![]() ![]() ![]() Around the world the number of startups multiplied rapidly. In 2015 Carbon3D, a spinoff of the University of North Carolina that had relocated to Redwood City, unveiled a 3D printing process named Continuous Liquid Interface Production (CLIP), a kind of liquid-based stereolithography (SLA), that improved the printing speed. serial entrepreneur Bill Gross) and funded on IndieGoGo, introduced a 3D printer for the home and school market, the MOD-t (another FDM printer). In 2014 New Matter, started in Los Angeles by Caltech scientist Steve Schell under the aegis of incubator Idealab (i.e. In 2013 Formlabs (an MIT-spinoff founded by Maxim Lobovsky, Natan Linder and David Cranor) introduced a stereolithography 3D printer for the desktop. In 2013 WobbleWorks, founded in 2010 in San Jose by MIT Media Lab's alumnus Peter Dilworth and Maxwell Bogue, launched the 3Doodler, a 3D printing pen based on FDM that allowed users to create objects in mid-air. Finally, the Bay Area started paying attention. Patents for SLA and SLS technologies expired in 2014, and caused a similar gold rush in 3D printing. When a major Stratasys patent related to the FDM technique expired in 2009, FDM went open-source, and hundreds of FDM machines flooded the market. After the open-source RepRap started, several startups launched kits so that individuals could create their own RepRap 3D printer in the garage. Until 2009 it was difficult for anyone, except the original companies, to make 3D printers. The field had certainly been hampered by the multitude of patents. The decade finally witnessed the long-overdue boom of 3D printing technology. The 2010s saw some consolidation in the field of 3D printers: Stratasys acquired Objet in 2011 and MakerBot in 2013 and 3D Systems, that had already acquired DTM in 2001, acquired BitsFromBytes in 2010 and Z Corp in 2012. The Selfies (2011-16) click here for the other sections of this chapter 3D Printing ![]()
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