Santa Cruz Tech Beat article, May 19th, 2015

Access to the Tools of Science Fiction

By Paige Welsh
Contributor, Santa Cruz Tech Beat

Idea Fab Labs comes to Santa Cruz to give makers the tools of the future

Have you ever needed a pair of pliers to pull out a memory card from a 3-D printer, and then used that same 3-D printer to print out the pliers? The founder of Idea Fab Labs, Erin Banwell, has. This June, he and one of his business partners, Shannon Stillman, are bringing two 3-D printers, a 3-D scanner, a laser-cutter, a CNC mill, a full metal shop and woodshop, and more to the new Idea Fab Labs branch in Santa Cruz, located in the old Wrigley Building at 2879 Mission Street…

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