Over the weekend I caught the story of the home-made fusion device and that got me thinking of the Fab@Home project I’d previously mentioned (reLink). I’d not surfed through the site and decided to see if there were any new developments. There was. About a month ago Fab@Home kits were being offered for sale by an outfit called Koba Industries (Link). If I’m not mistaken, this is the same impressive little New Mexico-based business listed elsewhere (Link). Interesting.

It definitely feels like the late 70’s, only instead of seeing ads for computer kits in magazines like Popular Mechanics, it’s fabbers being offered through eBay storefronts. That’s gotta accelerate things.

{P.S. For the jit-research.projectpath.com people visiting this entry, you might find an earlier post on a “just-in-time” system worth reading: “Smiley Face Savvy“.}