About Sarah Boisvert
Sarah Boisvert has worked in digital fabrication since 1986. She co-founded the commercial division of Potomac Photonics, Inc. , a Digital Fabrication service provider in Baltimore, MD for which she consults. She is also the founder of FabLabHub , a non-profit working on digital fabrication in makerspaces that are part of the Fab Lab Network started in the MIT Center for Bits and Atoms.
Formlabs has always been a wonder of innovation in the already creative 3D Printing space. The founding team – Maxim Lobovsky, Natan Linder, and David Cranor – designed a stereolithography 3D Printer while still students at…
For the 5th year, Fab Lab Hub is bringing together people from around the world who are using tools like lasers and 3D Printers to change their world. From a mobile Humanitarian Fab Lab in…
Lasers are an integral part of many 3D Printing processes, making it a natural fit that the Laser Institute of America [LIA] annually produces the Laser Additive Manufacturing [LAM] Workshop. This year, on February 21 and 22, 2017…
3D Print Life, one of my favorite 3D Printer filament suppliers, has recently introduced a much needed new program linking end users with global tech support. The new 3D Print Life Support referral site and…
It’s understandable that startups can be self-absorbed since designing, producing and marketing a new product requires full concentration of the startup team to ensure success. But in addition to the demands of a startup, plus running…
We know that 3D Printing has really gone mainstream when technology product giants like Hewlett Packard enter the market. Today at RAPID, the Society of Manufacturing Engineer’s annual rapid prototyping and additive manufacturing conference, HP Inc….
Dr. Neil Gershenfeld, Director of the MIT Center for Bits and Atoms and founder of the Fab Lab Network, likes to say that the “power of digital fabrication is social, not technical”. Speakers at the…
It is with great sadness that I learned of the demise of my favorite tabletop FDM 3D Printer, the Cube from 3D Systems. As those of you who read my blog know, I was converted…
Anyone who has 3D printed using FDM or extrusion-type technology knows the frustration when a failed print forces you to throw out material. And believe me until a design is perfected there are lots of…
Organizers of the Enable community have just announced that the worldwide group of volunteers who 3D Print prosthetic hands for those in need will be meeting on October 24, 2015 at the University of Washington,…