Massimo Banzi (Arduino)
Professor, interaction designer, software architect: Massimo Banzi wears many hats, but perhaps more than anything else, Massimo is one of the visionaries behind the open-source Arduino project. In 2005, Banzi and co-founder David Cuartielles spotted an opportunity to create easy-to-use, versatile and open-source microcontrollers –geared towards designers, artists, students, and hobbyists. Arduino’s popularity continues expanding at a breakneck pace, further boosted by its usage in many 3d printers.Apart from Arduino, Massimo currently teaches Interaction Design at SUPSI Lugano in Switzerland, and is a regular contributor to the Italian Wired Magazine. In the past, he founded Italy’s first FabLab in Torino, and served as CTO for the incubator, Seat Ventures.
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Sam Cervantes (Solidoodle)
Sam Cervantes, the former COO at Makerbot, founded Solidoodle, LLC. in late 2011 to fulfill the growing demand for affordable, high-quality 3D printers. Solidoodle was chosen among CNET’s “Best of NY Tech Day 2012” from more than 200 tech
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Terry Wohlers (Wohlers Associates)
With a deep passion and encylopedic knowledge, Terry Wohlers is arguably the foremost expert in additive manufacturing and 3d-printing.In the past 30 years, Dr. Wohlers’ has written over 400 publications, provided consulting for more than 190
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David ten Have (Ponoko)
With its pioneering distributed and on-demand manufacturing model, online "making" service Ponoko has brought digital fabrication into the Information Age. Ever since its public debut at TechCrunch 40 in 2007, co-founders David ten Have and Derek
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Janne Kyttanen (FOC)
Ever since the beta launch of 3D Systems’ web service Cubify at CES 2012, Freedom of Creation has been on board as a creative partner. Freedom of Creation—a 3D printing research and design firm—maintains a global network of fresh 3D design
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Clement Moreau (Sculpteo)
With their easy-to-use online 3D printing service, Sculpteo has made 3D printing available to anyone with an idea and an Internet connection. Ever since they launched this cloud-based service for the public in January of 2011, they have helped
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