People — including investors — are learning that access trumps ownership. When you think about it, do you want to own a saw, or do you want a board cut or carved? Do you want the drill, or the hole the drill can create? Call it Collaborative Consumption, The Mesh, or The Sharing
A relatively modest release with just under 20 fixes and improvements. We had originally planned to add emailed receipts for when users check items in and out, but have pushed that back to the next release. Bugs Fixed [LEND-550] – Editing a user resets/deletes their year of birth [LEND-555] –
What started as a “quick fixes” release, turned into a release with over 40 new features, improvements, and bug fixes. The full list is below. We’re already hard at work on the next release — not to mention at updating the main Local Tools site. New Features [LEND-490] –
Welcome to our first roundup of recent links showing some of the great things going on in the making, sharing and collaborative consumption spaces: MAKE Magazine is holding their first annual “Industry Maker Awards” a.k.a. The Makeys. You can see who has been nominated and vote for your favorites! We love
Popular Mechanics has stories of how the DIY and Maker community are changing the world (and we think for the better), and here at Local Tools we’re helping them do it: “By repairing old bikes to donate them to the needy, creating a local tool library, turning abandoned land
A short, but excellent TED talk from Marcin Jakubowski of the Open Source Ecology introduces the “Global Village Construction Set”. What are the 50 tools that are needed to start a civilization? Can they be made by “normal people” so that they are affordable, efficient, robust and and can last
The West Seattle Tool Library launched their new tool sharing/lending library using Local Tools on June 12th (check out their inventory online). The LocalTools.org tool library management system allows administrators to easily manage inventory, check tools in and out, and let the community know what tools are available to borrow.
A trivet is a quick and easy project that can be used either in the kitchen or as part of a more formal setting in the dining room, depending on your needs. The project can be easily built from start to finish in a weekend (indeed in a day if