Stanford's Mechanical Engineering department's Product Realization Laboratory(stanforddaily.com)

9 pointsby cwanvor 16 Jahren4 comments

Stanford's Mechanical Engineering department's Product Realization Laboratory

http://www.stanforddaily.com/2011/01/07/building-it-bigger-design-comes-to-life-at-the-prl/

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dskhatrivor 16 Jahren

If you are in Los Angeles, there are several affordable machine shops here. I'll be taking the Venice Machine Shop class starting next Monday (http://venicemachine.com/). For only $55, you get 6 hours of machine shop access for 3 months! El Camino College has a more modern machine shop with all sorts of cool prototyping machines but the classes are on weekday mornings (http://southbaymachine.com/). Machine shops in other parts of our fair & sprawling region are listed here: http://venicemachine.com/expandedinfo/machineshopclasses.htm

There are also Fab Labs around the world: http://fab.cba.mit.edu/about/labs/

hrqvor 16 Jahren

Anything like this in Boston that people know about?

dskhatrivor 16 Jahren

It appears there is an Open Access Fab Lab at the South End Technology Center in Boston (http://www.tech-center-enlightentcity.tv/)

MIT students have access to several shops such as the Edgerton Center Shop: http://web.mit.edu/Edgerton/www/Shop.html. Others are described here: http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/learning/libraries_facil...

madhvor 16 Jahren

“Engineers and designers are much more powerful if they have built things."