Makers
author Chris Anderson takes you to the front lines of a new industrial revolution as today's entrepreneurs, using open source design and 3-D printing, bring manufacturing to the desktop. In an age of custom-fabricated, do-it-yourself product design and creation, the collective potential of a million garage tinkerers and enthusiasts is about to be unleashed, driving a resurgence of American manufacturing. A generation of "Makers" using the Web's innovation model will help drive the next big wave in the global economy, as the new technologies of digital design and rapid prototyping gives everyone the power to invent -- creating "the long tail of things".
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- If you liked the article, then you should read Chris Anderson's book Makers: The New Industrial Revolution. Lots of interesting stuff about the "Maker" revolution, with 3d printing, etc. He also tells about 3d robotics got going. I really enjoyed it.
- The book "Makers: The New Industrial Revolution" by Chris Anderson talks a fair bit about 3D Robotics, in addition to lots of other interesting topics.
www.amazon.com/Makers-The-New-Industrial-Revolution/dp/0307720950
One of my favorite books of the year.
- >> The central promise—that distributed digital fabrication would bring manufacturing back to America, that every city would have micro-factories, that 3D printing would decentralize production—simply didn’t materialize.
> never heard that.
This book was a big deal, promised it ("Makers, the next industrial revolution") https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/makers-chris-anderson/11109...
- > This book was a big deal, promised it ("Makers, the next industrial revolution") https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/makers-chris-anderson/11109...
Interestingly, I am not aware that this book was really popular or well-known in Germany (I honestly hear about this specific book for the first time, though I am aware that some marketers (who in my opinion did not really understand the Maker scene or 3D printing) made such claims).
Instead, at that time, in Germany nerds were getting excited about understanding how to build 3D printers (in particular partially self-replicating ones (RepRap)) and how 3D printing
- could be used to make yourself much more independent of the discretion of part manufacturers (i.e. some part is broken? Use a CAD system to re-design it and 3D-print your re-design),
- makes you capable of building stuff in small scale "that should exist", but no manufacturer is producing,
- enables part designs that are (nearly) impossible to manufacture using any other existing technology, and thus basically enables you to completely reimagine and improve how nearly every produced part that you see around you is designed,
- ...
I would say that the mentioned nerd visions of this time have at least partially been implemented and/or are on a good way towards this goal. It's just that the practical implementations did not come with a spectacular change in the overarching mindet of society, but rather are highly important, but not (necessarily) revolutionary changes in the lifes of people who want these changes to be part of their life.
- Similar point in Chris Anderson's "Makers" book as well. Manufacturing innovation is coming from the bottom up, from people who don't have a long history in the particular product space.
- To add some context, this page is run by Chris Anderson, formerly editor at Wired, and now CEO of 3D Robotics. His book "Makers" [1] includes a few stories about the DIY Drones community.
[1] http://www.amazon.com/Makers-The-New-Industrial-Revolution/d...
