OpEd 12/01/10 (Blog) Autodesk University 2010 - Tuesday |
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| You could spend a lot of time there and still not spend more than you would on one serious piece of equipment. | |||||||||
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Deelip.com 11/30/10 (Blog) Autodesk University 2010 – Day 1 |
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| Autodesk is partnering with TechShop to get to the DIY market. | |||||||||
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NPR 11/28/10 (Radio) A Space For DIY People To Do Their Business |
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Businessweek 11/18/10 (Print) TechShop's Gadget Factory |
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| Meet a selection of the businesses that got their start at TechShop, a Bay Are company that charges inventors and hobbyists $125 a month to use its tools and gear | |||||||||
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Bloomberg 11/05/10 (Web) TechShop Expands, Helps Turn Inventions Into Viable Products |
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| ...TechShop, a Menlo Park, Calif., company that offers members access to workshops that make most tinkerers’ garages look like kindergarten classrooms. | |||||||||
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MenloParkPatch 09/29/10 (Web) Building Lunar Landers |
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| @TechShop: Where inventors go to turn their visions into reality. | |||||||||
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MarketWatch 09/23/10 (Web) 3D Systems Brings Its Printers to Maker Faire |
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| 3D Printers for 'Makers' and 'DIYs' at New York Hall of Science | |||||||||
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The Atlantic 09/15/10 (Blog) Boing Boing Co-Founder Mark Frauenfelder on Maker Education |
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| Kids in the Young Makers Program (just launched by Maker Media, Disney-Pixar, the Exploratorium, and TechShop) have built a seven-foot animatronic fire-breathing dragon, a stop-motion camera rig, a tool to lift roofing supplies, and new skateboard hardware. | |||||||||
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CNN Money.com 09/14/10 (Web) TechShop: A blowtorch-filled paradise for inventors |
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| Some members use the tools to fix up their kids' tricycles, build custom furniture or print logos on T-shirts. But more than half of them are chasing projects that, with luck, will go beyond the personal realm. | |||||||||
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CNN Newsroom 09/14/10 (Blog) THE BIG I: An Inventor's Paradise |
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| TechShop is a do-it-yourself-type workshop. | |||||||||
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Core77 09/09/10 (Blog) TechShop teams up with Autodesk to provide RP software and more |
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| ...TechShop has now teamed up with Autodesk to provide a full complement of digital Prototyping software and other design programs. | |||||||||
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San Jose Mercury News 09/05/10 (Print) Zero One techno-art festival takes off in San Jose |
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| ...TechShop, a crafts and machine shop in Menlo Park for people wishing to make everything from small belt buckles to large metal sculptures. | |||||||||
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The New York Times - Bits Blog 07/30/10 (Blog) D.I.Y. Detroit: A Hands-On Approach to Fixing the Auto Industry |
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| Geeks, engineers and do-it-yourselfers in Detroit will soon have a chance to take the future of the American automotive industry into their own hands. | |||||||||
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Inc. Magazine 07/01/10 (Print) How to Make More Manufacturers |
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| Plenty of Americans have the desire to make actual stuff, not just software. What they lack are the tools. We should help them. | |||||||||
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Kenneth Wong's Virtual Desktop 06/04/10 (Blog) Thinker, Tailer, Solider, Maker: Snapshots from Maker Faire Bay Area |
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| 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. | |||||||||
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San Francisco Examiner 05/18/10 (Print) Intersection's world-changing art |
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| 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. | |||||||||
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San Francisco Chronicle 05/05/10 (Print) Inventor's need for tools sparked TechShop |
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| Every mad scientist needs a laboratory. And for those who can't afford it, there's TechShop. | |||||||||
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San Francisco Chronicle 04/29/10 (Print) Chronicle's new neighbor: Intersection 5M |
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| And the Hub Bay Area, an international social entrepreneurs' collective, and TechShop, a collaborative tech workshop, along with Intersection for the Arts, . . . | |||||||||
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San Jose Mercury News 04/23/10 (Print) Cassidy: Silicon Valley's TechShop is a tinkerer's paradise |
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| TechShop is fast becoming a handyperson's heaven for anyone who likes to tweak, tinker, invent, iterate or inhale the sweet scent of creativity. | |||||||||
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San Francisco Examiner 04/19/10 (Print) Teens bring ingenuity to annual Maker Faire |
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| 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. | |||||||||
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The New York Times - Cover of the Business Section 04/10/10 (Print) Inventors Wanted. Cool Tools Provided. |
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| 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. | |||||||||
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The Oakland Tribune 03/04/10 (Print) Munroe: Incubators fertile ground for job creation |
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| 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. | |||||||||
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Revision3 09/08/08 (Video) Systm Episode 67 - Build Yourself A 'Segway' (at TechShop) |
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| Learn how this high school student did the Segway one better... by building his own self balancing scooter! | |||||||||
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Forbes Video Network 08/13/08 (Video) Build a Minty Boost with TechShop's Jim Newton |
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| Step-by-step directions to create one at home with the Minty Boost Kit. | |||||||||
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Forbes Video Network 08/13/08 (Video) Do-It-Yourself Dream Shop |
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| Silicon Valley's TechShop provides entrepreneurs with tools to build almost anything. | |||||||||
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Forbes Magazine 08/13/08 (Print) Gym For Geeks |
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| Jim Newton's TechShop gives creativity a place to work out. | |||||||||
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Forbes Magazine 08/13/08 (Print) Eight People Inventing The Future |
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| Grass-Roots Innovation Takes Root | |||||||||
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Forbes Magazine 08/13/08 (Print) In Pictures: Eight People Inventing The Future |
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| This year, in Forbes' annual E-Gang feature on technology innovators, we spotlight the work of eight leading do-it-yourselfers. | |||||||||
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Wired Blog - GeekDad 07/28/08 (Blog) TechShop: 'Like Kinko's, For Geeks' |
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| 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? | |||||||||
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LiveScience 07/25/08 (Video) TechShop: Where Inventors' Dreams Are Made |
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| A workshop capable of creating anything you design. | |||||||||
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California Green Solutions 06/29/08 (Blog) TechShop is a Lab/Workshop for Innovation -- Inventors, DIY and Makers |
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| TechShop is a community workshop for inventors who need specialized tools and like minded entrepreneur community | |||||||||
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Durham News 06/14/08 (Print) Man sets stage for mechanical Mecca |
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| Planned local TechShop would provide members access to buffet of equipment | |||||||||
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Los Angeles Times 06/09/08 (Print) TechShop: Where do-it-yourself inventors do R&D |
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| Silicon Valley workshop offers tools to an innovative community | |||||||||
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Ready Made Magazine 06/07/08 (Print) Father of Invention |
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ReadyMade Video 05/30/08 (Video) TechShop: Behind the Scenes |
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| Go behind the scenes at TechShop, a membership-supported workshop in Menlo Park, California. | |||||||||
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CBS News 05/08/08 (Video) Menlo Park Workshop Offers Space To Inventors |
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| 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. | |||||||||
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Core77 05/08/08 (Video) Core77 Video Drive-by: Maker Faire: TechShop |
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| TechShop is one of those things that makes so much sense you wonder why it hasn't been around forever. | |||||||||
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Bay Area Back Roads 05/03/08 (Video) Do-It-Yourself in the Bay Area |
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| We spoke with Natalie Zee-Drieu, Senior Editor of Craft Magazine, who gave us tips on art and craft places to do it yourself. | |||||||||
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Institute for the Future 05/01/08 (Print) Future of Making Map |
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| 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. | |||||||||
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Boing Boing tv 05/01/08 (Video) TechShop: a community tinkering space |
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| 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. | |||||||||
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Kevin Kelly's Cool Tools 04/28/08 (Blog) TechShop -- Industrial tinkering space |
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| 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? | |||||||||
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Inc. Magazine 03/01/08 (Print) From Tinkerer to Franchiser |
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| 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. | |||||||||
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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. |
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| Like many inventors, Terri Pickering thought she could make a better product than what was already on the market, so she invented one. | |||||||||
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ZDNet 11/05/07 (Blog) Hobbyists heed TechShop's siren song |
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| 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. | |||||||||
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CNET 11/05/07 (Blog) Geek Gestalt: Making whatever you want at TechShop |
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| 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. | |||||||||
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ZDNet 11/05/07 (Blog) Paradise for tech tinkerers |
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| It's no surprise, really, that something like TechShop could attract the interest and money required to expand to eight new cities. | |||||||||
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ABC News 09/23/07 (Video) Building A Cell Phone From Scratch |
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| Matt Hamrick and Craig Hughes are co-founders. The Club meets monthly at, and uses the tools at Silcon Valley's TechShop. | |||||||||
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Guy Kawasaki 09/10/07 (Blog) How to Change the World -- TechShop: Geek Heaven |
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| 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. | |||||||||
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Digg 09/10/07 (Blog) TechShop: Geek Heaven (1299 Diggs) |
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Silicon Valley WAVE Magazine 08/01/07 (Print) Club Creation |
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| Bay Area inventors can "work out" ideas at Tech Shop. | |||||||||
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Explo TV & Make Video Blog 07/21/07 (Video) Exploratorium Video: Tools for Making Things with Jim Newton |
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| 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. | |||||||||
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ABC News 07/02/07 (Blog) Menlo Park 'TechShop' Makes Brilliant Inventions Come To Life |
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| 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? | |||||||||
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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) |
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| Case Study #2: The Inventor's Best Friend | |||||||||
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CNET 05/04/07 (Blog) Silicon Valley engineers peek at the Tesla (at TechShop) |
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| 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. | |||||||||
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Palo Alto Weekly 09/29/06 (Print) Atherton man to unveil public TechShop |
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| Menlo Park open house this weekend for shop with industrial-grade tools for public use | |||||||||
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Make: Blog 08/29/06 (Blog) TechShop - A place for Makers to work on their projects |
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| Hey Makers! If you like to build stuff but you don't have the tools, equipment, space, or know-how, TechShop is for you! | |||||||||
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San Francisco Examiner 04/24/06 (Print) Seeking a 'place to go build stuff' |
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| Belmont resident Jim Newton has a dream, and it is filled with power tools. | |||||||||