Here at 3DPrint.com we attend numerous events each year at which I have personally been able to meet many extraordinary people within the industry, witness some of the most advanced technology on the market, and...
The future is small, but strong for film. After reading more about ADOX, and how they make their film now, I have to say I am really impressed. They made the downsized gracefully. They believe in...
A company that intends to build and sell the world's first 3D-printed cars plans to open its first East Coast micro-factory and showroom in Maryland at National Harbor near Washington.
The potential for individuals to create, design and manufacture products themselves continues to be realized every day all around the country. With the affordability of robust digital fabrication tools such as the ShopBot Desktop, running a micro-factory out of handy space is not a dream, but reality. We thought we’d share one example, Ryan Patterson’s MyHue product, and provide an overview of its production. Ryan is ShopBot’s Head of Production Support.
You’ve probably heard of 3d printing and all the amazing things it can do by now, but do you know the story of the guy who almost single handedly put it on the map? His name is Neil Gershenfeld, and he did not invent the 3d printer. In fact, he’s not an inventor at all, he’s a professor at MIT, and you need to hear his story.
Shawn Frayne and Alex Hornstein, two young inventors based in the Philippines, are taking their passion for clean free energy and developing a way to make it accessible and cheap for everyone. These guys are working tirelessly to provide a product that could be used by practically anyone to make homemade solar panels.
The FirstBuild micro-factory, a collaborative project among GE Appliances, the University of Louisville and Local Motors, a Phoenix-based open-source hardware innovator, opened July 24 on the Belknap Campus.
You are the reason FirstBuild exists, and we want to thank you for all of the love on social media. Our Twitter account set records during our July 24 grand opening, and we'd like to share some of our favorites with you. Whether you hashtagged #FirstBuild, #1bproto, retweeted us, @mentioned us or joined us in person for the opening celebrations, you are helping us make a difference in the maker movement. Together, we will create new and innovative products that begin with you.
Local Motors is reinventing cars, and car-building, from the ground up, using 3D printing, carbon fiber, "Microfactories," and a wide range of customizable features.
by Layne Hartsell There are any number of areas where emergence is occurring such as in nanotechnology, micromanufacturing (not to be confused with molecular manufacturing which is about 15 years away), economics, politics, and thus the term...
Jay Rogers aims for the company he co-founded to build at a Knoxville microfactory an attractive, electric-powered vehicle designed for staff at the University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory to get around campus.
Try to wrap your mind around this: a company is coming to National Harbor that can print a new car with a 3D printer. Local Motors says it will be the first on the East Coast to debut a fleet of pr...
The future is small, but strong for film. After reading more about ADOX, and how they make their film now, I have to say I am really impressed. They made the downsized gracefully. They believe in...
Seven new products, a micro-factory, custom sensor kits, and the death of the thermostat. Oh, and did we mention the national marketing campaign about how creepy robot butlers would be?
At the root of Gershenfeld’s course is a list of machines. These are not exotic, multi-million dollar machines, although you can certainly spend a pretty penny on the top end models in each category. Rather, these devices, with the possible exception of the 3d printer are all fairly well known quantities. Gershenfeld’s Fabrication Laboratory (Fab-Lab, for short), networks these various machines and makes them work together. He does that in a space about the size of a two-car garage.
The Local Motors Phoenix micro-factory has been looking for other options to create a nice finish on smaller metal products like the LM keychains. Typically achieved by grinding the metal surfaces manually, Corey Renner, mechatronics engineer, is designing and building a tumbler using cost-effective materials to make the finishing process more convenient and efficient. Check out his plan in this video.
A star-studded (at least in the manufacturing, maker and political communities) crowd gathered this morning at FirstBuild to celebrate the grand opening of this unprecedented facility.
GE's FirstBuild Microfactory in Louisville, KT is a place where innovative ideas are born. It's a maker-space for new appliances, and we got to check out the three latest products.
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