3D Printing's Future

(upbeat instrumental rock music)

We are the creators and inventors of 3D printing.

We have the first stereolithography system

that Chuck Hull invented in 1986.

Finally, after a 25-year journey to democratize,

we can actually put it in the hands of kids,

and to me that's really exciting.

These are a couple of aspiring 3D printing engineers.

What've you guys been working on?

Pretty much anything we can do.

We do everything from mechanical tests,

to see if the printer's up to printing something like

a zip tie, to actually useful stuff,

like reprinting a hard drive caddy for a laptop.

The kids are going to make the world of the future

and it's gonna be about localizing manufacturing in

your garage or desktop, and it's gonna be about

giving kids tomorrow's skills today,

so that we could really have a sustainable economy.

I mean, to me, this is what it's all about.

We wanna be competitive and we wanna be sustainable,

and these guys are the face of the future, and

what they're going to come up with we can't even imagine,

but that's the beauty.

The Cube's gonna have a big splash in 3D printing

as an industry. I personally think it's gonna be as big

as the Mac Mini was to computing,

or just the first actual Macintosh.

You think everybody's gonna have one of these

at some point in the future on their desk?

A 3D printer, yeah.

I think it's gonna become as ubiquitous as a microwave.

It's just gonna be something a family has to have.

The whole point is if you can think it,

if you can dream it, if you can make it,

then you can print anything from your mechanical designs,

to fun little guys like this one.

And anything that you can't do on this machine,

then you go up to Cubify.com, and you can upload your design

and then we can make it for you for up to 100 materials,

including metals, nylons, plastics,

rubber-like materials, ceramic-like materials.

So we're actually, through Cubify,

democratizing access and giving any garage entrepreneur

access to the same manufacturing resources

that were traditionally saved for only

deep-pocketed companies.

So it's really leveling the playing field.