CBI Wins Prize!

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Cumberland Business Incubator receives $50,000 prize to create Tinker Space

The Cumberland Business Incubator, located on Roane State Community College’s Cumberland County campus, has received a $50,000 prize to create a space where entrepreneurs can turn their ideas into working prototypes.

The incubator was one of 50 organizations nationwide to receive a prize through the U.S. Small Business Administration’s Growth Accelerator Fund competition. Continue reading

Labville

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Labville is a makerspace devoted to the practice of leveraging technology and techniques to build things both real and virtual with a sense of community, collaboration, inventiveness, humor and wonder.

Join the community here and mark your calendar for the 2nd Wednesday of every month from 5:30-7:00PM for a Labville Makerspace project or a guest presenter hosted at the CBI!

It’s a New Day for Hardware Development with 3D Printing

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Hardware development has had issues in the past.  The costs were high for tooling, revisions, testing, labor and materials.  It wasn’t always easy to find someone to produce a small number of pilot parts, and once you found someone, they might not have been able to produce production quantities to quality specifications, so there was a new search for production manufacturing facilities. Continue reading