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.
A sure sign an industry is maturing is when new product announcements at major trade shows are really just improvements in current performance. Faster – New Materials – Higher Resolution – Faster – “true” 4…
Digital Fabrication and 3D Printing research from Harvard Professor Jennifer Lewis’ group at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering in Cambridge, MA has in many ways seemed futuristic. But now the work is entering the commercial marketplace. Fueled…
With over 200,000 medical devices being 3D Printed every day, the medical market is a strong driver in the 3D printing industry. But for implantable applications parts need to be very small and lightweight. Using…
The huge maker love fest World Maker Faire is in New York this weekend and New York Hall of Science CEO Margaret Honey calls it the World’s Happiest Event! Located in the same place as…
This year’s New York World Maker Faire will be preceded by MakerCon, a cool conference “By and For Makers” on September 17-18. With 52 speakers in 42 sessions organized into 4 tracks, MakerCon will cover a wide…
Bringing 3D Printing, laser cutting and marking, CNC machining and all manner of Digital Fabrication processes to life, DigiFabCon will this year land in Baltimore, MD on November 17, 2014. The day-long interactive making event…
A wealth of 3D Printing and additive manufacturing conferences have sprung up around the world, covering all aspects of the wide range of 3D Printing topics. For those of us in manufacturing, however, these events…
Remember the wild success of the Pet Rock? Ok, maybe, that was before your time. But back in the hip days of the 1970’s an advertising executive named Gary Dahl in Los Gatos, CA, came…
Last week saw official launch announcements from both Sols and United Nude for new 3D Printed products designed especially for the footwear market. Through an eblast, I got news that Sols, the custom orthotics company created by…
As 3D Printing moves toward more widespread application in mainstream industrial markets, it’s interesting to note the shift from the desktop hacker providing parts at Maker Faires to contract service companies utilizing processes and procedures…