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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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.)
"Felon" Was it for fraud (Score:2)
Re: "Felon" Was it for fraud, embezzlement, abusing child labor, or anything actually relevant to the business?
As a matter of fact, it was. Insider trading is a form of fraud, and it defrauds all other stock market traders who trade in the same stock. It may even have defrauded you if you have an IRA fund or an annuity or any other form of investment that directly or even indirectly deals with the stock market.
When will Dice realize that videos are failures? (Score:1)
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
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The transcript is terrible though. Doesn't even separate the questions from the answers visibly.
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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..
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What about Mendel 90 or a Prusa i3?
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My point is that the term "engineer" is tossed around far too loosely today, and most engineers do what technicians did 20 years ago. And not because the jobs got harder, but because the universities flood the markets and simplify the content of the classes.
I'll take this one. MIT accepts 1 in 3000 applicants. Based on that Limor Freid is more intelligent than you by 3000 times and that is if and only if you have applied to MIT. You probably haven't. Clearly you are pissed about this because it has debased your manhood. Get over it. You are not going to get anywhere in the technical or engineering fields playing those types of mental games. You will only get anywhere by buckling down, doing the work and the learning and using it to accomplish something you an
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Second change? You didn't get a complete refund?
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+funny doesn't give any karma.
Where do we go from here? (Score:2)
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]
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As a CNC Machinist, given the right tooling, I can produce any shape you can imagine. There exist 7+ axis mills. If those cannot make the shape, it is because the shape cannot exist. They are no worse to work with than any other complex machine tool. So long as you have the control software, they work fine. You'd have as much trouble hand programing them as you would have attempting to hand program a 3d printer making a complex shape.
Interview? Where? (Score:2)
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
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Adafruit tells MakerBot to get back to open source and puts the new CEO of MakerBot in the hot seat by telling him not DRM 3D filament and you say "Adafruit selling soul, Hackaday following suit". Get real.
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