About
An old school garage style startup, Purple Crayon is a new company dedicated to developing and selling consumer personal fabrication technologies. At its core the idea of personal fabrication is to provide anyone the ability to “make stuff” regardless of skills or knowledge. The idea is similar to modern desktop printers, which make it possible for anyone to produce high quality printed material with absolutely no idea how the printer works. Personal fabrication technologies will have an impact on the same scale of the industrial revolution – enabling anyone with a vision to build it, or share with others to build or modify a version of their own.
The first step on the road to consumer personal fabrication devices is making 3D scanners, printers, and milling machines cheap, popular, and easy to use; so that’s what we’re going to do. Purple Crayon’s first products will be a combination computer controlled milling machines and scanner, designed for use in the home. Keep checking this web site for information on buying one of these units, which will go on sale in April or May of 2009 for under $1,000. We will be using this blog to track our progress and post links of interest on personal fabrication technology – so check back often.