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). "

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I'll finally be able to finish my ...

[burgburgburg]

oscillation overthruster and get off this rock full of monkeyboys.

Home... home is where you wear your hat... I feel so breakup, I wanna go home. Barney, I'm going home... with my overthruster. History is-a made at night. Character is what you are in the dark.

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[nacturation]

I was expecting an article about real-life stories of how people are merging the two services to deliver custom electronics hardware to others. That would have been really great to read up on how entrepreneurs really are building viable businesses. Instead, it's just about how the writer tried out a couple of random parts, and that's it.

Now the cynic in me says that this is a rewritten duplicate article from a paid advertiser... not even the PC Magazine reference changed at all. Perhaps the story didn't do so well since it was posted on a Friday evening, so they try again during the middle of the week. Also, normally mentions of duplicates are modded up as informative but every single instance here has been modded down into oblivion. Sort of suspicious if you ask me. We'll see if this post gets mod-bombed down.