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Make Magazine Is Planning The “Ultimate 3D Printer Shootout” Issue
If any single publication can claim to represent the maker movement, I suppose Make Magazine is it. John Abella says they are working on a massive guide to 15 hobby-level 3D printers, to be released in...
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Q&A With Joe Justice Of Wikispeed on GeekWire and Next Cast
Joe Justice on inventing, innovating and executing at lean startups.
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Makerbot Replicator 2 Announced
The announcement. They don’t seem to have released the design files yet, but they are moving up-market with phenomenal speed. This one is pro-sumer and their website is all grey-tones and flash and...
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Makerbot Might Be Going Closed Source
When I saw the Replicator 2, and Makerbot’s slick new marketing, and the glaring lack of ANY reference to providing the design files, I asked the question. So did a lot of other people, including Josef...
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Bre Pettis Responds To Comments
It looks like damage control is the first thing on today’s to-do list. Bre Pettis responded to many of the comments on his original blog post. His overall point seems to be that he’s not going to be,...
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The Definitive Makerbot Open vs Closed Source Discussion
I did my best to document all the different points of view that are relevant to the open source hardware world but are spread all over the interwebs. The original Makerbot founders. This post got big,...
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Bre Pettis Of Makerbot Tries Again (Emphasis On Try)
If anyone was suffering under the illusion that Makerbot had suddenly become an evil company that was plotting evil and evily being evil, then Pettis’ new post should put those fears to rest. Pettis,...
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The Amp Hour #114
I think this episode of The Amp Hour is a nice segue from Makerbot’s open/closed source fiasco. After an introduction about winter and new jobs they discuss the Replicator 2 and Pettis’ abysmal message...
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Ford Officially Backing Open Source 3D Printers
In a press release Ford Motor Company bragged about using 3D printing in general, and the open source Makerbot Thing-O-Matic in particular, to develop some of the smaller plastic parts for its...
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MakerBot Re-branded Thingiverse…Yawn
As reported on by Make Magazine, MakerBot has decided to change the logo on the Thingiverse page from “Thingiverse” to “MakerBot Thingiverse” and apparently some people feel this is a problem. Anyway,...
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Year of Open Source 2013 Calendar
Year of Open Source is a lifestyle and documentary project by Sam Muirhead. He is spending a year replacing as much as possible of what he does with open source alternatives. As part of his fundraising...
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