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9th grade student Sidharta “Sid” Vadaparty was dissatisfied with the accelerometer available in his high school physics class. He decided to make his own “portable, affordable and mod-able” version. With his bright mind, supportive father and a little help from NextFab, the open source Kinemeter was born. Here we profile Sid and his exciting new […]
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NextFab’s Electronics Supervisor, Matt Garfield, had a brilliant idea for a holiday gift. While working on a contract project, he had explored inductive coupling for wireless power transfer. It wasn’t the right fit for the project, but it got his gears turning, and as the holiday season rolled around, he found a wonderful application for […]
What brought corporate executive Vanessa Chan out of the corporate world and into NextFab? She claims that it was her inner tinkerer and love for jewelry design, but this highly creative maker with a Ph.D. in Material Sciences and Engineering takes tinkering to another level. Chan’s ability to fuse her tech engineering chops with her […]
NextFab recently completed a project for the University City Science Center for their renovation of the 37th St. Walkway between Chestnut and Market Streets. The project consisted of multi-use game tables, with tops suitable for chess or backgammon. As a year round fixture of the outdoor parklet, the tables had to be robust enough to […]
The Introduction to Jewelry Making class at NextFab’s North Fourth location teaches the fundamentals of jewelry making and supports the Philadelphia Animal Welfare Society. Sign up for a class and see why the Jewelry shop at North Fourth is such a gem! Class Fundamentals Working at a small scale presents a unique set of challenges. […]
If you haven’t been in to NextFab or if you haven’t been to NextFab’s North 4th Street location or if you are just looking for something fun to do in the fall and winter months, check out the Open Studio Night series at North Fourth! NextFab North Fourth is NextFab’s newest location, a 4,000 square […]
Shemar Coombs took an entrepeneurship class in his senior year of high school. This brought him through the doors at NextFab and eventually to New York City for the national 2015 Network for Teaching Entrepeneurship Challenge semi-finals. The entrepeneurship class was supported by The Network For Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE). The NFTE was established to “inspire […]
Most people think of Corian, a DuPont product, as a solid surface countertop solution – intended for kitchens and office desktops. But Corian is an amazingly versatile material that can be used for a broad range of applications. Our pro fabricators at NextFab have been innovating with Corian for quite some time now, and they’re […]
Theatrical Debut September 16th marked the opening of a solo exhibit of my photography in Santa Fe, NM. The photography on display was photographed between 2009 and 2015 and representative of my travels to Haiti, Africa, India, Nepal, Tibet and throughout the United States during that time period. While my cinematic work had been shown […]
In the Summer of 2015, an intern named Wei Zhen Li joined the young team of engineers and project managers working at a little startup called ConnectDER. It’s unusual for a summer intern to have a lasting impact on a company, particularly one that’s working at a break-neck speed to affect the course of America’s […]
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