Comments on: Will 3D printing and crowdsourcing bring the industrial revolution home?

By: paopao

paopao — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 03:21:00 +0000

3D printing is generally used in the manufacturing and commercial development of engineering, such as the defense industry, aerospace and other important parts of the high-end manufacturing, engineering and manufacturing of small quantities or single product production. With 3D printing technology continues to mature, the cost has been effectively controlled, cost reduction means that the expansion of the audience, the further expansion of its market. Emma @ Epson Ink Cartridges

By: Stuart Armstrong

Stuart Armstrong — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 04:11:00 +0000

Nice to see some comments and true “bi-lateral” blog from CEO. (vs those 1 way pulpits)

Forbes article about how HP may find some “Blue Ocean” in the 3D printer/design market. Ironically the cartridges and printers themselves could be made by the 3D’s layering-slow but steady. Printer making printers. (the human organ part is scary).

http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevefaktor/2012/10/15/how-hp-could-reinvent-3d-printing-and-itself/

As Jeremy Rifkin has pointed out we are moving to a distributed, localized “sharing” ecomomy and crowdsourcing is going to be a big part of that new “re-distribution” of the earths limited “natural resources” and unlimited “intellectual resources”.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Rifkin

regards,

Stuart Armstrong, Canada

By: Kathy Blackmore

Kathy Blackmore — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 10:24:00 +0000

Yes, I agree. Innovation cannot be stopped, and it shouldn’t when used right.

By: Andrei

Andrei — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 13:10:00 +0000

I think patents and copyright might be an issue – with zillioons of patents it can be tricky.. however.. remember the music industry, images and so on? Breaking 100 patents or copyrights a day might become a de facto standard. The world is moving way faster than the bureaucrats.

I see potential in 3D printers.. I see democratization and open competition moving into manufacturing – an industry once reserved to big large scale companies. I see amazon offering JIT manufacturing similar to printing books. I see manufacturing clouds where you can order 10 pieces today and 100000 tomorrow.

By: Aleks Jakulin

Aleks Jakulin — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 18:54:00 +0000

3D printers are now affordable. Now we need a VisiCalc for 3D printers – a killer app that made home computers useful.

By: CA

CA — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 17:05:00 +0000

Political science can also give arguments about why it could be a sort of political mutation: http://yannickrumpala.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/rumpala-additive-manufacturing-as-global-remanufacturing-of-politics-_blog-version_1.pdf

By: Kathy Blackmore

Kathy Blackmore — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 14:43:00 +0000

With DRM patents already been filed, the development of 3D printing is going to be a struggle between legality, safety and innovation.

Let’s just hope it ends with with more winners than losers.

Kathy @ Cartridge Shop

By: Ashwin Bhambri

Ashwin Bhambri — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 13:03:00 +0000

I am really keen to understand 3d printing in depth is there a reference post to this topic