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Almost unnoticed, revolutionary production technologies have emerged without any substantial input from big players. Instead, the initiatives came from researchers, small start-ups and tinkerers in their garages who experimented with printing three-dimensional material.
As is often the case with technical revolutions, the “movement“ thrives on its early protagonists’ enthusiasm, in this case mostly middle-aged male tech aficionados and a complementary open-source community. These so-called “makers” advocate the trend toward personal production and the networking of things. Idealists dream of re-possessing the means of production by the “masses”, tech enthusiasts about the triumph of self-replicating machinery. The excitement of a new age together with gold rush-l
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The FDM 3D printer Mojo by Stratasys is currently considered to be the smallest 3D printer in the professional space. |
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