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Open Source Hardware Pioneer Ladyada Interviews the New MakerBot CEO 38

ptorrone writes: Open source hardware pioneer and founder of Adafruit Limor "Ladyada" Fried sat down and interviewed the new CEO of MakerBot, Jonathan Jaglom. She asked some really tough questions had some suggestions for them, too, if they're going to turn things around. Discussed: Is there a desire for MakerBot to patch things up with the open source community? Jaglom wants to assure the 3D-printing community there are not any plans for filament DRM, and it was nice to hear him say "patents are not the way to win." Lastly, Fried suggested the open-sourcing of some specific elements of the MakerBot to get back to its open-source hardware roots.
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Open Source Hardware Pioneer Ladyada Interviews the New MakerBot CEO

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  • I don't gave time to watch the entire interview. All I want to know is if the new CEO was asked about the Makerbot association with a known felon and how that has been received by the community. If so can anyone please post a time code?
    • by Anonymous Coward

      I don't gave time to watch the entire interview. All I want to know is if the new CEO was asked about the Makerbot association with a known felon and how that has been received by the community. If so can anyone please post a time code?

      You care more about this kind of bullshit than something that could actually affect the user community and product, like DRM?

      Screw your fucking head on straight already.

      (and in case you were wondering, no, I'm not a felon trying to offer a defense.)

    • When will Dice realize that all of the videos they keep shoving on us here are unwanted? Each and every story with these goddamn videos ends up with more comments from people saying they don't want videos than there are comments about whatever the video is about.

      Nobody came to Slashdot for videos between 1997 and 2014. Now that it's 2015, why the fuck would they think that people come here for videos all of a sudden?

      Look, we aren't business executives. We don't sit in our offices all day watching webcasts a

      • It's a written report of the interview. The link doesn't even have a video. Click on it next time before complaining.
        • by AmiMoJo ( 196126 )

          The transcript is terrible though. Doesn't even separate the questions from the answers visibly.

    • by Fwipp ( 1473271 )

      Are you talking about Martha Stewart? Because that's all I found on google - well, that and your comment.

      Your G+ avatar is awful, by the way - you should really shave that facial hair..

      • I think I get the comment about the avitar, but my username here is not the same as my Google name. What the hell is wrong with Google that they are showing people my google account information when they search based on /. postings? I would really like to know what you found, but please don't post it here. You could try to reach me with this throwaway email address, but it will only be good for the few minutes until the email harvesters get it and the first 9 pieces of spam show up: fromAvitarFinder.kman@sp
  • The co-founder and CEO of SOLS, a startup that manufactures custom 3-D printed orthotic insoles using scans of customers' feet, Kegan Schouwenburg is frustrated that consumer 3-D printing's most popular application is turning Internet memes into printed models.
    For years, items -- from bobble heads to phone cases -- have been 3-D printed primarily because the technology itself is headline grabbing. As Schouwenburg points out, this isn't the case with most manufacturing technologies. ''Nobody is going around saying, ''this is so cool because it was injection molded,'' she says. ''They're saying ''this is a great product because it's better and improves my life in some way.''''

    What Is Consumer 3-D Printing Really Good For? [entrepreneur.com]

    The view from a height from someone with access to commercial/industrial grade tech and design tools.

    The first problem I have with a 3D printer in the home is that I am asthmatic.

    I could show you the stones marking the graves of family members who worked with friable asbestos and volatile organics, but the geek is as resistant to talk like this as the Tea Bagger is of climate change.

    Hopefully the hypochondriacs and safety fascistas don't get to interfere with this hobby like they interfere my woodworking, metalworking, plastic casting... or just about anything else fun come to think of it.

    I know from experience that lots of very silly regulation arises out speculation like this. For example VOC regulations: one person coughed once after painting all day with the windows closed, so now we can't buy oil based paints.

    Health and 3-D Printing [ultimaker.com]

  • All I found was supposed summary of the interview. Given that Fried's attitudes about open hardware are at best schizophrenic, I'm not sure I trust her summary of the conversation. Fried is on record saying that "tools don't matter" -- so to her it doesn't matter if open hardware designs are only editable using proprietary tools, or even if the design files aren't released at all except as a pdf of the schematics. She is very, very short-sighted in that regard, but hey, it's a profitable form of short-si

  • thanks. good articel about 3d Printer guide. http://priceha.ir/ [priceha.ir] useful.

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