[p2p-research] Fwd: CubeSpawn project

[Michel Bauwens]

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From: Data Pathway <data.pathway at gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 1:06 AM
Subject: CubeSpawn project
To: James Jones <data.pathway at gmail.com>


Hi,
This is to everyone that registered at CubeSpawn's website, and all the
other interested parties.

Many Recent Developments:
I have about $3500 to put into getting a finished CNC Cell completed.

some of you know I was in the top 100 projects in the "Pepsi Refresh
Everything" grant contest, so they re-enrolled me for march
while it is a small pain in the butt, voting everyday COULD get CubeSpawn
$25,000 do get some professional designs done -
http://www.refresheverything.com/cubespawn1

Meanwhile, there are 3 other cubes "spawning" in the wild...
A UV potting cell in Annapolis, MD
A "Swiss" style turning center in London, UK
A thermoforming trimout line in Texarkana, TX

the 4th is a 3 axis CNC mill in San Antonio, TX (my prototype)

There may be one shaping up in Germany, not totally clear on that yet,
also a brief message from a Hackerspace in Ohio, indicating they
are going to build a MakerBlock ;-) (makerbot, repstrap cube)

So at the moment the future looks bright, The project is roughly 6 months
old with six potential projects ongoing :-)

You may  (or may not) know about all the info on the project, the website is
perpetually incomplete, so here are some links:

the Site (of course!)
http://www.cubespawn.com

Photo's
http://picasaweb.google.com/Data.Pathway/Cubespawn#
http://picasaweb.google.com/Data.Pathway/CubePics#

Manuals (work in progress)
http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0Ac1zmsAw8z8pZGZjcDdrOG1fMjBxdjQ1dGpuOA&hl=en

Models
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/search?uq=02990863054875985722&scoring=m

Mentions:
Fabbaloo http://fabbaloo.com/blog/2010/1/25/cubespawn.html
Shapeways
http://www.shapeways.com/blog/archives/366-Love-open-source-and-personal-manufacturing-Support-Cube-Spawn!.html
Edge of Tomarrow
http://edgeoftomorrow.wordpress.com/2010/02/03/cubespawn-open-source-personal-factories/
The Makers Workbench http://themakersworkbench.com/?q=node/234
OpenBusiness http://www.openbusiness.cc/2010/01/05/cubespawn/

And of course, if you google "cubespawn" its over 8500 listings now - this
was around 300 last september ;)

James



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