Google garage workshops and tech replants its roots

Mountain view, Calif. — any food free, accrue in working on Google Inc., "there's a lot of people don t have to know even: a collection of workshops and high-tech that Eden tinkerer 's. Marcio Jose Sanchez, AP

On April 12, 2011, this space workshop created for Google seems mountain, Calif.

Marcio Jose Sanchez, AP

On April 12, 2011, this space workshop created for Google seems mountain, Calif.

Work on their computer screens, which chairs the Ministry to the traces, branch, and the expensive machines, they won t find the Home Depot. Besides building contraptions with a clear business purpose, Google employees use shops for fun: they create the holiday decorations, elaborate woodwork for them in homes and sometimes the dream as big as engineers working on the rickshaw with a wingspan of 100-ft. Google Workshops are ??????? of Larry page, who founded Google with Sergey Brin rented garage. Authorized workshops page opened 2007 to attempt to connect the company with its roots.Google, which saved the participants confidential until Tuesday, the associated press gave an exclusive tour of shortly after the page takes up the role of the original General Manager on April 4, ???????? offer a glimpse into the ways to make the page to try to work with energy and creativity on the Internet giant's entrepreneur Association of garage. The company believes a 13 page, you need to start thinking and acting like a luhmanit facing competition with younger Internet stars such as Facebook, Twitter, There is a feeling Groupon. here at Google, that all the good things in the garage, said Greg Butterfield, engineering lab manager that monitors the workshops. Larry wanted to create the same kind of environment they started and Sergey from Google a playground sandbox or their ideas I Originally called Pi., a geeky shop is open only to very few privileges among Google's 26,300 workers. To get a value, employees must pass the test includes questions such as When you saw the band, what speed use to cut aluminium? There are four separate rooms for metal, wood, welding, electronics situated in an isolated corner of Google's 4.3 million-square-foot headquarters equipment Besides the Mountain View performance., cutter, plasma total oscilloscope miter saw, there's also a children s toys. One piece of gadgetry is now under construction in complex material that partly Legos this page previously were used to build an inkjet printer, years before creating The Google projects have emerged from the workshops. include giant tricycle that was designed to ????? around 250 kilograms of high-tech equipment. Trikes are used to provide the online mapping service company s with other streets and areas that are inaccessible by cars also used the shops. engineers to work on an early prototype of smartphones running Google's Android software, other products still under development, which the company refused to discuss the Google staff., Use, store personal purposes. Ideas percolating in workshops are so unpredictable employees are asked to drop leftover metal or other detritus in the project may fit the Junk someone s. During a recent visit to the AP 's, a pair of old axles, wheel tailgate rust off from weld shop. You were never know what you're going to find here, said Butterfield. you may only place Google isn t in Silicon Valley where the encoding computer engineers can show off their industry. A project called TechShops selling memberships from $ 100 per month for use in radar-machinery heavy wood, metal, plastic and textiles. Besides the San Francisco Bay area, which also operates TechShops, free workshops for all staff, N.C.Google s, like almost all perquisites company s. But the workshops are exclusive to much more than Google's and other benefits must be qualified personnel to operate the machines before they are issued a tag to enter. Screening falls usually lrodni Broome, 63, a veteran who teaches machinist craft near the San Jose City College when isn t is as busy as foreman of Google's I feel like workshops. I run my own company within the company, said Broome. just as they do when they try to get hired at GoogleEmployees need to undergo a test,. About 300 employees of Google have confirmed so far. Most of them engineers, although few have tags that work in sales.Broome said there were no injuries in the workshops so far. strict screening so their college studies mechanical engineering wasn t enough for the software engineer Google Ihab Awad. He attended a local school division living wood for a semester before high s earn elimination Broome s. Awad also won approval for equipment for Broome's welding. the greatest achievement in his so far: bar in the form of missiles equipped with keg to pour a beer at the end of a long day in The office are the overlap of the No. 1 mine on Google, Awad said the break from welding. The main reason I Googler for They re life.

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