November 5, 2007 3:59 AM PST
At TechShop, a Menlo Park, Calif., business that invites the public to come and use a wide variety of personal-fabrication machines and tools, a piece of bread has gone through a laser-etching machine. TechShop has been such a success in Silicon Valley that it is franchising to 10 additional cities around the United States--8 in the first round and 2 later on. Each will follow TechShop's system for providing the public with the tools, space, and community with which to build all kinds of projects.
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