Comments on: Exclusive: Zach Hoeken on leaving MakerBot and his future.

By: END OF OPENSOURCE? [updated] > > > | D I M E N S I O N E X T

END OF OPENSOURCE? [updated] > > > | D I M E N S I O N E X T — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 16:21:03 +0000

[...] a result, I have zero transparency into the internal workings of the company that I founded. See this article by Chris Thompson for more infomation.I do not support any move that restricts the open nature of [...]

By: THE END OF OPENSOURCE? > > > | D I M E N S I O N E X T

THE END OF OPENSOURCE? > > > | D I M E N S I O N E X T — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 14:18:43 +0000

[...] a result, I have zero transparency into the internal workings of the company that I founded. See this article by Chris Thompson for more [...]

By: Mitch

Mitch — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 03:23:12 +0000

I live in Shenzhen, and met Zach one day for lunch. I do believe I’m the one who told him about the Digikey trick.

The secret is that all of Digikey’s product pages are dual language. Change two small things in the URL and you can print out the product page in Chinese. You can then wave that around in the market. Me, I print out both the Chinese and English on the same side, rotated 180 degrees from each other. Then I can plonk it on the counter of a stall and we can both read it and work out where we’re going.

The details on the Digikey sheet become the spec that the supplier has to meet. Doesn’t have to be same brand, but it does have to meet the specs.

Works well.

By: MP | piracy makes everything better

MP | piracy makes everything better — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 02:12:37 +0000

[...] personal experience I can tell you that working with friends in the professional world can be very difficult. Unless you can separate business out from the friendship you very likely will lose a friend [...]

By: La traición de Makerbot, hoy puede ser un mal día para el Open Hardware | Jon Bengoetxea

Fri, 21 Sep 2012 13:49:25 +0000

[...] de ello, no tengo ni idea del funcionamiento interno actual de la empresa que fundé. Consulta este artículo de Chris Thompson para más [...]

By: MakerBot and Open Source – A Founder Perspective

MakerBot and Open Source – A Founder Perspective — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 02:35:23 +0000

[...] As a result, I have zero transparency into the internal workings of the company that I founded. See this article by Chris Thompson for more [...]

By: robert

robert — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 20:50:50 +0000

“I thought I was going to be working there for the rest of my life.”

That’s a tough one. Been there done that, but you’ve got to let go and move on. If you don’t it will kill you.

By: eagleapex

eagleapex — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 22:26:24 +0000

True, but you can’t extrude PLA with a PLA extruder. It was a temp thing/

By: Regulus

Regulus — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 22:24:28 +0000

>> You’ll never be able to extrude the metal parts of an extruder.
Never say never.
You can certainly extrude metals, and the science of changing the properties of one structure into another is not magic.

By: Emmanuel

Emmanuel — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 21:38:21 +0000

This is a nice piece of history, thanks for the post.

(I must said I had the same conclusion about replicating labs, some peoples want to make 2-in-1 cnc-reprap, but it’s more resilient/practical to rely on an ecosystem of manufacturing)