Stanford's Mechanical Engineering department's Product Realization Laboratory

Posted by cwan on Friday January 07, 2011 @10:47AM
from the stanforddaily.com dept.

http://www.stanforddaily.com/2011/01/07/building-it-bigger-design-comes-to-life-at-the-prl/

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Re:Stanford's Mechanical Engineering department's Product Re... by dskhatri on Friday January 07, 2011 @12:55PM (#2080307)

If you are in Los Angeles, there are several affordable machine shops here. I'll be taking the Venice Machine Shop class starting next Monday (http://venicemachine.com/). For only $55, you get 6 hours of machine shop access for 3 months! El Camino College has a more modern machine shop with all sorts of cool prototyping machines but the classes are on weekday mornings (http://southbaymachine.com/). Machine shops in other parts of our fair & sprawling region are listed here: http://venicemachine.com/expandedinfo/machineshopclasses.htm

There are also Fab Labs around the world: http://fab.cba.mit.edu/about/labs/

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Re:Stanford's Mechanical Engineering department's Product Re... by hrq on Friday January 07, 2011 @01:21PM (#2080450)

Anything like this in Boston that people know about?

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Re:Stanford's Mechanical Engineering department's Product Re... by dskhatri on Friday January 07, 2011 @01:45PM (#2080573)

It appears there is an Open Access Fab Lab at the South End Technology Center in Boston (http://www.tech-center-enlightentcity.tv/)

MIT students have access to several shops such as the Edgerton Center Shop: http://web.mit.edu/Edgerton/www/Shop.html. Others are described here: http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/learning/libraries_facil...

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Re:Stanford's Mechanical Engineering department's Product Re... by madh on Friday January 07, 2011 @01:47PM (#2080583)

“Engineers and designers are much more powerful if they have built things."

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