In this last episode of Season One, Bre Pettis, co-host of The Edge, talks about the early days of MakerBot. As co-founder and former CEO of MakerBot, Bre played a huge role in popularizing 3D printing and making it accessible to students, educators, and makers.
In this episode, we speak with Tiffany Tseng, a mechanical engineer turned UX/UI designer. As fabrication tools make their way from the factory floor to our desktops, designers like Tiffany have spent a lot of time thinking about how to create powerful yet intuitive and modern interfaces for makers like us to use.
The desktop machine category has expanded to include industrial machinery that’s sometimes hard to imagine actually puttingona desk. One recent addition isWazer, a desktop waterjet cutter.
Liz Corbin is a materials designer and researcher. In this episode she talks about biomaterials, and how her organization Materiom is enabling makers and designers to experiment and fabricate with these alternative materials.
The founders of Breakfast share a behind the scenes look at how they approach the design and fabrication of the company's high-tech contemporary art installations. Hint: their prototyping motto is hidden in their name.
Ben Redwood, Director of Supply Chain at 3D Hubs, shares some of the recent transitions the company has gone through and what it means to automate human interactions in manufacturing.
John Saunders of NYCCNC talks about how he initially got into machining and what the current landscape looks like for educating the next generation of machinists.
Che-Wei Wang and Taylor Levy of CW&T discuss what it means to keep production close to home and why they're investing in their basement fabrication and prototyping studio.