Jeff Bates On Niche Communities and Why Partisan News Is Normal 113
You Can't Print a Gun If You Have No 3D Printer 632
The Explosive Growth of 3D Printing 213
MakerBot Going Closed Source? 182
Elon Musk, an Industrialist For the 21st Century 89
Injured Bald Eagle Gets New 3-D Printed Beak 103
3D Printing On a Microscopic Scale 34
Lexmark To Exit Inkjet Printer Market 228
'Wiki Weapon Project' Wants Your 3D-Printable Guns 570
Color Printing Reaches Its Ultimate Resolution 140
MIT Students Reveal PopFab, a 3D Printer That Fits Inside a Briefcase 49
Harvard Software 3D Prints Articulated Action Figures 75
Additive Manufacturing (3D Printing), Gun Control, and Patent Law 380
The World's First 3D-Printed Gun 846
Video Meet the Robisons and Their Low-Cost RepRap Kit (Video) 67
Report From HOPE: The State of Community Fabrication 32
Four years ago, there were around ten hackerspaces across America; today, Hackerspaces (Techshops, Makerspaces) are within driving distance of a good chunk of the population. The RepRap can be assembled for a moderate price, and those with a bit more cash to burn can get one preassembled from multiple sources. Makerfaires are held in most major cities, sites like Instructables and Hackaday are thriving, and all things "Maker" are cool. Far McKon was at HOPE 9 giving an update on how far community fabrication has come since his 2008 presentation at the The Last HOPE (mp3 of the talk), what threats lie on the horizon, and where we might find ourselves in another four years.
Update: 09/20 21:02 GMT by U L : There's an audio recording of the talk available.