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State of the Printer: A Look at Industrial Additive Fabrication

State of the Printer: A Look at Industrial Additive Fabrication

Terry Wohlers

By Terry Wohlers

Terry Wohlers

Industry consultant, analyst, author, and speaker Terry Wohlers is president of Wohlers Associates, an independent consulting firm he founded 30 years ago.

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Joseph Kowen

By Joseph Kowen

Joseph Kowen

Joseph Kowen, an associate consultant at Wohlers Associates, holds a law degree from Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel, and an MBA from Case Western Reserve University.

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These top-of-the-line machines can print huge parts from a range of materials. In some cases, they even print parts for aircrafts.

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PreNav Reveals Centimeter-Accurate Drone System

PreNav Reveals Centimeter-Accurate Drone System

By Mike Senese

Mike Senese

Mike Senese is the Executive Editor of Make: magazine. He is also a TV host, starring in various engineering and science shows for Discovery Channel, including Punkin Chunkin, How Stuff Works, and Catch It Keep It.

An avid maker, Mike spends his spare time tinkering with electronics, doing amateur woodworking, and attempting to cook the perfect pizza.

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With the launch of its centimeter-precision drone platform, PreNav is bringing quadcopter flight into highly technical arenas, both outdoors and in.

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How-To: Pipe Frame Coffee Table

How-To: Pipe Frame Coffee Table

By Haley Pierson-Cox

Haley Pierson-Cox

Haley Pierson-Cox from Red-Handled Scissors is a maker of crafts, a lover of cats, an avid swearing enthusiast, a cross-stitch book author, and a general purveyor of quirk. She's also sometimes an irritable cartoon named Tiny Cranky Haley. https://www.redhandledscissors.com

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For as long as I can remember, I’ve been a huge fan of industrial elements in home decor, and I love that current design trends are so in line with my own aesthetic tastes. A perfect example: this simple, modern pipe frame coffee table project!

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Chris Thorpe: 3D Printing the Industrial Revolution

Chris Thorpe: 3D Printing the Industrial Revolution

By Andrew Sleigh

Andrew Sleigh

I'm a maker, web geek, writer, photographer and walker based in Brighton, UK.

More at http://andrewsleigh.com/ Follow me on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/andrewsleigh

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The mainstream news media is awash with speculation that 3D printing is bringing about a second industrial revolution. Whether this is true or not, nowhere is the comparison more apt than with The Flexiscale Company, a small UK startup making 3D models of the great steam engines of the first industrial revolution. I caught up […]

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“The Machines That Made The Jet Age”

“The Machines That Made The Jet Age”

By Sean Michael Ragan

Sean Michael Ragan

I am descended from 5,000 generations of tool-using primates. Also, I went to college and stuff. I am a long-time contributor to MAKE magazine and makezine.com. My work has also appeared in ReadyMade, c't – Magazin für Computertechnik, and The Wall Street Journal.

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If you like giant machines—and who really doesn’t?—don’t miss Tim Heffernan’s wonderful new feature over at Boing Boing: The magnificent machine pictured above is a closed-die forging press, one of the biggest in the world. (For reference, check out the men standing at its foot, down there on the left.) It and nine other huge […]

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Rebar bike frames

Rebar bike frames

By Sean Michael Ragan

Sean Michael Ragan

I am descended from 5,000 generations of tool-using primates. Also, I went to college and stuff. I am a long-time contributor to MAKE magazine and makezine.com. My work has also appeared in ReadyMade, c't – Magazin für Computertechnik, and The Wall Street Journal.

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They’ve got to be heavy, and I can’t imagine how they might ride, but there’s no denying the post-apocalyptic awesomeness of sporting a bike you welded up yourself from a pile of rebar. Up top is a shot from the consistently-amusing-but-often-offensive There, I Fixed It, that got me Googling around for more….

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