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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…]

Afinia Desktop 3D Printers Selected by Project Lead The Way (PLTW) Chanhassen, MN – March 24, 2014 Afinia’s award-winning H-Series Desktop 3D Printer has been selected by Project Lead The Way as a solution to enhance its science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) curriculum for its network of more than 5,000 schools. “We are pleased that PLTW has selected the Afinia 3D Printer as an option for both its middle school (PLTW Gateway) and high school (PLTW Engineering) programs,” said Mitch Ackmann, President of Afinia. “The use of 3D printers as a part of STEM curriculum is growing rapidly, and ours is really easy to set up and use, which [Read more…]

by Aaron H. Pratt The proliferation of printers in the 3D space has been remarkable. Among the most exciting things in the news in the past few weeks have been a 3D pen for manually drawing with plastic at a sub-$100 price point(1), and of course President Obama’s acknowledgement of the industry in his State of the Union Address(2). President Obama correctly acknowledged the laboratory where “new workers are mastering 3D Printing” as the appropriate domain of the 3D Printer today. He also keyed in on the technology as having the “potential to revolutionize the way we make everything”, which is simultaneously visionary and (in the short run) unrealistic. But [Read more…]

Printed four cyclinders today smaller and skinnier than a straw with ABS with .15 on FINE with STABLE STUPPORT..used blue tape and elmers glue stick on the tape…they came out fantastic.. we are a design firm for As Seen On TV and this little Afinia will be the unit that prototypes a lot of the stuff you see in the next coming months! Can’t wait to see what you guys make to compete size wise with the Cube X..put us down for a preorder lol [Read more…]