GE Garages - I wish there had been some advance P-R about this. I didn’t learn of the event until the tents had folded and they were headed out of town.
Located right on the edge of Rice University, by the school's football stadium, GE set up shop with three main attractions. The main event? Shipping containers transformed into a manufacturing site with everything from a laser cutter to a 3D printer to a molding machine.
Originally introduced in Austin at SXSW, these garages hit the road to educate and have teamed up with major companies — Quirky, TechShop, Skillshare and Autodesk. The two-week pit-stop in Houston just ended. Up next: San Francisco.
GE's aim is to bring technology enthusiasts together and excite the local community to learn about the latest, cutting-edge equipment that's shaping the future of manufacturing and design. The company also wants to promote and celebrate inventors, entrepreneurs or any aspiring builder who wants to dive into innovation.
I would have been particularly excited to see the Makerbot 3D printer. Primarily used for rapid prototyping and the creation of plastic objects from CAD (computer-aided design) files.
"You just insert an SD card on the side of the printer and the downloaded file will blow up from the ground up with ABS plastic," according to tour guide Cassandra Castaneda. In the picture, you can see a Pokemon Pikachu in the process of coming to life.
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