Jim McKelvey created a prototype for the multi-billion dollar credit card processor called Square at TechShop.
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But since putting the word out, TechShop has received 1, 400 e-mails from aspiring franchisees.
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In its second year TechShop has accumulated 400 members, including six small businesses that operate from there.
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If an employee builds a patentable product at TechShop, then they are awarded a three-month membership for free.
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TechShop strays from the list only when confronted with a compelling partnership opportunity, as in Detroit (Ford), Washington D.
Many of them are already doing it (partly why makerspaces and innovative models like TechShop are growing, too).
TechShop, in Menlo Park, California, rents tinkering space and equipment to amateur inventors.
Maker and hackerspaces, places like TechShop, Metrix:CreateSpace (in Seattle), and many other co-working spaces are fueling this exchange.
If you walk into any of the TechShop locations, you will see a group of inventors building great things.
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Ford Global Technologies enhanced their Employee Patent Incentive Award program for workers at TechShop that have built a patentable product.
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The real action at techshop in Menlo Park, Calif. is a few rooms in the rear of a 15, 000-square-foot warehouse.
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They could invest a chunk into TechShop and create one of these amazing makerspaces in every major city in America.
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TechShop is the nation's first full-service gym for the tinkering crowd, and James Newton, its 45-year-old founder, is their Jack LaLanne.
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The partners for such a vision are already out there Maker Faire, TechShop, the D-Lab, Fab Lab, Lemelson-MITInvenTeams, FIRST robotics, Startup Weekend and more.
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Rapid Prototyping technologies like 3D printers, laser cutters, and shared workspaces like TechShop are democratizing innovation in the physical world of atoms.
The final tally of equipment, which included an industrial sewing machine and a plasma cutter, became the definitive inventory list for TechShop, a 15, 000 square-foot tinkerer Toyland.
When entering the 38, 000 square-foot TechShop Detroit location, Brick told me that the facility was a collaborative effort between Ford Motor Company and TechShop to promote creative energy and innovation.
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Detroit is now home to an outpost of TechShop, the Silicon Valley innovation incubator where people of all skill levels can use industrial tools and equipment to build their own products.
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There's a wooden book that unfolds into a desk lamp and a polymer incubation blanket for infants that's "on track to save 100, 000 children's lives, " according to Hatch, TechShop's spikey-white-haired CEO.
During a recent visit to the City by the Bay, we popped into the TechShop hackerspace and were introduced to Max Gunawan, the designer behind Lumio (not to be confused with a certain smartphone line of similar name).
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We've got conversations with Google's Tamar Yehoshua, OUYA's Julie Uhrman, Jason Parrish and Corinna Proctor from Lenovo, Chris Anderson, DJ Spooky, Mark Frauenfelder, Veronica Belmont, Ryan Block, plus folks from NASA, 3D Robotics, Oculus, Google Lunar X Prize, TechShop, Lunar and IndieGogo.
TechShop's overseers have, quite cannily, begun to offer up a portion of the warehouse's 17, 000 square feet as office space, giving its members a shot at some prime San Francisco real estate, a flight of stairs up from an impressive array of machine tools -- laser cutters, water jets and more 3D printers than most mortals have seen in one place.
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