The Glif; or, How to create a hit product with no money down
The Coinnovative singularity has arrived. The culmination of the concepts at the core of this rarely updated site have been demonstrated by the hugely successful Glif project.
Archive | Personal Manufacturing
March Crowdsourcing Odds and Ends
CloudFab now in Open Beta CloudFab recently launched into open beta, so you can now access their network of 3D printers. Just upload an STL file (a standard CAD file type) with a few instructions and specifications as to the printing process you are looking for and you will quickly get back quotes from shops [...]
Distributed design and manufacturing is here; or How I correctly predicted the future…
Each part of the chain for truly distributed and democratized product design and personal manufacturing have essentially come together to form a coherent whole.
Part 5: The evolution of mass customization and personal manufacturing
If you can imagine an object. Someone can build it. How does personal manufacturing relate to the various topics covered here? Well it democratizes manufacturing and design choices to everyone, everywhere. It decouples the design, manufacturing, assembly, and marketing of products like never before. I have categorized these related concepts into three levels of increasing [...]
