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According to Bre Pettis, founder of Makerbot: "Hermit crabs don’t make their own shells. They scavenge their homes. And now, hermit crabs are facing a housing shortage as the worldwide...
This year 3D printing technology, crowd-sourcing information scored big points, making their way into the slew of fascinating designs that reinvision how we interpret information and how we...
The Wiki Weapon Project is raising money on the net to create open source 3D printing of weapons using technology available now.What changes everything is that all that is needed to 3D print a...
3D printing looks set to digitize manufacturing. For the crowdsourcing industry, the simultaneous rise of 3D printing is particularly exciting because it gives more power to the individuals in the...
DIYROCKETS announced the launch of a competition to see who can build the best open source rocket engines via 3D printing. “The goal of DIYROCKETS is to lower the cost of building space...
Quirky then seems to be the yin to MakerBot's yang. The community participates just as passionately as the Thingiverse crowd, and the output, with Quirky's help, is good enough to...
It is now possible to buy something pretty close to a Star Trek replicator for a few hundred dollars (or a few thousand if you don't want to play Scottie and build from a kit). The era of 3D printing is upon us, and if you listen to some of its devotees, it's going to change the world.
The Wiki Weapon Project is raising money on the net to create open source 3D printing of weapons using technology available now. What changes everything is that all that is needed to 3D print a...
A few weeks ago, Cody Wilson, a law student at the University of Texas, launched a campaign on IndieGoGo to crowdfund a 3D printed weapon. Despite its reputation for being open-minded when it comes to allowing projects onto its platform, IndieGoGo decided to pull the campaign shortly after it launched.
Wilson’s Defense Distributed wants to catalyze a massive online catalog of weapons, similar to the user-generated encyclopedia, Wikipedia. The online blueprints, which are free and open to...
Reprap founder Adrian Bowyer and GroAction founder's Luke Miller Callahan discuss the evolution of RepRap and where 3d-printing is heading.
An exciting project that may have long-term effects on the crowdsourcing industry recently completed its fundraising on Kickstarter. The Bukobot, created by Diego Porqueras, aims to make 3D printers affordable, the most basic model costing only $599.
“Glachant’s fellow Thingiverse users saw his design and got excited about the possibility of creating an entire working clock that could be printed on a MakerBot,” a MakerBot rep wrote in an email...
Shapeways announced today that it raised $6.2 million from Lux Capital, a New York venture capital firm. The company helps people create objects using 3D printing technology. It has printed over one million products in a number of different materials, ranging from “Elasto Plastic” to sterling silver.
Aside from direct patent infringement, 3D Systems claims that the crowd-funding campaign has caused “immediate and irreparable injury and damage to 3D Systems” by promoting the new printer....
3D Systems, a 3D printing company, announced on Tuesday it is suing Formlabs, a rival, for patent infringement. As Formlabs had raised funds for its Form 1 printer on Kickstarter, 3D System is also bringing the allegations against the crowdfunding site.
The biggest and brightest players in the 3D printing industry, including the very inventor of the technology, have joined together in support of "Anatomica di Revolutis", the new...
As an alternate to equity investment, crowdfunding is a mutually beneficial way of supporting projects with a sliding level of perks or deals offered in return for campaign donations at various...
Here's a more comprehensive list of technologies that are giving people a shot at making their ideas a reality: - Crowdsourcing; - CAD Software; - 3D Printing; -...
Creative Barcode's CEO Maxine Horn writes in to discuss Kickstarter's recent naming in a patent infringement lawsuit. She dismisses the claim that Kickstarter acted as a sales agent for Formlabs' Form 1 3D printer and offers a potential solution to such legal tussles in the future.
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