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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, yo…

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…

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…

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 in…

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 f…

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 imp…

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 vulnerabili…

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_tw…

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…

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 p…

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 ra…

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

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 …

I'd be interested to learn more as well ibeacon@formlabs.com

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 a…

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 beautifu…

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…