re:Education – Edison Engine 3D printing education series launches on YouTube!

Edison Engine – 3D Printing Basics Episode 1

Edison Engine was created to educate the world on the process of invention and how 3D printing can enable that process. 3D printing is truly a revolutionary technology, and is going to change society forever for the better.
In the near future, millions of people will have access to the creative power that heretofore has only been granted to a few. This will reduce the barriers of entry to everyday people enough to allow them to create unabated. We at re:3D are makers of the largest format consumer FDM printer on the market, and are excited to share 3D printing with the world for a better society and future. Our very own, Erik Hausmann is the host of the series, and has a passion for sharing creativity and knowledge with the world. Formerly a senior consultant at Deloitte Consulting, he is an MBA graduate student at McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas. We hope that you can learn and help other people learn about 3D creation through this series. We are excited to see this new future, and have created this video series to educate and watch the 3D printing revolution as it unfolds. Remember, always keep creating!

Katy Jeremko

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The Great Big Gigabot Giveaway!

re:3D hit a milestone when we shipped our 100th Gigabot to the field! Around here, we like to celebrate when we achieve a goal. Our team of bots brainstormed on how we could celebrate, and one thing was for sure: we want to get YOU – the community – involved!

Our passion at re:3D is to keep the idea box open. That’s why we built Gigabot on an open source platform. We want the community to get involved and know that the brainpower of many can make a difference.

With this in mind, we launched the Great Big Gigabot Giveaway as a way to get YOU to think big and beyond the normal possibilities. With large-format 3D printing, anything is possible.

We are asking you and your community to submit ideas of how you would use Gigabot to make a difference. Think huge, because the next Gigabot could be yours.

As a team, we love that the 100th Gigabot found his home at the Clear Lake City-County Freeman Branch Library in Houston, Texas – a place where the community comes together to learn and grow.  We support the endless fountain of ideas that young and old minds generate and were eager to deliver the 100th Gigabot.

It’s not every day that a library buys a 3D printer, so we wanted to chat with Jim Johnson, the librarian, about the library’s future plans with their Gigabot.

While the library is working toward developing a makerspace on the top floor of the library, they wanted to offer something different to the community that inspired innovation.

“We thought we could get a desktop 3D printer, but we wanted to offer something more for makers, so we got a large-scale 3D printer,” Jim shared. “Not many libraries have a printer this size. We thought it would make us stand out and provide the community with something different.”

Thanks to a generous donation, the new makerspace will most likely be called Lee Innovation Lab. The plans, while not completely finalized, are to have a workbench and laser printer/cutter, so folks in the community can tinker around and solder.

“We’ll probably lean more toward electronics and technology, since we have a lot of engineers in our community,” Jim said.  “We want to provide them with a tool that is usually only accessible at their workplace.”

Katy Jeremko

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