Ponoko Arriva in Italia
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Distributed manufacturing platform Ponoko has announced they've got a new manufacturing hub: London, UK-based RazorLAB. This adds to their already established empire of hubs including New Zealand, San Francisco, Milan and Berlin. What does it mean? Greatly decreased shipping costs for makers using Ponoko's services. In fact, Ponoko has actually been subsidizing shipments to the UK until now to remain competitive.
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As we suspected a short while ago, Ponoko has announced a new build location in Europe. The new hub will be located in Berlin, and joins the existing build hubs in San Francisco and New Zealand.
This development means European makers or consumers will have significantly less shipping costs when using Ponoko:
For example the cost of shipping a P1 size of 3mm thick plastic sheet of material to anywhere in Germany will plummet by about 85% to around just US$9, while places like Amsterdam and Paris will reduce by around three-quarters to about US$16!
There's a slight catch, however. It turns out that Ponoko did not actually build the hub themselves - they've simply partnered with an existing fabrication operation:Formulor. According to Ponoko:
Formulor is 100% independent of Ponoko. This means the pricing is different, the materials catalog is different, and the business terms are different. And in this case, your package of goodies will be delivered from Formulor, not Ponoko.
Yes, it's not quite the same, but the results will no doubt be very similar and of course at less cost. Great move, Ponoko!
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Wednesday, December 30, 2009 |
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It may be snowing…. but some bright rays are on their way.
Or do we?
Perhaps the summer-soaked New Zealanders are merely having pity on the wintery Europeans in the northern hemisphere.
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Tuesday, December 1, 2009 |
Share Article One of the interesting twists to Ponoko's wide range of services is the ability to request a design. That's right, if you don't know how to design something, you can punch in a description of the desired object, post it on Ponoko and (hopefully) some inventive maker will stumble across your request and make it for you.
To see the list, simply sign on to Ponoko's site (you *do* have an id there, don't you?) and hit this link. As of this writing, we see some USD$155,000 in items requested. The largest item is for a lamp clasp at USD$75,000 for 1,000 units. These prices might even be low, as the requester merely specifies the "ideal price per unit".
We're wondering if Fabbaloo readers with design skills are aware they might be able to pull in some extra cash for their ZCorp or Objet 3D printer savings fund by knocking off some of these requests.
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Wednesday, September 23, 2009 |
Share Article The idea is that designers (or shoppers) on Ponoko who find a great design now have the option of having the item built locally by any one of (eventually) 100,000 garages equipped with ShopBot tooling.
We think this is a great idea, because it not only reinforces the green idea of "doing things locally", it also takes some pressure off of Ponoko's ultra-busy manufacturing facilities. It makes sense: Ponoko has a storehouse of designs and a broad audience of shoppers, while ShopBot has thousands of their machines deployed worldwide, waiting to build stuff. 100KGarages simply puts the two together.
The view from the CEOs explains this clearly.
Ponoko's making system gives our ShopBot owners the ability to receive a new stream of work from a wide range of customers. Our partnership also means everyone now has easy access to their own local 3D fabricator. This is the first step to providing a solution for the doers and makers out there who want to join in re-building America, one garage at a time.
Our online making system makes it easier than ever before to turn ideas into real things, and by partnering with ShopBot we bring together more than 20,000 creators and over 6,000 fabricators to use a powerful online service to design, make and deliver goods locally.
It may sound a bit complicated at first but our idea is to be as open and unconstrained as possible, while also making it possible to get stuff done easily. We don't want to force fabricators or designers into a particular framework and will allow each a range of options for participation. We expect that the system and methods here will continuously evolve as we learn about what works best. There will be opportunities for feedback and interaction in the forums and we encourage everyone to participate.
Via 100KGarages (Hat tip to Olga)
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