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World Maker Faire and Maker Con NYC
an APMM report
CONTENTS
PAGE 1 WORLD MAKER FAIRE
PAGE 5 PRESIDENT’S LETTER
PAGE 7 ANNOUNCEMENTS
PAGE 8 WOMEN IN MODEL MAKING: TANYA SCHRODER,NIKE, INC.
PAGE 11 BOOK REVIEWThe Second Machine Age: Work, Progress and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies
PAGE 14 MEMBER NEWS
PAGE 15 INDUSTRY NEWS
APMM newsletterFALL 2014
FALL 2014 1
Submitted by Bruce Willey
If the APMM is made up of 5-star restaurant chefs (and you know it is!),
then the maker community is for everyone who is interested in cooking.
Like us, many makers create physical objects in a shop setting using a wide
variety of skills and tools. Like the APMM, the maker community strives to
gain access to better technology and methods, recruit new members, as
well as leverage their numbers with providers. They also get together
occasionally to learn and share what they know. In September, more than
700 makers from dozens of countries gathered to exhibit at the 5th annual
“World Maker Faire” in New York City.
After the makers had set up at the New York Hall of Science, tens of
thousands of adults and
children came to the “Greatest
Show & Tell On Earth”, where
they could learn how to
fabricate, sew and code; make
and fly planes and rockets;
design robots and games; make
up new beverages; watch DIY
cars race and DIY drones fight;
and see new tools like the
latest 3D printers, portable
versions of CNC routers and Start ‘em while they’re young
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laser cutters and other cool stuff. They could
attend lectures and workshops on funding start-
ups or navigating patent law or getting work with
NASA, or the healthcare, consumer electronics or
automotive industries. Of course they also got to
explore starting and financing for-profit
makerspaces and NFP’s in schools and libraries,
etc. They could buy amazing equipment and toys
and, most importantly, meet makers and discuss
shared interests with the exhibiting makers and
one another. I also attended the preceding Maker
Con, which was a two-day event with lectures
and panel discussions that went more in-depth on
the topics of new technology, building the
community, adding “making” to school
curriculum and how to make the transition from
hobbyist to start-up to production company.
There were a number of announcements of
interest to model makers such as the new Dremel
and Arduino 3D printers, Ultimaker expanding
into the US, simplified “Easel” software to run a
Shapeoke “3D Carving Machine” (CNC mill) from
Inventables, AutoDesk Fusion 360 released for
Mac, and Hasbro licensing intellectual property to
Shapeways.
I learned MIT and other schools have started
accepting “Maker” portfolios in the admissions
process. If your work involves electronics,
littleBits has started crowdsourcing their module
(dreamBit) development through “bitLabs” and
will pay for those they use. Raspberry Pi and Intel
are both collaborating with Arduino on chip or
board development for the DIY community.
The country is turning back toward local
production. National and local governments and
other organizations are supporting the Maker
Movement everywhere. There was a Maker Faire
at the White House in June. (Our keynote speaker
There were so many 3D printers, it takes a village…
Obligatory picture of Local Motors’ car, which took 44 hours to print.
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world maker faire
16’ tall! PartDaddy 4’ cubed Ulti-Replicator 2 Too far!
You can see how some makers are really pushing the boundaries.
The “W.Afate” 3D printer, above, was
made at a cost of less than $100 entirely from e-waste from the West,
tons of which is dumped in Togo and other African countries
every year.
from the APMM Boston Conference 2010, Neil
Gershenfeld, was there explaining the MIT FabLab
project.) Makerspaces are popping up all over the
place. The maker community offers business
opportunities for APMM members. A few of the
presenters encouraged attendees who are involved
in starting up a production company to have all of
their prototyping and production done in China.
I think there’s an opportunity here for your shop to
get some of that business from your local maker
community and also possibly outsource some of
your work to them. Perhaps you might even recruit
potential workers for your shop. So I encourage you
to find a makerspace near you and see what you
can accomplish together.
But not as far as the makers in Togo!
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The maker movement may be new but they still appreciate the classics…
Cornell University Legos
Robot making activities
ShopBot portable CNC router
…while looking toward the future.
Links:
http://makerfaire.com/highlights/ Maker Faire highlights
http://themakermap.com/ where the makerspaces are
http://www.whitehouse.gov/maker-faire Nation of Makers
http://www.shopbottools.com/mApplications/handibot.htm portable CNC
http://www.redantlasers.com/ portable laser
littleBits announces bitLabs you can design and have your own electronic components made
http://www.shapeways.com/discover/superfanart Shapeways and Hasbro partnership
https://localmotors.com/ Local Motors 3D printed car
http://makerfaire.com/makers/ulti-replicator-2/ 4’ cubed printer
http://makezine.com/2014/07/26/the-partdaddy-162-delta-printer/ 16’ tall printer
African e-waste 3D printer W.Afate
I always struggle when I sit down
to write a newsletter article. It’s
amazing what I can get done in
the hours procrastinating before I
finally give in and do it. The small
project I’ve put off for months
suddenly takes top priority but is
soon complete in a short amount
of time. I don’t know if it’s a
Model Maker thing or not, but we
as a group seem to have an
amazing ability to put off work until the pressure
is on. Then, seemingly effortlessly, we pull off a
job with great results.
So all you procrastinators, gather round. I have a
task for you and you’re not going to like it. I
figure I’ll introduce the idea to you, and let it
stew and weigh on your minds. What could I be
talking about, you’re thinking? Has he been
drinking?
Well it’s time to start thinking about the 2016
APMM conference. Well “that’s not so bad,” you
might say. I thought he said I wouldn’t like this. “I like going to the conference,” you say. “I learn
things at the conference”, “I renew friendships
and meet new people”, “I find out what the latest
techniques in Model Making are!” “Why would
thinking about the next conference be a bad
thing?” What I’m trying to get at is this: you need
to start thinking about how you’re
going to get to the 2016 APMM
conference.
We are now in the early stages of
conference planning and have been
thinking about YOU. We want you
there! We have brainstormed,
surveyed, conference-called, and
looked at the data from all the past
conferences, all with the goal of
getting you to come to the conference. We have
some new ideas about what the conference
should be, how we can make it less expensive,
and where and when to have it, but what we
need most is you! We need your participation,
your input, your expertise, your spirit. It all
comes down to you being there.
Many of the bigger shops have the ability to send
several people. I’ve talked with some of the
decision makers from those shops and for them it
comes down to developing their employees. The
value of learning and applying what you’ve
learned is substantial. Yet developing people
does not just happen in big shops, it happens in
all shops. It’s important for everyone. If larger
shops value the conference enough to send their
people, then a shop of any size could also gain
that competitive edge.
So how do we get smaller one and two person
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shops to come? I think it all boils down to
planning, and that’s why I’m writing this now. Get with your boss and say, ”I’d like to go to the
APMM conference. What steps can we take now
so I can go?” If you own a company and usually
go, how about bringing one or two of your
employees as well? I think the results can be quite
dramatic. The opportunities for growth and
development can be realized by attending the
conference.
We will soon be making the announcement of
where we are going to hold the 2016 conference.
There is plenty of time to plan and budget so this
is one time when procrastinating isn’t going to
help. If you want to go, start planning now.
I look forward to seeing you there.
Pete Mack, APMM President
APMM Board Discusses Changes
to Conference Structure
The APMM board is discussing possible
changes to future conferences. The
changes being considered will make
conferences bigger, better and more
affordable. Some of the ideas include:
- one tour day on Friday rather than Friday and Monday
- keynote dinner and lunches offsite rather than at the host hotel
- breakfast galas rather than Saturday keynote dinner
- multiple keynote speakers
- sliding scale fee structure based on size of company
- utilization of peerology and idea networking
- vendor demonstrations
If you have any thoughts about these
ideas or have some of your own, please
contact Pete at [email protected].
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We need your participation, your
input, your expertise, your spirit. It all
comes down to you being there.
announcements
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In this issue you may notice some
changes to the newsletter. That’s
because it’s gone through a
redesign. New headers, footers
and a new font for body text and
captions. Make way Palatino for
Optima and Futura. You won’t find
any more “continued” boxes at
the end of a page. And as in many
printed magazines, the headlines
will be of various fonts. Creativity
reigns supreme!
Thanks for reading the newsletter.
Sue Wellman, Editor
V.P. of Communications
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A New Look!
When asked what she does for a living Tanya
Schroder replies, “I make things. I help bring ideas
to life.” For the last 25 years Tanya has been a
model maker. The last seventeen of those years
have been spent at Nike, Inc.
Her first job in the field of model making was in
1987 at Pure Forms in Portland, Oregon. Pure
Forms made parts for Soloflex and Universal
weight machines and for medical equipment. At Pure Forms, Tanya was lucky to have Russ
Darmour as her boss. He acted as a mentor,
teaching her how to make molds and
encouraging her to learn as much as she could.
She started out repairing and trimming parts and
then moved into production. From there she
went on to building patterns and molds for the
production of polyurethane foam molding.
Tanya took some time off in 1995 to have her
second child. While she was away, Pure Forms
went out of business.
Russ suggested Tanya work for his friend who had
a freelance model making business. That’s where
she discovered that she loved model making -
shoe models, in particular. “I discovered I really
liked model making. It’s the perfect balance of
technical, which I was already doing, and artistic,
which I really like doing.”
In 1997, Tanya was hired to work in the Model
Shop at Nike, Inc. It was all hand modeling in the
women in model making
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Meet one of APMM’s Own
Tanya SchroderNike, Inc.
Submitted by Audrey Farrell, Nike, Inc.
women in model makingearly years. Shoe components were
built using clay, or wood and
Bondo, or rigid urethane. She built
some of the Jordan Signature shoes,
starting with the 14.
Eventually components were made
digitally, integrating printed parts
into clay and wood models. “I
resisted digital for many years
because I loved building things by
hand,” Tanya said. “But once I
learned to use the tools, I could make things
faster. I realized digital was a powerful tool to
have in the toolbox.”
Tanya does most work digitally now, scanning in
3D and building digital models. Tanya also works
with composites, making carbon fiber parts. Some
casting and molding is still done, and she says her
favorite thing to do is to cast people’s feet. Over
the years, she has cast the feet of dozens of Nike
athletes.
Tanya has learned all of her skills on the job, “by
doing”, she said. “By making mistakes, trial and
error, and learning from mentors.” Tanya also
gained a lot from going to APMM conferences.
“After starting at Nike, I began going to APMM
conferences (Seattle 1998) and discovered there
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Tanya uses FreeForm to model digitally.
Some of Tonya’s models
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are all kinds of other crazy people who do this
too, and make all kinds of things in all kinds of
ways, and I really liked that. APMM is a
community of like minds with similar interests.
I’m not the only weird kid out there! I learned so
much from going to the conferences and being on
the MILE.”
Tanya’s advice to young women starting out in
the field is to “Just focus on the work. Don’t
worry about your gender, although sometimes
you have to work harder to prove yourself. Focus on the work, have fun, and do what you
love. Find mentors. Everybody has something to teach you.”
Tanya, at far left, works with a team of Nike people designing and building a sand sculpture for the annual Hood to Coast Race that finishes in Seaside, Oregon every year for the past 5 years. This year, the team shoveled, packed and sculpted 12 tons of sand to create a 6 foot sand sculpture. Fellow APMM member Audrey Farrell is to her right in the pink jacket.
Submitted by Bruce Willey
You can call it “The Digital Age” or “The Third
Industrial Revolution” or “The (Approaching)
Technological Singularity” or, like the authors,
“The Second Machine Age”. The element all
these concepts share is the transformative
effect of the increasing capability of computer
technology. This book was written because the
authors noticed surprising increases in the
capabilities of devices and systems due to
rapid improvements in computer hardware,
software and communications networks over
the last few years (2006-2011). Their examples
include the Google driverless car, Watson
beating human champions at “Jeopardy!”, real-
time voice interaction with devices such as
“Siri”, robots that can be taught by manually
guiding their appendages rather than writing
programs, accurate language translation by
computers and the increasing sophistication of
manufacturing techniques including 3D
Printing. They believe we are on the verge of
an episode of significant changes to human
society similar to that which occurred during
the Industrial Revolution, which they refer to as
the First Machine Age. So, as the Industrial
Revolution utterly transformed the world over
the course of 200 years, this revolution that we
are 50 years in to will bring about an equally
momentous transformation.
This new revolution is happening because
computer processing power, sensor technology
TITLE: THE SECOND MACHINE AGE: WORK, PROGRESS AND PROSPERITY IN A
TIME OF BRILLIANT TECHNOLOGIES
AUTHOR: Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee
PUBLISHER: W.W. Norton & Company
PUBLICATION DATE: 2014
FORMAT: Hardcover, 306 pages
ISBN: 978-0-393-23935-5
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and interconnectedness among people and
computers have been doubling roughly every
18 months for decades. The authors expect
this to continue and assert that giving more
and more people access to better, cheaper
and faster technology will spur innovation
and bring about advances that are “the stuff
of science fiction” or “straight out of science
fiction” (a couple of phrases they are very
fond of and use frequently).
The book is divided into three sections.
The first describes the characteristics of the
Second Machine Age; the second explains
how both “bounty” (access to goods and
services) and “spread” (disparity between
advantaged and disadvantaged people and
populations) would increase; and the third
gives recommendations for individuals and
organizations that would maximize bounty
and minimize the impact of spread.
The book is very readable. The authors use
many interesting anecdotes to illustrate their
points. For example, the first 1.8 teraflop
calculations were performed by a $55 million
government lab supercomputer called ASCI
Red in 1997 to simulate a nuclear explosion.
Nine years later 1.8 teraflop calculations were
performed to simulate a nuclear explosion for
video gaming on a $500 Sony PlayStation 3.
Many other examples touch on how improved
computer-enabled connectivity among people
can bring new insight to finding solutions
(InnoCentive) and gleaning useful information
for individuals by manipulating the data
generated by many people (Waze). As they
put it; “What This Problem Needs Are More
Eyeballs and Bigger Computers”.
The authors bring useful perspectives to issues
like the disparity in employment among
various groups. While demand is generally
higher for people doing cognitive work
compared to those doing manual work, they
show that having a job performing non-
routine manual work (like personal care,
gourmet cooking and model making!) is better
than a job performing routine cognitive work
since computers are learning these quickly,
causing a decreased demand for these types
of jobs.
After the glowing talk of the coming bounty
and the cautionary tales of the impending
spread, the authors list recommendations for the short-term and long-term that they believe
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They postulate a society of
increased leisure, passion-driven
livelihoods and greater value on human-provided goods and services.
will help make sure these changes bring about the
greatest benefit to the most. There is a mixture of
ideas here, such as “support entrepreneurship”, and
“rebuild infrastructure”. In the long term they
entrepreneurship”, and “rebuild infrastructure”. In
the long term they recognize that it won’t take as
many people to do all the necessary work and some
provision must be made to prevent the development
of an unemployed underclass. They postulate a
society of increased leisure, passion-driven
livelihoods and greater value on human-provided
goods and services.
All of the evidence in this book indicates to me that
a profession like ours, where we collaborate closely
with our customers to create something of value for
them using a combination of technological skills
and aesthetic sense, is actually a model of how most
things will be produced and how many, many more
people will make a meaningful living in the future.
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book review
Have you read a good book lately? If so, consider writing a review and share your thoughts with your fellow model makers.
It can be as long or as short as you like.
Contact Sue Wellman at [email protected].
member news
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Congratulations to Nicole
Singson (Ziedses des Plantes)
of Bell Helmets. She and her
husband Jeffrey had their first
baby on July 3, 2014. Tatum
Alice Singson weighed 7 lbs.
10 oz. and was 19 inches
long. Nicole reports that “We
made a silicone mold of her
foot that will make some
great Christmas ornaments
for family members later on.”
Congratulations to Nacho Mendez of IDEO, and his wife
Michelle. They had their first baby, a little girl, on
October 17, 2014 at 8:02 am. Her name is Emma Tola
Mendez. She weighed 6 lbs. 11 oz. and was 18 inches
long. Nacho says it is fantastic being a dad and that both
Emma and Michelle are doing great.
This article was taken from Inside3DP, from their
latest series, 5 Fast Ones on 3D Printing. Industry
leaders and 3D printing experts were asked for
their thoughts on where the industry is headed.
These are the comments of Preet Jesrani, founder
of DesignBox3D.
1. What do you think the main 3D printing event
or advancement in 2016 will be?
HP has already announced that their additive
manufacturing rollout will begin in 2016. I expect
that market leaders at both the low and high end
will time their new product announcements and
breakthroughs at around the same time, if not
sooner. HP’s recent announcement in my opinion
will spur other industry leaders to enter the market
and will jumpstart the mainstreaming of additive
manufacturing.
2. Which industry stands to benefit the most?
End users in the design, prototyping,
manufacturing, defense, education, small business
(to name a few) will benefit as they will now have
options offered by companies that have the depth
of experience necessary to deliver well designed
and solidly built technology solutions. The
manufacturing cost advantages of large scale
production have so far not been part of the
equation, but they soon will be.
3. Do you own a 3D printer? If so, which one?
We have several here – we like many of them but
with a handful of notable exceptions, none is
perfect. On the FDM side, we like what our
friends at Type A Machines have done with their
Series1. A rugged, elegant design with quality
components make their machines our benchmark
in evaluating machines from other manufacturers.
4. What’s the most creative use of 3D printing
you’ve seen?
I have long believed that the costs associated with
prosthetics have been prohibitively high and 3D
printing is game-changing in that respect. I admire
what Enable is doing with crowdsourcing 3D
printed prosthetic limbs.This is not only the most
creative use, but also the one that does the most
social good.
5. What do you think are the biggest obstacles
facing 3D printing technology?
If one looked at mainstreaming 3D printing
technology (FDM or SLA), the biggest obstacles are
1) Reliability 2) Ease of use – this has to be
simplified with a beginner in mind 3) Speed 4)
Printable parts – if manufacturers of “everyday”
products started to offer downloadable part files
that could be printed at home, we would start to
see faster adoption on the consumer end. I think
the obstacles vary based on the market segment.
A 3D printing expert looks ahead…3D printing innovations: 5 fast ones on 3D printing
industry news
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industry news
By Stephen Moore of Inside 3DP Share 3D printers operating on the fused layer
deposition (FLD) principle are fed with plastic
filament to generate objects. But as is the case
with the traditional 2D ink jet printer, cartridges
tend to be costly. Now, a Columbus-based startup
is planning to transform the status quo with a new
type of printer that can operate using standard
plastic pellets fed from a continuously fillable
hopper. The David 3D printer
from Sculptify http://sculptify.com/pages/david
(Columbus, OH) utilizes fused
layer extrusion (FLEX)
technology to create objects
from a wide range of pelletized
materials including polylactide
(PLA), thermoplastic
polyurethane (TPU), ethylene
vinyl acetate (EVA), and ABS.
According to Sculptify, the 1-kg bags of PLA pellets
optimized for use with David
will ship for $18, whereas a 1-kg
spool of plastic normally costs
roughly $48.
Sculptify is currently optimizing HIPS, HDPE,
polyamide (PA), polycarbonate (PC) and wood
composite. Sculptify notes that users do not need
to buy pellets from its website since they are
widely available and can be found on many 3D
printing and plastic supply websites in varying
types and sizes. However, there are some that
simply won't work with the system. Pellets will
also be available through the Sculptify store.
"David provides customers with the freedom to
choose from an extensive selection of materials -
which range from hard and durable to soft and
flexible. By eliminating the dependence on
filament, Sculptify can offer exotic materials and
composites never before used in 3D printing,"
said Luke Daniel, Director of
Business Development.
David possesses a build
volume of 20 x 22 x 18.5 cm,
with nozzle sizes of 0.3 mm,
0.4 mm and 0.5 mm
included. Layer resolution in
the case of PLA is 20
microns. Positioning
precision is reportedly 8
microns or better in the XY
axis and 3 microns or better
in the Z axis direction.
David features both groundbreaking technology
and commercial-grade components, all
specifically designed to provide versatility, speed,
and accuracy.
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3D PRINTING WITH STANDARD PLASTIC PELLETS