From Your PC to Reality in 3 Easy Steps

aelbric writes "PC Magazine is running an on some entrepreneurial businesses that are taking an interesting approach to prototyping and one-off manufacturing. Apparently, you can send in schematics for circuit boards to Pad2Pad, where they will quote, build and ship you a part based on your exact specifications. There is also reference to eMachineShop, for those of you more mechanically inclined, for building some home projects. Design the part on your PC, send it to the shop electronically, recieve custom built component(s). "

Comments

not what I expected

[kippy]

I was thinking it was going to be something like this:

1. Turn off PC
2. Climb stairs out of basement
3. Go out into sunlight

Re:not what I expected

[Kurt Gray]

Why? What's out there? Wireless access?

Re:not what I expected

[gyrojoe]

4. Sneeze (see the poll)

cool!

[WormholeFiend]

Now I get to have my very own Kelly LeBrock!

Now all I need is a bra to wear on my head.

Damn

[hellfire]

I thought this was an article about the new wave in pr0n. I'm so disappointed now.

You have to start slowly.

[oneiros27]

Do it at night, when there's no sunlight --it makes the transition much easier.

And when you hear birds chirping, find cover -- it's a sign that the sun's going to come back up.

Re:Killotron 5000

[wfberg]

Did you know that your local grocery store carries everything you need to make WMDs? Its absolutley true! Chlorine bleach and ammonia, they mix into an extremely poisonous gas.

Cool, I guess I'm not the only one who takes those "do not mix" symbols on the packaging of household cleaning products as hints, rather than warnings.

Hank Spim, Slash Developer

[Ethelred Unraed]

Witness Taco's flippant 'ohwellweeventuallyfigureditout' journal on the recent 503 crap.

Link for your convenience.

I'd say it's inappropriate to have people (paying subscribers, even) have their entire subnet get knocked off Slashdot, just because of three downmods in 24 hours. (Then have an impertinent "meh, wait out the ban period" as the response.)

Hmm...kinda like shooting mosquitos with bazookas.

HANK
Well, I've been a Slash developer all my life. I love Slashdotters. That's why I like to kill 'em. I wouldn't kill an Slashdotter I didn't like. Goodday Roy.

Pull back to reveal he is walking with his brother in fairly rough server farm. They pull a small trailer with 'high explosives' written in large letters on the side. The trailer has modbombs in it. Hank takes a bazooka from the trailer.

VOICEOVER
Hank and Roy Spim are tough, fearless Slash developers who have chosen to live in a violent, unrelenting world of nature's creatures, where only the fittest survive. Today they are off to hunt Slashdotters.

Big close-up Roy Spim. He is obviously searching for something.

ROY (voice over)
The Slashdotter's a clever little bastard. You can mod him for days and days until you really get to know him like a friend. He knows you're there, and you know he's there. It's a game of wits. You hate him, then you respect him, then you kill him.

...

Just a little humor to save the day!

Cheers,

Ethelred (a fellow subscriber)