We are offering our unique Extreme Manufacturing Workshops where you can build our 3D Printer in one day.

The Extreme Build Workshop is a unique experience. We are pushing the limits of social production towards advanced productivity on a small scale. Our work is an experiment: can local, appropriate technology production replace centralized production? We believe that centralized production cannot compete with open source. Our XM workshops are our test bed: can we build high quality products with distributed quality control? Can we scale this model so that the open source microfactory is the new engine of production?

Our goal is to show that the Extreme Build model is scalable – to large and complex technologies, and to unlimited participation where people can build complex products efficiently. Specifically with the 3D printer – we aim to demonstrate that we can not only build 12 printers in a single day – but 24 – or 100 – or 1000 – limited only by the facilities that we have at our disposal – but not limited by knowledge transfer or quality control. The future of the open source microfactory and distributed production revolves around open source hardware, simple design, appropriate automation, and distributed quality control. Fast, quality, and cheap.