World Maker Faire and Maker Con NYC

an APMM report

CONTENTS

PAGE 1 WORLD MAKER FAIRE

PAGE 5 PRESIDENT’S LETTER

PAGE 7 ANNOUNCEMENTS

PAGE 8 WOMEN IN MODEL MAKING: TANYA SCHRODER,NIKE, INC.

PAGE 11 BOOK REVIEWThe Second Machine Age: Work, Progress and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies

PAGE 14 MEMBER NEWS

PAGE 15 INDUSTRY NEWS

APMM newsletterFALL 2014

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Submitted by Bruce Willey

If the APMM is made up of 5-star restaurant chefs (and you know it is!),

then the maker community is for everyone who is interested in cooking.

Like us, many makers create physical objects in a shop setting using a wide

variety of skills and tools. Like the APMM, the maker community strives to

gain access to better technology and methods, recruit new members, as

well as leverage their numbers with providers. They also get together

occasionally to learn and share what they know. In September, more than

700 makers from dozens of countries gathered to exhibit at the 5th annual

“World Maker Faire” in New York City.

After the makers had set up at the New York Hall of Science, tens of

thousands of adults and

children came to the “Greatest

Show & Tell On Earth”, where

they could learn how to

fabricate, sew and code; make

and fly planes and rockets;

design robots and games; make

up new beverages; watch DIY

cars race and DIY drones fight;

and see new tools like the

latest 3D printers, portable

versions of CNC routers and Start ‘em while they’re young

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laser cutters and other cool stuff. They could

attend lectures and workshops on funding start-

ups or navigating patent law or getting work with

NASA, or the healthcare, consumer electronics or

automotive industries. Of course they also got to

explore starting and financing for-profit

makerspaces and NFP’s in schools and libraries,

etc. They could buy amazing equipment and toys

and, most importantly, meet makers and discuss

shared interests with the exhibiting makers and

one another. I also attended the preceding Maker

Con, which was a two-day event with lectures

and panel discussions that went more in-depth on

the topics of new technology, building the

community, adding “making” to school

curriculum and how to make the transition from

hobbyist to start-up to production company.

There were a number of announcements of

interest to model makers such as the new Dremel

and Arduino 3D printers, Ultimaker expanding

into the US, simplified “Easel” software to run a

Shapeoke “3D Carving Machine” (CNC mill) from

Inventables, AutoDesk Fusion 360 released for

Mac, and Hasbro licensing intellectual property to

Shapeways.

I learned MIT and other schools have started

accepting “Maker” portfolios in the admissions

process. If your work involves electronics,

littleBits has started crowdsourcing their module

(dreamBit) development through “bitLabs” and

will pay for those they use. Raspberry Pi and Intel

are both collaborating with Arduino on chip or

board development for the DIY community.

The country is turning back toward local

production. National and local governments and

other organizations are supporting the Maker

Movement everywhere. There was a Maker Faire

at the White House in June. (Our keynote speaker

There were so many 3D printers, it takes a village…

Obligatory picture of Local Motors’ car, which took 44 hours to print.

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world maker faire

16’ tall! PartDaddy 4’ cubed Ulti-Replicator 2 Too far!

You can see how some makers are really pushing the boundaries.

The “W.Afate” 3D printer, above, was

made at a cost of less than $100 entirely from e-waste from the West,

tons of which is dumped in Togo and other African countries

every year.

from the APMM Boston Conference 2010, Neil

Gershenfeld, was there explaining the MIT FabLab

project.) Makerspaces are popping up all over the

place. The maker community offers business

opportunities for APMM members. A few of the

presenters encouraged attendees who are involved

in starting up a production company to have all of

their prototyping and production done in China.

I think there’s an opportunity here for your shop to

get some of that business from your local maker

community and also possibly outsource some of

your work to them. Perhaps you might even recruit

potential workers for your shop. So I encourage you

to find a makerspace near you and see what you

can accomplish together.

But not as far as the makers in Togo!

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The maker movement may be new but they still appreciate the classics…

Cornell University Legos

Robot making activities

ShopBot portable CNC router

…while looking toward the future.

Links:

http://makerfaire.com/highlights/ Maker Faire highlights

http://themakermap.com/ where the makerspaces are

http://www.whitehouse.gov/maker-faire Nation of Makers

http://www.shopbottools.com/mApplications/handibot.htm portable CNC

http://www.redantlasers.com/ portable laser

littleBits announces bitLabs you can design and have your own electronic components made

http://www.shapeways.com/discover/superfanart Shapeways and Hasbro partnership

https://localmotors.com/ Local Motors 3D printed car

http://makerfaire.com/makers/ulti-replicator-2/ 4’ cubed printer

http://makezine.com/2014/07/26/the-partdaddy-162-delta-printer/ 16’ tall printer

African e-waste 3D printer W.Afate

I always struggle when I sit down

to write a newsletter article. It’s

amazing what I can get done in

the hours procrastinating before I

finally give in and do it. The small

project I’ve put off for months

suddenly takes top priority but is

soon complete in a short amount

of time. I don’t know if it’s a

Model Maker thing or not, but we

as a group seem to have an

amazing ability to put off work until the pressure

is on. Then, seemingly effortlessly, we pull off a

job with great results.

So all you procrastinators, gather round. I have a

task for you and you’re not going to like it. I

figure I’ll introduce the idea to you, and let it

stew and weigh on your minds. What could I be

talking about, you’re thinking? Has he been

drinking?

Well it’s time to start thinking about the 2016

APMM conference. Well “that’s not so bad,” you

might say. I thought he said I wouldn’t like this. “I like going to the conference,” you say. “I learn

things at the conference”, “I renew friendships

and meet new people”, “I find out what the latest

techniques in Model Making are!” “Why would

thinking about the next conference be a bad

thing?” What I’m trying to get at is this: you need

to start thinking about how you’re

going to get to the 2016 APMM

conference.

We are now in the early stages of

conference planning and have been

thinking about YOU. We want you

there! We have brainstormed,

surveyed, conference-called, and

looked at the data from all the past

conferences, all with the goal of

getting you to come to the conference. We have

some new ideas about what the conference

should be, how we can make it less expensive,

and where and when to have it, but what we

need most is you! We need your participation,

your input, your expertise, your spirit. It all

comes down to you being there.

Many of the bigger shops have the ability to send

several people. I’ve talked with some of the

decision makers from those shops and for them it

comes down to developing their employees. The

value of learning and applying what you’ve

learned is substantial. Yet developing people

does not just happen in big shops, it happens in

all shops. It’s important for everyone. If larger

shops value the conference enough to send their

people, then a shop of any size could also gain

that competitive edge.

So how do we get smaller one and two person

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shops to come? I think it all boils down to

planning, and that’s why I’m writing this now. Get with your boss and say, ”I’d like to go to the

APMM conference. What steps can we take now

so I can go?” If you own a company and usually

go, how about bringing one or two of your

employees as well? I think the results can be quite

dramatic. The opportunities for growth and

development can be realized by attending the

conference.

We will soon be making the announcement of

where we are going to hold the 2016 conference.

There is plenty of time to plan and budget so this

is one time when procrastinating isn’t going to

help. If you want to go, start planning now.

I look forward to seeing you there.

Pete Mack, APMM President

APMM Board Discusses Changes

to Conference Structure

The APMM board is discussing possible

changes to future conferences. The

changes being considered will make

conferences bigger, better and more

affordable. Some of the ideas include:

- one tour day on Friday rather than Friday and Monday

- keynote dinner and lunches offsite rather than at the host hotel

- breakfast galas rather than Saturday keynote dinner

- multiple keynote speakers

- sliding scale fee structure based on size of company

- utilization of peerology and idea networking

- vendor demonstrations

If you have any thoughts about these

ideas or have some of your own, please

contact Pete at PMACK@steelcase.com.

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We need your participation, your

input, your expertise, your spirit. It all

comes down to you being there.

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In this issue you may notice some

changes to the newsletter. That’s

because it’s gone through a

redesign. New headers, footers

and a new font for body text and

captions. Make way Palatino for

Optima and Futura. You won’t find

any more “continued” boxes at

the end of a page. And as in many

printed magazines, the headlines

will be of various fonts. Creativity

reigns supreme!

Thanks for reading the newsletter.

Sue Wellman, Editor

V.P. of Communications

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A New Look!

When asked what she does for a living Tanya

Schroder replies, “I make things. I help bring ideas

to life.” For the last 25 years Tanya has been a

model maker. The last seventeen of those years

have been spent at Nike, Inc.

Her first job in the field of model making was in

1987 at Pure Forms in Portland, Oregon. Pure

Forms made parts for Soloflex and Universal

weight machines and for medical equipment. At Pure Forms, Tanya was lucky to have Russ

Darmour as her boss. He acted as a mentor,

teaching her how to make molds and

encouraging her to learn as much as she could.

She started out repairing and trimming parts and

then moved into production. From there she

went on to building patterns and molds for the

production of polyurethane foam molding.

Tanya took some time off in 1995 to have her

second child. While she was away, Pure Forms

went out of business.

Russ suggested Tanya work for his friend who had

a freelance model making business. That’s where

she discovered that she loved model making -

shoe models, in particular. “I discovered I really

liked model making. It’s the perfect balance of

technical, which I was already doing, and artistic,

which I really like doing.”

In 1997, Tanya was hired to work in the Model

Shop at Nike, Inc. It was all hand modeling in the

women in model making

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Meet one of APMM’s Own

Tanya SchroderNike, Inc.

Submitted by Audrey Farrell, Nike, Inc.

women in model makingearly years. Shoe components were

built using clay, or wood and

Bondo, or rigid urethane. She built

some of the Jordan Signature shoes,

starting with the 14.

Eventually components were made

digitally, integrating printed parts

into clay and wood models. “I

resisted digital for many years

because I loved building things by

hand,” Tanya said. “But once I

learned to use the tools, I could make things

faster. I realized digital was a powerful tool to

have in the toolbox.”

Tanya does most work digitally now, scanning in

3D and building digital models. Tanya also works

with composites, making carbon fiber parts. Some

casting and molding is still done, and she says her

favorite thing to do is to cast people’s feet. Over

the years, she has cast the feet of dozens of Nike

athletes.

Tanya has learned all of her skills on the job, “by

doing”, she said. “By making mistakes, trial and

error, and learning from mentors.” Tanya also

gained a lot from going to APMM conferences.

“After starting at Nike, I began going to APMM

conferences (Seattle 1998) and discovered there

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Tanya uses FreeForm to model digitally.

Some of Tonya’s models

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are all kinds of other crazy people who do this

too, and make all kinds of things in all kinds of

ways, and I really liked that. APMM is a

community of like minds with similar interests.

I’m not the only weird kid out there! I learned so

much from going to the conferences and being on

the MILE.”

Tanya’s advice to young women starting out in

the field is to “Just focus on the work. Don’t

worry about your gender, although sometimes

you have to work harder to prove yourself. Focus on the work, have fun, and do what you

love. Find mentors. Everybody has something to teach you.”

Tanya, at far left, works with a team of Nike people designing and building a sand sculpture for the annual Hood to Coast Race that finishes in Seaside, Oregon every year for the past 5 years. This year, the team shoveled, packed and sculpted 12 tons of sand to create a 6 foot sand sculpture. Fellow APMM member Audrey Farrell is to her right in the pink jacket.

Submitted by Bruce Willey

You can call it “The Digital Age” or “The Third

Industrial Revolution” or “The (Approaching)

Technological Singularity” or, like the authors,

“The Second Machine Age”. The element all

these concepts share is the transformative

effect of the increasing capability of computer

technology. This book was written because the

authors noticed surprising increases in the

capabilities of devices and systems due to

rapid improvements in computer hardware,

software and communications networks over

the last few years (2006-2011). Their examples

include the Google driverless car, Watson

beating human champions at “Jeopardy!”, real-

time voice interaction with devices such as

“Siri”, robots that can be taught by manually

guiding their appendages rather than writing

programs, accurate language translation by

computers and the increasing sophistication of

manufacturing techniques including 3D

Printing. They believe we are on the verge of

an episode of significant changes to human

society similar to that which occurred during

the Industrial Revolution, which they refer to as

the First Machine Age. So, as the Industrial

Revolution utterly transformed the world over

the course of 200 years, this revolution that we

are 50 years in to will bring about an equally

momentous transformation.

This new revolution is happening because

computer processing power, sensor technology

TITLE: THE SECOND MACHINE AGE: WORK, PROGRESS AND PROSPERITY IN A

TIME OF BRILLIANT TECHNOLOGIES

AUTHOR: Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee

PUBLISHER: W.W. Norton & Company

PUBLICATION DATE: 2014

FORMAT: Hardcover, 306 pages

ISBN: 978-0-393-23935-5

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and interconnectedness among people and

computers have been doubling roughly every

18 months for decades. The authors expect

this to continue and assert that giving more

and more people access to better, cheaper

and faster technology will spur innovation

and bring about advances that are “the stuff

of science fiction” or “straight out of science

fiction” (a couple of phrases they are very

fond of and use frequently).

The book is divided into three sections.

The first describes the characteristics of the

Second Machine Age; the second explains

how both “bounty” (access to goods and

services) and “spread” (disparity between

advantaged and disadvantaged people and

populations) would increase; and the third

gives recommendations for individuals and

organizations that would maximize bounty

and minimize the impact of spread.

The book is very readable. The authors use

many interesting anecdotes to illustrate their

points. For example, the first 1.8 teraflop

calculations were performed by a $55 million

government lab supercomputer called ASCI

Red in 1997 to simulate a nuclear explosion.

Nine years later 1.8 teraflop calculations were

performed to simulate a nuclear explosion for

video gaming on a $500 Sony PlayStation 3.

Many other examples touch on how improved

computer-enabled connectivity among people

can bring new insight to finding solutions

(InnoCentive) and gleaning useful information

for individuals by manipulating the data

generated by many people (Waze). As they

put it; “What This Problem Needs Are More

Eyeballs and Bigger Computers”.

The authors bring useful perspectives to issues

like the disparity in employment among

various groups. While demand is generally

higher for people doing cognitive work

compared to those doing manual work, they

show that having a job performing non-

routine manual work (like personal care,

gourmet cooking and model making!) is better

than a job performing routine cognitive work

since computers are learning these quickly,

causing a decreased demand for these types

of jobs.

After the glowing talk of the coming bounty

and the cautionary tales of the impending

spread, the authors list recommendations for the short-term and long-term that they believe

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They postulate a society of

increased leisure, passion-driven

livelihoods and greater value on human-provided goods and services.

will help make sure these changes bring about the

greatest benefit to the most. There is a mixture of

ideas here, such as “support entrepreneurship”, and

“rebuild infrastructure”. In the long term they

entrepreneurship”, and “rebuild infrastructure”. In

the long term they recognize that it won’t take as

many people to do all the necessary work and some

provision must be made to prevent the development

of an unemployed underclass. They postulate a

society of increased leisure, passion-driven

livelihoods and greater value on human-provided

goods and services.

All of the evidence in this book indicates to me that

a profession like ours, where we collaborate closely

with our customers to create something of value for

them using a combination of technological skills

and aesthetic sense, is actually a model of how most

things will be produced and how many, many more

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book review

Have you read a good book lately? If so, consider writing a review and share your thoughts with your fellow model makers.

It can be as long or as short as you like.

Contact Sue Wellman at swhirlz@gmail.com.

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Congratulations to Nicole

Singson (Ziedses des Plantes)

of Bell Helmets. She and her

husband Jeffrey had their first

baby on July 3, 2014. Tatum

Alice Singson weighed 7 lbs.

10 oz. and was 19 inches

long. Nicole reports that “We

made a silicone mold of her

foot that will make some

great Christmas ornaments

for family members later on.”

Congratulations to Nacho Mendez of IDEO, and his wife

Michelle. They had their first baby, a little girl, on

October 17, 2014 at 8:02 am. Her name is Emma Tola

Mendez. She weighed 6 lbs. 11 oz. and was 18 inches

long. Nacho says it is fantastic being a dad and that both

Emma and Michelle are doing great.

This article was taken from Inside3DP, from their

latest series, 5 Fast Ones on 3D Printing. Industry

leaders and 3D printing experts were asked for

their thoughts on where the industry is headed.

These are the comments of Preet Jesrani, founder

of DesignBox3D.

1. What do you think the main 3D printing event

or advancement in 2016 will be?

HP has already announced that their additive

manufacturing rollout will begin in 2016.  I expect

that market leaders at both the low and high end

will time their new product announcements and

breakthroughs at around the same time, if not

sooner.  HP’s recent announcement in my opinion

will spur other industry leaders to enter the market

and will jumpstart the mainstreaming of additive

manufacturing.

2. Which industry stands to benefit the most?

End users in the design, prototyping,

manufacturing, defense, education, small business

(to name a few) will benefit as they will now have

options offered by companies that have the depth

of experience necessary to deliver well designed

and solidly built technology solutions.  The

manufacturing cost advantages of large scale

production have so far not been part of the

equation, but they soon will be.

3. Do you own a 3D printer? If so, which one?

We have several here – we like many of them but

with a handful of notable exceptions, none is

perfect.  On the FDM side, we like what our

friends at Type A Machines have done with their

Series1.  A rugged, elegant design with quality

components make their machines our benchmark

in evaluating machines from other manufacturers.

4. What’s the most creative use of 3D printing

you’ve seen?

I have long believed that the costs associated with

prosthetics have been prohibitively high and 3D

printing is game-changing in that respect.  I admire

what Enable is doing with crowdsourcing 3D

printed prosthetic limbs.This is not only the most

creative use, but also the one that does the most

social good.

5. What do you think are the biggest obstacles

facing 3D printing technology?

If one looked at mainstreaming 3D printing

technology (FDM or SLA), the biggest obstacles are

1) Reliability 2) Ease of use – this has to be

simplified with a beginner in mind 3) Speed 4)

Printable parts – if manufacturers of “everyday”

products started to offer downloadable part files

that could be printed at home, we would start to

see faster adoption on the consumer end. I think

the obstacles vary based on the market segment.

A 3D printing expert looks ahead…3D printing innovations: 5 fast ones on 3D printing

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industry news

By Stephen Moore of Inside 3DP Share 3D printers operating on the fused layer

deposition (FLD) principle are fed with plastic

filament to generate objects. But as is the case

with the traditional 2D ink jet printer, cartridges

tend to be costly. Now, a Columbus-based startup

is planning to transform the status quo with a new

type of printer that can operate using standard

plastic pellets fed from a continuously fillable

hopper. The David 3D printer

from Sculptify http://sculptify.com/pages/david

(Columbus, OH) utilizes fused

layer extrusion (FLEX)

technology to create objects

from a wide range of pelletized

materials including polylactide

(PLA), thermoplastic

polyurethane (TPU), ethylene

vinyl acetate (EVA), and ABS.

According to Sculptify, the 1-kg bags of PLA pellets

optimized for use with David

will ship for $18, whereas a 1-kg

spool of plastic normally costs

roughly $48.

Sculptify is currently optimizing HIPS, HDPE,

polyamide (PA), polycarbonate (PC) and wood

composite. Sculptify notes that users do not need

to buy pellets from its website since they are

widely available and can be found on many 3D

printing and plastic supply websites in varying

types and sizes. However, there are some that

simply won't work with the system. Pellets will

also be available through the Sculptify store.

"David provides customers with the freedom to

choose from an extensive selection of materials -

which range from hard and durable to soft and

flexible. By eliminating the dependence on

filament, Sculptify can offer exotic materials and

composites never before used in 3D printing,"

said Luke Daniel, Director of

Business Development.

David possesses a build

volume of 20 x 22 x 18.5 cm,

with nozzle sizes of 0.3 mm,

0.4 mm and 0.5 mm

included. Layer resolution in

the case of PLA is 20

microns. Positioning

precision is reportedly 8

microns or better in the XY

axis and 3 microns or better

in the Z axis direction.

David features both groundbreaking technology

and commercial-grade components, all

specifically designed to provide versatility, speed,

and accuracy.

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3D PRINTING WITH STANDARD PLASTIC PELLETS