only very few companies give an insight into their design and manufacturing processes. maybe this is for secrecy or from ignorance or shame – in any case when someone goes to the trouble to showcase how they make things, it’s pretty neat. hopefully the ease with which we can video- and photo-document nowadays will make it more popular to divulge trade secrets as a form of marketing. this is a slideshow of the process of prototyping designing and implementing manufacturing of a pinball machine, by the way, via make. i especially like how the designer, pat lawlor, signs the underside of the machine just before it ships.
