GCM 750 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: 3D Printing, Bre Pettis, Formlabs
15 Jan 2017
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Wanted to take 3d printing from mainframe, big, unaffordable desktop. Print by extruding liquid (usually plastic) drop by drop - fused deposition. Modeling or laser to fuse resins and metals - stereolithography. Founded by bre pettis, zach hoeken, adam mayer. A: software, b: design and marketing, figurehead, later ceo, z: engineering. Makerbot was poster child of 3d printing, but small relative to other 3d printing companies like 3d systems (invented 3d printing) and stratasys. These two controlled industrial 3d printing market. 3d printing tech isn"t new, but words like personal and desktop are. Big guys previously ignored consumer space, but 3d systems cubeprinter competed with makerbot. Personal fabrication: having tools to make anything available on your desktop. Quit phd in mit to concentrate on 3d printing. Founded by max lobovsky, david cranor, natan linder. M: engineering, d: design and marketing, n: business. Formlabs wanted to position themselves as prosumer, less diy than makerbot.
