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Open Source Hardware Pioneer Ladyada Interviews the New MakerBot CEO
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.
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.)
What about Mendel 90 or a Prusa i3?
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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?
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The videos are like the Slashdot Beta site: they're totally unwanted. Did Dice not learn anything from the Beta failure? Did they not learn that when an idea is so soundly rejected, that it should be thrown out? The videos need to go! Nobody wants them!
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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?
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
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-sightedness.
As for Makerbot -- until proven otherwise it is best to assume they are beyond redemption. After all, they are owned by an aggressive patent-hoarder in the 3D printing space.
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.
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
It's a written report of the interview. The link doesn't even have a video. Click on it next time before complaining.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
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 point to as an accomplishment. Limor Freid has not only very many of these things I speak of , she has many of the per week. What are you doing exactly with your time?
Explain to me how Limor is an "example" of "Universities flooding the markets and simplifying the contents of classes". It is clear you never graduated from a college or never went to MIT so you cannot comment on that can you?
The transcript is terrible though. Doesn't even separate the questions from the answers visibly.
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
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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