Hackaday: I admit that I’m late to the 3D printing game. While I just picked up my first printer in 2018, the rest of us have been oozing out beautiful prints for over a decade. And in that time we’ve seen many people reimagine the hardware for mischief besides just printing plastic. That decade of hacks got me thinking: what if the killer-app of 3D printing isn’t the printing? What if it’s programmable motion? With that, I wondered: what if we had a machine that just offered us motion capabilities? What if extending those motion capabilities was a first class feature? What if we had a machine that was meant to be hacked?
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The world of 3D printing and the open source community are brilliant. I think this is a brilliant machine, and I love that only three of the parts need to be machined and that most of the little parts can be printed or bought on the cheap. I think that the “fabricatability” that Joshua Vasquez defines as a part of his “new narrative” is essentially just accessibility. The goal of the open source community is to spread knowledge, creativity, and making amongst people and to freely share resources so that everyone can have the same access to this knowledge. To me, “design’s ability to be fabricated by a single person without specialized tools and expert knowledge.” is just an extension of the accessible culture that the open source community already tries to foster. I admire that Vasquez has defined this new term, because it seems trendy and perhaps it will catch on in the larger community, but I do not think that this is a new concept to the world of 3D printers and other makers.
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