As this Labor Day approacheth, what better appliance better to consider purchasing than a 3D printer, which saves you countless labor hours in constructing your own goods? A somewhat sloppy introducti…
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Crowdfunding & The Low-Cost Desktop 3D Printer: A Suicidal Race To The Bottom? (Part 7)
Maybe Crowdfunding through Kickstarter — the dominant player — is a successful strategic mode for a reasonable percentage of the more or less 200 low-cost, desktop, 3D printer companies now in our 3DP…
Crowdfunding & The Low-Cost Desktop 3D Printer: A Suicidal Race To The Bottom? (Part 6)
In Part 5, we left Kickstarterwith a problem from the “funding success” of too many YowzaPrinters (see Part 3 for my definition)—but with “yikes!” results, post the funding milestone. KS has bec…
Crowdfunding & The Low-Cost Desktop 3D Printer: A Suicidal Race To The Bottom? (Part 5)
In the last four years, the 3D Printing, Additive Manufacturing and/or Digital Fabrication sector (collectively: “3DP”) has nearly tripled in size. In 2013, expansion reached nearly 35 percent. With u…
Crowdfunding & The Low-Cost Desktop 3D Printer: A Suicidal Race To The Bottom? (Part 4)
Welcome back — for Part 4 of our series on Crowdfunding, 3D-printer ‘Preneurs and suicidal gaming of the new 3DP/startup/mob-VC “ecosystem.” Here’s a quick recap (with direct links back to previous “…
3D Printed Skateboard Mounting System RACKITx Launches on Kickstarter
The RACKITx is a simple 3D printed fixture that allows you to get your skateboards, surfboards, snowboards and wakeboards off the floor and hang them on your walls, either as decoration or as a storag…
Crowdfunding & The Low-Cost Desktop 3D Printer: A Suicidal Race To The Bottom? (Part 3)
Part 1 of this series presented an introductory overview of crowd funding vis a vis 3D printer startups and the dynamism, democratization, distortions and dangers that this new and novel mode of bankr…
Crowdfunding & The Low-Cost Desktop 3D Printer: A Suicidal Race To The Bottom? (Part 2)
Part 1 of this series presented an introductory view of crowdfunding vis a vis 3D printer start-ups and the dynamism, democratization, distortions and dangers this new and novel mode of bankrolling fo…
Crowdfunding & The Low-Cost Desktop 3D Printer: A Suicidal Race To The Bottom? (Part 1)
Could the democratization of tech-based entrepreneurship be both a boon and a bane? Our Four (STEAM-driven) Disruptors (the PC, the Internet, Social Media and 3D printing) have certainly assured that …
Familiar Branding & Resurfacing Issues with the iBox Nano 3D Printer on KS
A new 3D printer Kickstarter campaign went live yesterday. Hardly headline material, but this particular campaign marks a reoccurrence of some issues highlighted by Land Grant, in his excellent series…