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I’ve been involved with 3D printing and related for some time now. Still I’m just starting to get a grip how big it will be and how much it will most likely change our lives. I’ve read some writings which have named the change as “The third industrial revolution”[ Economist ]. I’m that kind of person who wants to know the big picture first and then dig into the details. I don’t need to know everything, just enough to see most obvious features. So this post is how I see what ’3D Printing Revolution’ includes.
3D printing revolution – a few thoughts | Creating open source soil for joint development
Inside a low-rise building in a business park at Rock Hill, South Carolina, is a vision of the factory of the future. Several dozen machines are humming away, monitored from a glass-fronted control room by two people looking at computer screens. Some of the machines are the size of a car, others that of a microwave oven, but they all have windows that you can peer into.
How 3D printers change the rules of manufacturing | TechCentral
Redesigning Reality: How 3-D Printing Is Shaping the Future of Art, Engineering, and Everything Else | Artinfo
Two interesting things happened this year. First, doctors in Belgium performed the country's first face transplant. Second, Asher Levine , a young avant-garde fashion designer for the likes of Lady Gaga , produced a pair of radical sunglasses on-site during his New York Fashion Week show. What do a surgical procedure and a line of shades have in common? Both were made possible by additive manufacturing, also known as 3-D printing or rapid prototyping, a technique whose quickly expanding accessibility may have as much of a revolutionary influence on how we relate to manufactured objects as Ford’s assembly line. It's a space-age sounding process: The same way a printer produces a document based on a computer file, additive manufacturing devices create made-to-order objects based on a CAD file.Across Africa there is a vibrant culture of people creating things. Hardware products. It’s rarely glamorous as our inventors and micro-entrepreneurs innovate on products due to necessity — there simply aren’t enough jobs and they need to feed their families. Regardless of the reasons why they do it, what this has created is a culture of innovation.
Fabrication and manufacturing: The future of African hardware innovation | memeburn
I'd like to sneak up on the question of 3-D printing by way of boring old 2-D printing. Typography used to be heavy industry. The companies that make typefaces are still called foundries because there was a time when letters were made of metal.
Why 3-D Printing Isn't Like Virtual Reality - Technology Review
Why 3-D Printing Will Go the Way of Virtual Reality - Technology Review
Update: Tim Maly has published an excellent counterpoint to this post over at the Tech Review Guest blog. There is a species of magical thinking practiced by geeks whose experience is computers and electronics—realms of infinite possibility that are purposely constrained from the messiness of the physical world—that is typical of Singularitarianism, mid-90s missives about the promise of virtual reality, and now, 3-D printing. As 3-D printers come within reach of the hobbyist— $1,100 for MakerBot's Thing-O-Matic —and The Pirate Bay declares "physibles" the next frontier of piracy , I'm seeing usually level-headed thinkers like Clive Thompson and Tim Maly declare that the end of shipping is here and we should all start boning up on Cory Doctorow's science fiction fantasies of a world in which any object can be rapidly synthesized with a little bit of energy and raw materials.
Downloading — quite often stealing, in the eyes of the law — music, movies, books and photos is easier than bobbing for apples in a bucket without water. It has kept legions of lawyers employed fighting copyright violations without a whole lot to show for their efforts in the past decade. You think that was bad? Just wait until we can copy physical things. It won’t be long before people have a 3-D printer sitting at home alongside its old inkjet counterpart. These 3-D printers, some already costing less than a computer did in 1999, can print objects by spraying layers of plastic, metal or ceramics into shapes.
Disruptions: The 3-D Printing Free-For-All - NYTimes.com
About a year ago, I wrote a weekly post at Wired ‘s Gadget Lab called “DIY Friday.” The first story was about MintyBoost , a USB charger made from AA batteries and an Altoids tin, devised by Adafruit’s Limor Fried. That was what DIY/maker hardware news mostly looked like in the last week of August 2010. Now, let’s look at the first week of August in 2011: Design software giant Autodesk , creators of AutoCAD, Maya, Sketchbook and 123D , purchased Instructables , a popular online community for DIYers to share and discuss their projects, and help others build their own.
Big DIY: The Year the Maker Movement Broke | Epicenter | Wired.com
27 July 2011 Last updated at 23:09 GMT By Peter Day Presenter, In Business Loughborough University's machines can even print larger structures such as building materials
BBC News - Will 3D printing revolutionise manufacturing?
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There's a dangerous group of anti-copyright activists out there who pose a clear and present danger to the future of authors and publishing. They have no respect for property or laws. What's more, they're powerful and organized, and have the ears of lawmakers and the press. I'm speaking, of course, of the legal departments at ebook publishers. These people don't believe in copyright law. Copyright law says that when you buy a book, you own it.
Extrait du film « Fight Club » (David Fincher, 1999) Il parle d’amour, de technologie et de démocratie : mais le dernier roman de Cory Doctorow, « Makers », parle surtout de marché. Son livre n’arrive pas de nulle part : une « crise » qui commence à durer, des progrès technologiques qui ne profitent pas vraiment au grand nombre, un recul de l’état de nos démocraties à tous les niveaux... De tous ceux qui peuvent brosser un tableau de ce qui risque de nous arriver demain, Cory Doctorow est pour l’instant l’un des plus crédibles. Doctorow, c’est un des piliers de Boing Boing , le blog le plus lu sur Terre, un mélange de bricolage high-tech, de récits des abus étatiques contre les libertés ou des excès des grandes sociétés, de licornes qui vomissent des arcs-en-ciel, de design, de choses bizarres ou drôles, et de politique.
"Makers", le roman qui prône la révolution par le bricolage | Rue89
Is your Matter Compiler broken? Well, step on down to the local .MGX for all your 3D printed needs! Materialise's .MGX brand has just opened its very own flagship store in Brussels, and it professes to be the first physical store solely dedicated to 3D printed wares. It's primarily high design baubles right now, but we're sure it won't be long before we're chucking our old and busted cutlery into the deke bin and churning out new sets with our at-home M.C. we bought at Target.
.MGX opens world's first store dedicated to 3D printed goods -- Engadget
Design And The New Industrial Revolution - Technology Review
If you hadn't heard, there's a new industrial revolution sweeping the world. This revolution, say the champions of this new kind of making, is the result of three factors that together change the nature and economics of manufacturing. Finally, there is the precipitous drop in the cost of 3D printers and other rapid prototyping techniques.3-D printers will be your next home accessory - Jun. 6, 2011
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Imagine being able to print your own shoes or keys. Some top engineers are betting that home fabrication machines could soon be as common in the household as toaster ovens. They sound cutting-edge, but 3-D printers have been around for more than 20 years. Until recently, they've been multimillion-dollar machines used mainly by manufacturers like automobile and aerospace companies. Now, the technology has evolved far enough that cheap devices are making 3-D printing accessible to the masses, spurring all types of creativity. Hobbyists are printing their own action figures, doctors have used the systems to print artificial organs, and chefs are testing out ways to print gourmet meals .¿Te gustó la primera entrega de la película que ves cada día y que podría titularse El mundo está cambiando de arriba abajo (esa que tuvo a los ordenadores como protagonistas y que revolucionó la comunicación y la estructura de muchos negocios)? Pues prepárate para la segunda parte. Llegan las impresoras 3D y prometen transformar el modelo de producción mundial (y, de paso, fabricar alimentos y órganos humanos). Advertido quedas. En unos años estarás imprimiendo una bicicleta en tu casa y las donaciones de órganos se reemplazarán por hígados impresos.