Following on from MAKEwithMOTO, which Mike covered back in July, the concept is evolving further. The MAKEwithMOTO concept is a couple of months into a road trip with some hi-tech making gear, includi…
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Silicon Valley Missing a Local Trick?
The blossoming of the 3D printing industry has brought a whole series of businesses into full bloom, one of which is the field of product development and prototyping. But, Silicon Valley, where busine…
Executive Interview — Mitch Ackmann
Mitch Ackmann is the President of up-and-coming US 3D printer company Afinia, and also holds the same position for Afinia’s parent company Microboards based in Minnesota. With a background in electron…
Microfactory + FABtotum = The Rise of Hybrid ∞ Manufacturing
Most in the 3D printing community know that 3D printing is only the beginning, that additive manufacturing is only a component in something more to come. A patent filed by iRobot earlier this year fo…
Michigan Tech Study Says: “The RepRap is an economically attractive investment for the average U.S. household already”
For those of you who are still unsure of whether or not home 3D printing will take off, here’s a study, originally published in Mechatronics, that uses a lot of academic language to say that it will. …
A Peek into GE’s Additive Manufacturing Lab with Prabhjot Singh and Joris Peels
Joris Peels at VoxelFab recently conducted an interview with the manager of the GE Additive Manufacturing Lab at GE Global Research, Prabhjot Singh. The interview, complete with Joris-style analysis, …
Most Read Articles from Last Week – July 27
First 3D Printing Experiences: Cube vs. Makerbot At the end of June, I relayed the frustrated experiences of one 3D printing novice from Geek Dad who, in spite of the miracle of 3D printing an object …
Most Read Articles from Last Week – June 29
It’s a BIG Deal — Stratasys & Makerbot So, after the initial leak following an investor meeting a couple of weeks ago, which was followed by numerous rumours and rather a lot of speculation (ours …
AM — The Voxel Method (Part II)
Issues and Challenges in R&D In my previous article I introduced the novel Voxel method of 3D printing, which is still very much in its infancy. As a result, the embryonic work in this area faces …
W. Afate: Recycling 1st World Waste into New World Solutions
The cost of technological progress is that, with each exponential leap of Moore’s Law, obsolete machinery is cast away as garbage. And, because discarded electronics often contain harmful components …