<div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px"><span class="inbox-inbox-lG" style="background-color:rgba(251,246,167,0.5);outline:transparent dashed 1px">Exciting</span> news: This time Mike Zhao, our contract manufacturing expert, is going <span class="inbox-inbox-lG" style="background-color:rgba(251,246,167,0.5);outline:transparent dashed 1px">to </span>come for the Q&A in person! You can read more about him and the contract manufacturing process here: <a href="https://medium.com/supplyframe-hardware/shanghais-contract-manufacturing-a-factory-visit-7fc800cce411" target="_blank">https://medium.com/supplyframe-hardware/shanghais-contract-manufacturing-a-factory-visit-7fc800cce411</a></div><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px"><b>Note that due <span class="inbox-inbox-lG" style="background-color:rgba(251,246,167,0.5);outline:transparent dashed 1px">to</span> Meetup.com fees we are increasing the price <span class="inbox-inbox-lG" style="background-color:rgba(251,246,167,0.5);outline:transparent dashed 1px">to</span> $85, but we will honor the previous price of $75 until Sunday October 7th.</b></div><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px"><span id="inbox-inbox-docs-internal-guid-3382b847-7fff-1ff8-4648-ff0f5069cc91"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">-------</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Are you manufacturing something with plastic? How much do you expect to pay for your molds? $10,000? Maybe even $100,000? If you are a startup and don't have the capital or the volumes to justify expensive plastic molds, manufacturing out of sheet acrylic might be the answer for you.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Myself (Ruth) and Rik are running a sheet acrylic manufacturing workshop. We make the whole process accessible, from teaching joints/cutting/bending to sharing local prototyping contacts and hosting a 30 minute Q&A with a Chinese contract manufacturer. </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The workshop is from 9:30AM to 12:30PM on Oct 20th at the Noisebridge Hackerspace, and costs $85</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">: </span><a href="http://meetu.ps/e/FRckd/qrLmq/f" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://meetu.ps/e/FRckd/qrLmq/f</span></a></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Feel free to contact me at <a href="mailto:ruthgracewong@gmail.com">ruthgracewong@gmail.com</a> if you have any questions</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Best,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Ruth</span></p></span><br class="inbox-inbox-Apple-interchange-newline"></div></div>