[Noisebridge-discuss] make an amazon kindle at home

[Jake]

http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2011/09/15/part-8-will-you-soon-be-able-to-make-amazons-kindle-at-home/

The revolution in how we make things
For example:

At a research meeting in late 2010, a primatologist studying monkey 
genetics took a tour of a universitys digital fabrication shop. She 
mentioned that her field research had stalled because a specialized 
plastic comb, used in DNA analysis of organic samples, had broken. The 
primatologist had exhausted her research budget and couldnt afford a new 
one, but she happened to be carrying the old comb with her. One of the 
students in the shop, an architect by training, asked to borrow it. He 
captured its outline with a desktop scanner, and took a piece of scrap 
acrylic from a shelf. Booting up a laptop attached to a laser cutter, he 
casually asked, How many do you want?