Bryan Bishop

Austin Fab Lab?

Bryan, Les, Ben, and Dave are building an open source fab lab in Austin - the Austin Fab Lab.

Their business model is renting work space to people.

Cast of Characters

Bryan Bishop - http://openmanufacturing.net/ - interest in self-replication; ME student at UT Austin

Les Philip - lfilip@mac.com - pumped and energetic - interested in making it economically feasible - coop model - renting space to people. Is a woodworker. Educated in electrical engineering.

Ben Lipkowitz - installing electronics for Austin Fab Lab, moved from Indiana on Wednesday

Sam Rose - in there

Dave Rauchwerk - elevenarms@gmail.com - Unpatent - project management system for hardware, more into software and manufacturing automation with 6-axis robot - 1/2000 accuracy

Inventory List - [1] - Austin Fab Lab

Mechmate - OS xy table

SKDB - part mating, cad file system, instruction, packaging

Dave Pinhave - of Ponoko - suggested packaging software

Parametric description -

Wrapper for GNU units

YAML files for fab lab inventories

Automated Design Lab