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MakerBot Industries Brings Manufacturing Back To Brooklyn
pacopico writes "A few decades ago, Brooklyn was filled with manufacturing companies. Today? Er, not so much. It's mostly restaurants and condos. That is, except for MakerBot Industries, which is assembling 3D printers for consumers by hand at a real, live factory. Businessweek profiled the MakerBot founder Bre Pettis and his goal of revitalizing manufacturing in New York, describing him as a weird 'throwback who lives in the future.'"
Lots of people are already doing this at least in part RepRap is capable of replicating about 50% of its own parts
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"condos and restaurants...Except for MakerBot Industries"
Nope...you know, aside from three operating breweries, and hundreds of machine shops that dot my neighborhood. Or the medical instruments manufacturers, or the concrete and cement factories, or the furniture companies...
Just because it's not electronics, doesn't mean there's no manufacturing. A simple google search shows at least hundreds of companies.
PS - you must not go outside the gentrified parts of Brooklyn because the majority of the borough is still non-condo and sparsely restauranted.
"3D printing techniques that can do metal, such as laser sintering"
Can we please stop lending credence to "3d printing" by associating it with legitimate, decades-old manufacturing processes? If it's called laser sintering, CALL IT LASER SINTERING. IT'S NOT 3D PRINTING.