The Society of Manufacturing Engineers is a serious technical group, so I was not prepared for the amount of cool crowdsourcing that took center stage at RAPID.
3D printing is on fire, and doesn’t need any help from the government. But it’s getting it anyway, in a big way.
If you were wondering what exactly the Additive Manufacturing Institute mentioned by President Obama does, they’ve just funded new R&D projects.
Watch the Information Technology Innovation Foundation’s “Why America Needs a National Network for Manufacturing Innovation event in this video, and download their paper.