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Lis (Liz) Bokt, is the Executive Director of a 43,000 square foot makerspace, in Grand Rapids, Michigan. “The Geek Group Science Center is where individuals can work on projects, regardless of scope. We have everyone from engineers doing product prototyping on our Haas CNC machine or our 6 Afinia 3D printers; to folks playing with our KUKA Robotics prototype KR-350/1; to kids doing their homework. We have 25,542 members that span the globe. For this reason, video is important to our outreach. We also hold tours every week and that helps us increase our membership.” Transformational Tour “One of my favorite moments came during one of those tours. A high [Read more…]

Jason Rider – 3D Printer-Enabled Entrepreneur Jason is the Founder of Thriving Systems Design, LLC, in Ft. Collins, CO and the inventor of the C-Bite Stake Clamp and Anchor System. The C-Bite System snaps on to the most common trellising products to hold garden plants. “I’m definitely a Serial Entrepreneur and was a bit frustrated because my notebook full of ideas weren’t coming to fruition. For example, in the early 90’s I was driving in my car and thought, “it would be great to have some sort of a one-handed dental floss contraption that I could use in my car.” Then, a while later, I saw them for sale.” 3D [Read more…]

Happy Time Lapse Thursday! Today we wanted to print something that would appeal to our Creative Afiniacs. We actually printed a few of theses, and have grown quite fond of how interesting they look in photos. We’re on a mission to print one of these in every color of filament, so we can recreate our owl photo. We printed a Coral Cuff created by pixil3d. We are working our way through printing these with every filament color, but the end result will be a beautiful display of this unique piece that will showcase the H-Series ability to master fine detail in a production style format. We printed our file at [Read more…]

I’m loving it. Such a solid and well made product! Great documentation and Great Support! Very good quality prints. [Read more…]

My boyfriend loved the printer, he was shocked and excited. He always wanted a 3D printer but never thought it could be affordable. He saw the prices when they first came out and just figured it wasn’t something he would have access to. Definitely the best Christmas present ever for him. J The printer was very easy to set up and use. The actual prints look really good too. From talking to other people and looking at reviews etc.. your printer really does seem to be the best/easiest out of the box and overall best value. The MAKE award was right on! [Read more…]