< 3D Printing

Origins

In 1982 modern 3D Printing was devised by Dr. Hideo Kodama.[1]

In Charles Hull invented sterolithography in 1984.[2] Scott Crump would invent FDM (FFF) printing in 1989.[3]

Starting in 2004 the Open Source Rep Rap project resulted in a number of derivative commercial printers being made that were more affordable then previous offerings.[4][5]

Adoption

The then cheap and open source 3D printers offered by Makerbot caught the public imagination around 2010.[6][7] In 2012 Makerbot stopped open sourcing hardware and soon was acquired by Stratasys, where it would soon cease manufacturing their own printers in 2016.[8][9][10]

The 3D printer market contracted a bit in 2015.[11][12] Budget Creality printers became popular during this time.[13]

In the 2010's, both LulzBot and Prusa operated their own commercial scale printer farms to produce parts for their commercial 3D Printers.[14][15]

In 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, makes used tools like 3D printers to produce millions of PPE parts while supply lines were disrupted.[16][17]

References

  1. ↑ "What You Need to Know About 3D Printing". http://ott.ua.edu/what-you-need-to-know-about-3d-printing/.
  2. ↑ "History of 3D Printing Makerspace". https://blogs.lawrence.edu/makerspace/history/.
  3. ↑ "Closing the Loop On 3D Printing". 30 November 2017. https://www.library.ucsf.edu/news/closing-the-loop-on-3d-printing/.
  4. ↑ "Materializing information: 3D printing and social change". https://journals.uic.edu/ojs/index.php/fm/article/download/3968/3273.
  5. ↑ "The Brutal Edit War Over a 3D Printer’s Wikipedia Page" (in en). https://www.vice.com/en/article/53d9vk/the-brutal-edit-war-over-a-3d-printers-wikipedia-page-reprap.
  6. ↑ "Making the Makerbot, A DIY 3-D Printer" (in en). https://www.popsci.com/diy/article/2010-06/making-makerbot/.
  7. ↑ Simonite, Tom. "Rise of the replicators". https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20627621-200-rise-of-the-replicators/.
  8. ↑ Brown, Rich. "Pulling back from open source hardware, MakerBot angers some adherents" (in en). https://www.cnet.com/news/pulling-back-from-open-source-hardware-makerbot-angers-some-adherents/.
  9. ↑ Sharma, Rakesh. "The Real Reason Stratasys Bought MakerBot" (in en). https://www.forbes.com/sites/rakeshsharma/2013/09/24/stratasys-bold-moves-a-conversation-with-company-chairman-scott-crump/?sh=260433db1ce7.
  10. ↑ "The MakerBot Obituary". 28 April 2016. https://hackaday.com/2016/04/28/the-makerbot-obituary/.
  11. ↑ "People Aren’t Buying 3D Printers Anymore, So Companies Are Refocusing on Health" (in en). https://www.vice.com/en/article/qkv7km/people-arent-buying-3d-printers-anymore-so-companies-are-refocusing-on-health.
  12. ↑ "MakerBot lays off 20% of its staff—again" (in en). https://fortune.com/2015/10/08/makerbot-lays-off-20-percent-of-staff-again/.
  13. ↑ "Creality Ender 3 vs CR-10: The Differences" (in en). 15 July 2019. https://all3dp.com/2/creality-ender-3-vs-cr-10-3d-printer-shootout/.
  14. ↑ "The 3D Printers that Print 3D Printers" (in en). https://www.vice.com/en/article/539e93/the-3d-printers-that-print-3d-printers.
  15. ↑ "Three hundred 3D printers in one room: A quick look to our printing farm". 9 February 2018. https://blog.prusaprinters.org/a-quick-look-to-our-printing-farm_7474/.
  16. ↑ Commissioner, Office of the (13 November 2020). "3D Printing in FDA’s Rapid Response to COVID-19" (in en). https://www.fda.gov/emergency-preparedness-and-response/coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19/3d-printing-fdas-rapid-response-covid-19.
  17. ↑ Choong, Yu Ying Clarrisa; Tan, Hong Wei; Patel, Deven C.; Choong, Wan Ting Natalie; Chen, Chun-Hsien; Low, Hong Yee; Tan, Ming Jen; Patel, Chandrakant D. et al. (September 2020). "The global rise of 3D printing during the COVID-19 pandemic" (in en). pp. 637–639. doi:10.1038/s41578-020-00234-3. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41578-020-00234-3.

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