{"id":1223,"date":"2007-03-19T13:30:20","date_gmt":"2007-03-19T17:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=1223"},"modified":"2007-04-17T11:43:20","modified_gmt":"2007-04-17T15:43:20","slug":"commercializing-home-fabrication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=1223","title":{"rendered":"Commercializing Home Fabrication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the weekend I caught the story of the home-made fusion device and that got me thinking of the Fab@Home project I&#8217;d previously mentioned (<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=1072\">reLink<\/a>). I&#8217;d not surfed through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fabathome.org\/wiki\/index.php?title=Main_Page\">the site<\/a> 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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kobask8.com\/servlet\/Categories?category=Fab%40Home\">Koba Industries (Link)<\/a>. If I&#8217;m not mistaken, this is the same impressive little New Mexico-based business <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mfgquote.com\/profiles\/TMI--Koba-Industries-89251.html\">listed elsewhere (Link)<\/a>. Interesting.<\/p>\n<p>It definitely feels like the late 70&#8217;s, only instead of seeing ads for computer kits in magazines like Popular Mechanics, it&#8217;s fabbers being offered through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prostores.com\/\">eBay storefronts<\/a>. That&#8217;s gotta accelerate things.<\/p>\n<p>{P.S. For the <strong>jit-research.projectpath.com<\/strong> people visiting this entry, you might find an earlier post on a &#8220;just-in-time&#8221; system worth reading: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=577\">Smiley Face Savvy<\/a>&#8220;.}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the weekend I caught the story of the home-made fusion device and that got me thinking of the Fab@Home project I&#8217;d previously mentioned (reLink). I&#8217;d not surfed through the site and decided to see if there were any new &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=1223\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}