New Year’s Soup Time! 2024: Making project 1: Making is what we do. Gets old just doing “head work.” Can’t eat a good idea, but a good soup? Horse of a different something or other. We cleaned up the lean-to greenhouse a bit and did a good harvest of the bok choi. Taking ’em into the kitchen, a made New Year’s soup, Asia style. Here’s how it goes (feel free to modify as your Inner …
Stop Global Collapse! The Answer is Distributed Manufacturing. Done on low-cost 3D printers. CHINA IS GOING OFF-LINE, too! Turn off your long supply lines. Lower the cost of goods to consumers. Get people designing and innovating again. “How?” With Ultra-Make. We’re a new business model: We champion “emailable” products. Things the new Maker Class of Designers and next-gen Manupreneurs can sell to customers online for local printing at the end use location. No factory …
“Oh shit…” you’re thinking. 400 people on a cruise ship have it, at least 80,000 thousand people worldwide have it…what will become of the world, right? Well, it’s going to change. Bigly and fastly. The world has become dependent on long supply lines – and to our own detriment. But, before you get too depressed about it, remember that we were headed down the crapper anyway. That’s because the Four Horsemen of Apocalypse include (presently) …
A “Fax Machine of Things?” Who’d believe it? Yet it is easily within reach. ISYN. I wanted to add a bit more to the Ultra-Make website about this whole e-mailing to things concept which, I have to admit, fascinates the hell out of me. In the ideal configuration, there would be one to three online machines. Obviously, most products would have a 3D printer aspect. And since the present printers are in the $200 range for …