3D FABBING STATE OF THE ART

3D printing and desktop manufacturing innovators tell us what’s currently on their radars.

BY GARETH BRANWYN

We asked leaders in the field of 3D printing and desktop fabricating, and early adopters of this technology, a simple question: What are you most excited about right now; what has your attention? Here’s some of what they told us.

Jeffrey McGrew and Jillian Northrup, Because We Can, design-build studio becausewecan.org

Everything has gotten so much more accessible, both the technology itself and the amount of help online. We could now buy a plastic extruder kit from MakerBot, mount it on our inexpensive ShopBot machine, and have a 3D printer that could make something 4 feet by 8 feet by 6 inches thick. That’s ...

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