Thanks to the Make blog for alerting me to Ponoko; a site for sharing and selling product designs as well as enabling their fabrication via laser cutting. It’s quite new, so their aim to deliver laser cut parts anywhere in the world is yet to be developed. But their aim is for designers to be able to sell their ideas worldwide and customers to be able to buy designs and have them made locally wherever they are.

A nice idea well executed; there’s an opportunity for pupils to sell their designs across the world - and it could be a great opportunity for schools with laser cutters to make some money as an accredited Ponoko manufacturer.

Incidentally, I can’t prasie Make magazine highly enough; every D&T department should have a subscription….

Torben

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