GROWING UP AND GOING PRO

WRITTEN BY BOB PARKS and ILLUSTRATED BY CHRISTINA EMPEDOCLES

Image

Paul Bohm, founder of hackerspaces.org, was reading a news feed on the subway when he heard the MakerBot news. “I was immediately excited for them,” says the 30-year-old entrepreneur. “Not because someone somewhere made money, but because it’s a case study in taking an idea, hiring people in your own local area, and executing on it.”

When word that MakerBot — the Brooklyn-based 3D printer manufacturer — was acquired on June 19, many garage entrepreneurs like Bohm had been following the story real-time. It started out as a project among friends in the NYC Resistor ...

Get Make: Ultimate Guide to 3D Printing 2014 now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.