My friends at Formlabs have launched a Formlabs Covid-19 Network and are working on numerous 3D printable solutions for the crisis. As of this morning, 800 people have already signed up to participate. My premise around 3D printers when we made our first investment in 2010 in MakerBot was that ultimately everyone would want a 3D printer on their desktop. I thought this was especially true in prototyping, experimentation, and emergency situations. ...
In the super cool thing category, it’s always fun to see two companies we are investors in easily put together a demonstration of the integration of their products. Oblong is a master of spatially interacting with 3D data on a 2D display . Looking Glass lets you interact with 3D data in a 3D display with their product (the Looking Glass .) Together, you can move and interact with 3D images on either a 3D display or a 2D display. ...
Formlabs Digital Factory is happening on May 7th, 2019. If you are into 3D printers, this is shaping up to be a key event of 2019. The speaker list is epic and one you don’t want to miss. Yeah – there’s more … Formlabs also recently released two new printers – the Form 3 and the Form 3L . The Form 3 is impressive on its own, but the Form 3L is five times the build platform and double the laser power. ...
We just led a $35 million financing at Formlabs . In case you were wondering, lasers are super cool . In 2010, when we invested in MakerBot, the maker movement was just beginning . While 3D printing technology had been around for 30 years, there were no desktop 3D printers. The concept of using an additive process for 3D printing, where you built up a 3D object from continuous extrusion of a material such as ABS or PLA (plastics) was well understood. But this technology had not been brought to the desktop at a $2,000 price point. MakerBot did that and created an entirely new market segment within the 3D printing industry. ...