ponoko's 'photomake' turns hand drawings into real life things

first draw your design on paper with a felt tip pen

ponoko is 'the world's first personal manufacturing platform.’ the site enables users to make, share,
sell and buy products that are digitally manufactured based on designs by users. the one caveat was
that anyone wishing to design something needed to use design software in order to make their product
with ponoko. a new service offered on the site now opens up their service to anyone with a pen, paper
and digital camera. ‘photomake’ allows its users to submit designs they simply drew on paper and
transform them into real products. the unusual thing about the products created in ‘photomake’ is that
every minor detail from the hand drawing is picked up by the machine and visible in the final product.
more sophisticated users can even turn their jpg, gif or png files into products. plus, ‘photomake’
users can not only make their own design themselves, they can also sell it to other users on the
ponoko storefront.

http://www.ponoko.com

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take a picture of your drawing with your digital camera


upload your image to the site and send it off to be made


your design will be manufactured from your original drawing


receive your complete design in the mail