air filtration system, 63, 95
Material Recycler (R3DO), 63
Zero-G Printer, 62
Internet of Things, 50
Linder, Nathan, 30, 33
Lobovsky, Max, 30–31
MIT Media Lab, 30–31
See also
Formlabs
Made In Space. See Afsarifard, Hasti
MakerBot
acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS),
29
Cupcake, 29
Adam Mayer, 28–29
Bre Pettis, 28–29
polylactic acid (PLA), 29
Replicator, 4, 29
Zach “Hoeken” Smith, 28–29
Stratasys, 29
Thing-o-matic, 29
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(MIT)
Mediated Matter group, 73–75
MIT Media Lab, 30–31, 73, 75
Self-Assembly Lab, 70–71
Material Recycler (R3DO), 63
Mattel
ThingMaker, 53–54
National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA), 62, 71–72
Natural Machines, 49–50
object file format (OBJ), 25
OctoPrint, 88
Olguin, Carlos, 68–71
BioINK, 71
open-source technology, 29, 87–88
See also intellectual property
Oxman, Neri, 73–76
Mediated Matter group, 73–75
Silk Pavilion, 74–75
patents, 10, 13, 15, 33–34, 85–87
See also intellectual property
Perpetual Plastic Project, 22
Plastic Bank, 22
polylactic acid (PLA), 29
product liability and safety
guns, 90–91
history, 88–89
Jungle, The, 89
laws, 88–91
programmable matter
art projects, 73–75
Self-Assembly Lab, 70–71
Wanderers, An Astrobiological
Exploration, 74
Project Cyborg, 69–70
prosthetics
E-nable, 37
Global Minimum, 38
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
3D Print Exchange, 37, 40
David Sengeh, 38
Superhero Cyborgs, 38
Van Buren (OH) High School
students, 6
ProtoPrint, 22
prototypes
hearts, 38–40
recycling. See 3D printing health and
environment issues
RedWorks, 72
RepRap printer, 28
Adrian Bowyer, 28, 66
selective laser sintering (SLS), 20–21
See also Deckard, Carl
Silk Pavilion, 74–75
stereolithography file format (STL).
See Hull, Charles (Chuck)
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