iammaxus

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by iammaxus 2y ago
There are post processing steps in injection molding. As you can see in the video, parts come off with gates on them that need to be removed. In the case of these printed parts, you can wash 1000 in one 10 minute cycle. A full accounting
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by iammaxus 8y ago
The margin that a reseller/distributor/retailer has on a product goes mostly to sales and marketing of those products in one form or another (ads, placement in a store, training of staff on the product, etc). If an OEM lets that
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by iammaxus 8y ago
Comments 1 and 2 sound like you have only experienced hobbyist-grade printers and not high quality, easy-to-use, professional tools. Engineers can waste time fiddling and there are many things that make sense to outsource during developmen
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by iammaxus 10y ago
Depending on the data that you look at, NYC and Boston are pretty close. http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/01/global... More importantly, Boston is much heavier into manufacturing techno
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by iammaxus 11y ago
These are some good warnings. The way I like to think about it is that the actual free cash available to spend from the grant is on the order of 1/3 of the sticker price when you fully account for the costs of getting the grant, admin
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by iammaxus 11y ago
Formlabs cofounder here. Of course, there is a difference between a demo focusing on implementing new features then the software that we are shipping. But yes, it was extremely impressive and it's no surprise that he is leading much o
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by iammaxus 11y ago
I believe the parent may have been referring to Stuxnet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet It is indeed possible that if the NSA used a very different strategy with vulnerabilities, Iran might be further along with
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by iammaxus 11y ago
High-speed gearing is indeed very difficult, but jet engines already typically have two separate, concentric rotating units (spools: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbofan#Basic_two_spool ). Also, as the article mentio
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by iammaxus 11y ago
Not exactly. We raised a seed round of $1.8m a little less than 1 year before the Kickstarter. We probably could have built and shipped the product off of the crowdfunding proceeds, but we couldn't have had such a successful crowdfun
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by iammaxus 11y ago
Formlabs Somerville, MA (Boston) Formlabs is bringing ground-breaking professional 3D printers to the desktop of every designer, engineer, researcher, and artist in the world. We pioneered the desktop SLA printer and now have the largest in
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by iammaxus 11y ago
The author is somehow making a connection between what "doomed" Makerbot and why they went closed source. Makerbot biggest growth year was 2013 (approximately quadrupled booking rate over the course of it), the year immediately a
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by iammaxus 12y ago
If you are interested in a job that would expose you to a wide range of disciplines inside and outside of CS, please send us your resume at jobs@formlabs.com
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by iammaxus 12y ago
We are proud to say that Ben Katz, one of the leaders and designers of the project interned at Formlabs over the summer and used our printers to make a beautiful detailed model of the roller coaster. http://formlabs.com/en&#
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by iammaxus 12y ago
I'd be interested to learn more as well ibeacon@formlabs.com
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Faster, Finer: Formlabs Updates its Flagship 3D Printer(makezine.com)
1 points by iammaxus 12y ago|0 comments
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by iammaxus 13y ago
Formlabs - http://formlabs.com - Boston (Somerville) - Full time and intern Formlabs makes the easiest to use and highest resolution desktop 3D printer. This requires a fusion of advanced hardware, software, and materials, all
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by iammaxus 13y ago
Actually, it wasn't the headquarters of AT&T and not even the headquarters of Bell Labs (a part of AT&T). The headquarters of Bell Labs was at another massive (though less beautiful) complex in Murray Hill, NJ http:/&#x2
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After Kickstarter, High-Res Form 1 3D Printer Maker Formlabs Bags $19M Series A(techcrunch.com)
6 points by iammaxus 13y ago|0 comments
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Formlabs Form 1 Teardown(bunniestudios.com)
38 points by iammaxus 13y ago|2 comments
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by iammaxus 14y ago
Defining the output quality and resolution of a 3D printer is a subtle thing. Sticking to DPI, laser spot sizes, and layer thicknesses is somewhat akin to comparing clock speeds of modern processors. The question is a lot more subtle than
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Form 1: high-resolution 3D printing on your desktop(kickstarter.com)
8 points by iammaxus 14y ago|0 comments