plastic. and the way it does that is it pulls plastic in from a spool, and squirts it through a little nozzle and it draws and then it lifts up a little bit and draws another picture in plastic on top of that picture, and layer by layer, it builds up the model. bree and a group of gear head friends got together and cobbled together a 3-d printer a couple of years ago, and now his brooklyn based company is at the hub o testify 3-d maker revolution. when we got our prototype to work, we quit our jobs. our goal was to change the game and bring 3-d printing to people, so they could put them on their desktop and actually innovate personally. and just like the replicator in star trek, maker bot s
rep replicator is turning people into entrepreneurs. chris came up with an idea that makes the square, a device that allows you to accept credit cards, work better. we made this contraption that goes between the scare and your ipad and makes it more stable. i had a proper prototype made and showed it around. it s a big hit, people need it, people want it. the next question is where do i have this made? i go to china, i look at injection molding. i found the best case scenario is about $4,000 to $6,000 to have molds made and they wanted to charge me 30 cents a piece. he could have gone the traditional route of making tooling which is taking a couple months to get up and running, but instead he got a maker bot. he manufactures them on his desk at home. people order them on his website and he ships them out. i got a tool instead of a