TONIGHT! We're LIVESTREAMING Our "DigiFab Healthcare Roundtable"! LATEST Tech!!

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[The following was published to the Community by email on Wednesday, 22 June 2016, at 2:30 PM.]

OK, Synergist!

For all who CAN'T get here to DUMBO to learn first-hand and play with our innovative gear personally, we're going to LiveStream our Meetup this evening!!!

Here's the online link:

HCx3DP's "DigiFab Healthcare Roundtable," 22 June (https://livestream.com/accounts/16865906/events/5607903)

We expect to be "live" between 6:45 and 7 PM. (WiFi in our CitySci location can sometimes be flakey...so bear with us!)

Worse comes to worst, we'll have a video of the event for your future perusal...

Best!
LAND

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[The following was published to the Community by email on Tuesday, 21 June 2016, at 3:30 PM.]

Since Synergists are (by definition) involved in many exciting vectors, I'm taking the liberty of staying in your Action Queue with a quick repeat of our program for tomorrow evening here in DUMBO.

Come enjoy the richest, hands-on product showcase we've run this year.

We'll present FIVE cutting-edge DigiFab / Life Sci resources (three for your desktop):

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[Detail of human anatomy---printed from patient scans---by the new, breakthrough Stratasys J750. Note the integrated combination of colors, materials and opacities: all delivered in one 3D "print" via the J750's innovative, "Digitally Mixed Model Materials," printer/software controls. JUST one of the innovations we'll talk about tomorrow evening...]

CADD Edge (http://www.caddedge.com/)---prominent VAR (re)presenting Stratasys (3DP) & SolidWorks (CAD);
BioBots (http://biobots.io/)---BioBots 1 desktop 3D, bio-ink printer: living tissues from human cells;
Pensa Labs (http://pensanyc.com/)---desktop, CNC, "line-bender" DIWire;
BotFactory (https://www.botfactory.co/page/homepage)---Squink desktop PCB (Printed Circuit Board) printer;
Health Maker Lab (http://nyc3dp.com/)---Stanford Med School lecture clips: "3DP & Patient Anatomy."

As before, come join-in our "Mini Conf/Expo" around Digital Fabrication innovations for your education, inspiration and betterment.  Synergist, please RSVP and donate to our mutual DigiFab/3DP x Healthcare cause (https://www.meetup.com/HCx3DP-NY/events/231446100/).  Hope to see you here in DUMBO TOMORROW evening, 22 June! At CityScience, 68 Jay Street, Suite 403, DUMBO, Brooklyn, 6:30 to 8:30 PM. (See the link above for more detailed travel instructions and event descriptions.)  

Best!
LAND

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[The following was published to the Community by email on Monday, 20 June 2016, at 9:30 AM.]

BotFactory Showcases Desktop PCB (Printed Circuit Board) Prototyping at Our "HCx3DP Meetup NY," Wednesday, 22 June, in DUMBO!

Top of the Week, Synergist!

YES, YES, YES: This Wednesday evening is our innovation-packed "Mini-Conf/Expo" of desktop solutions for Digital Fabrication-driven startups, ramp-ups, entrepreneurs---and all those who want to see and touch the future of Healthcare Solutions + Making + DIY Lab'ing.

(OK! That's why we've also launched our new Not-for-Profit Health Maker Lab, Inc. (http://nyc3dp.com/)!)

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[Above, the BotFactory Squink in action on the desktop creating a sophisticated Printed Circuit Board using 3D printing and CNC technologies.]

JF Brandon, Director of Sales + Marketing of BotFactory (https://www.botfactory.co/page/homepage)---another of our Brooklyn breakthrough startups (even if they have edged over the border to LIC!)---will be showcasing BotFactory's "Squink" during our HCx3DP "DigiFab Healthcare Roundtable" Event this Wednesday (6:30 to 8:30 PM) at CityScience (http://cityscience.org/) in DUMBO.

Just like a 3D Printer, BotFactory's small circuit-board (PCB) printer allows you to prototype and short-run sophisticated electronic PCBs in minutes instead of weeks---all at the click of a button. This is the future of electronic circuit fabrication in our 21st C., competitive, time-to-market, iterate-to-success mode.

SO, Wednesday evening---for YOUR delectation---we'll present FIVE Dyn-O-Mite resources:

CADD Edge (http://www.caddedge.com/)---prominent VAR (re)presenting Stratasys (3DP) & SolidWorks (CAD);
BioBots (http://biobots.io/)---BioBots 1 desktop 3D, bio-ink printer: living tissues from human cells;
Pensa Labs (http://pensanyc.com/)---desktop, CNC, "line-bender" DIWire;
BotFactory (https://www.botfactory.co/page/homepage)---Squink desktop PCB (Printed Circuit Board) printer;
Health Maker Lab (http://nyc3dp.com/)---Stanford Med School lecture clips: "3DP & Patient Anatomy."

As before, come enjoy it all at ONE rich event showcasing Digital Fabrication innovations for your education, inspiration and betterment.

Synergist, please RSVP and donate to our mutual DigiFab/3DP x Healthcare cause (https://www.meetup.com/HCx3DP-NY/events/231446100/).

Hope to see you here in DUMBO THIS Wednesday evening, 22 June!

Best!
LAND

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[The following was published to the Community by email on Friday, 17 June 2016, at 11 AM.]

Pensa Labs' DIWire Showcases at Our "HCx3DP Meetup NY" Roundtable on Wednesday, 22 June, in DUMBO!

Cheers, Synergist!

Kelly Saxton---Community/Production Manager at Pensa (http://pensanyc.com/) of DUMBO, Brooklyn---will join our Roundtable next week to spotlight and demo the design/tech firm's totally unique desktop wire bender---DIWire---the world's first. This DigiFab "line bender" digitally manipulates wire, tube and rod for rapid prototyping and short-run production. This one-of-a-kind machine integrates with other CNC devices---laser cutters, routers and 3D printers---to modulate planes and volumes.

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[A top-down view of DIWire in CNC-action bending wire---apart from its unique applicability, this gorgeous machine is also an industrial design, award-winning work-of-art...]

Kelly and Pensa exhibited DIWire at MD&M East 2016 (http://mdmeast.mddionline.com/) (Medical Design & Manufacturing) at the Javits this week---where we chatted at booth-side yesterday. This market positioning stems from DIWire's new and novel applications in the Healthcare marketplace---starting with dentistry and prosthodontics. (This last "mouthful" of a word describes a dentistry specialty of design, manufacture and fitting of artificial replacements for teeth and other parts of the mouth.)

We're delighted to showcase so many innovative and important---mostly desktop and all breakthroughs---Digital Fabrication innovations for your education, inspiration and betterment at ONE rich event.

So, Synergist, please RSVP and donate to our mutual DigiFab/3DPxHealthcare cause (https://www.meetup.com/HCx3DP-NY/events/231446100/).

Hope to see you here in DUMBO next Wednesday (hey, the City's official Digital District)!

Best!
LAND

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[The following was published here on Wednesday, 8 June 2016, at 9 PM.]

Cheers, Synergist!

I'm delighted to update you on the exciting "doings" we have planned for your delectation at our upcoming Meetup on Wednesday, 22 June, here in DUMBO.

We're working hard to assure this knowledge- and connection-rich event will deliver the latest news about DigiFab's (including 3DP) positive disruption of Healthcare---news you can take to the lab-bench and bank!

>>> My Stanford Med School HCx3DP Lecture Highlights

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[The Stanford Med School IS monumental AND they're building more & bigger in the School/Hospital compound on the Palo Alto campus right now. (To the right of this photo is the construction site for a Hospital extension that is bigger than any structure depicted in this shot.) Took my wife and me 45 mins to find the office suite of Dr. Larry Chu, our lecture host---even with GPS, maps, Info Booths and uniformed greeters...Yowza! What an empire...as are many Medical/Educational Complexes these days. Even if it's a Not-for-Profit, most of these giant institutions are also very serious businesses.]

I'll kick-off our 22 June event with an over-arching review of real-world HCx3DP developments worldwide. To launch, I'll intro our "DigiFab Healthcare Roundtable" with an updated "high-light reel" of the lecture I presented at Stanford Medical School in Palo Alto at the end of April.

My title was "3D Printing & Patient Anatomy." I took a "horizontal" perspective of current HCx3DP developments---in the sadly vertical-silo'd and sequestered ecosystem of medical specialties. I worked to show Stanford graduate students how diverse advances in our hybrid segment can connect effectively across a spectrum of new Healthcare solutions.

Hey...come to our 22 June Meetup to enjoy the same educational benefits as the cosseted students of Stanford!!

>>> Desktop Bio-Printing the Mysteries of Life

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[The "BioBots 1" is a desktop 3D bioprinter that builds 3D living tissues out of human cells. AND, all starting at $10,000. A quantum cost-reduction from comparable printers on the market...]

Then, I'll be pleased to intro Danny Cabrera, the Co-Founder and CEO of BioBots of Philadelphia via a Penn team of 'Preneurs. (And, I'm proud to remind our Community that Danny is also a member of our Health Maker Lab Advisory Council.)

Danny & Crew are out to democratize biological engineering by providing low-cost, easy-to-use desktop 3D printers that can print "bio-inks." BioBots' social-commerce and common-good goals include helping biotechies and med-engines to prototype and iterate accelerated Healthcare solutions.

Come listen and watch how Danny has 'preneured his company forward with a consummate example of HCx3DP in innovative action...

>>> CADD Edge Showcases the Newest Stratasys 3DPs

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Charles Driza---another Health Maker Lab Advisory Council member---is the new "Business Development Manager--3D Printing" at CADD Edge, Inc.'s office in Manhattan.

CADD Edge (or CE)---with nine offices in the Northeast including New York City---is an engineering-technology VAR (Value-Added Reseller). CE's two most important "principals"---as independent sales organizations call their supplier/partners---are SolidWorks and Stratasys.

SolidWorks is a major CAD (Computer-Aided Design) software provider. Stratasys---a hybrid U.S./Israel firm---manufacturers a wide array of industrial and professional 3D printers. Stratasys---along with 3D Systems---is one of the world's Big Two, publicly held, 3DP-pure-play firms.

Stratasys is also the parent of Brooklyn's MakerBot, which it bought in 2013 for $400 meg. (Making Bre Pettis, Co-Founder and CEO, wealthy enough to become a VC after his inevitable departure of last year.) The BK firm was once the dominant leader in desktop "prosumer" 3D printers internationally. Now, some of MakerBot's competition (e.g., Ultimaker) have caught up with the company.

Charles Driza enjoys recent job-experiences that make him a hybrid expert in our hybrid niche. These include:
(1) an OR medical-device support-team manager;
(2) new biz development for a specialized 3DP OS controlling fleets of printers (particularly in higher education); and
(3) the co-organizing of a hands-on meetup group teaching "newbies" about the basics of 3D printing (e.g., a 100 at a time at the BK Public Library).

Stratasys has recently introduced the most sophisticated high-end 3DP on the market: the J750. (OK: Stratasys doesn't seem to have a flare for memorable product branding!) This is the shipping-machine that suddenly made HP's "vaunted" and "market-freezing" first-entry into the 3DP marketplace look pretty lame---by point-to-point comparative features. Particularly since that HP "trailing-edge" launch is NOW scheduled for the end of 2016 (IF it doesn't slip further still).

The J750 sports features such as:
(1) multi-material capabilities (up to six materials mixed digitally);
(2) 360,000+ color capabilities (functionally "full-color"); and
(3) horizontal build layers down to 14 microns (0.00055 inches).

From the amazing printed results I've seen in person, the J750 is likely to deliver major impacts on 3D printing for Healthcare solutions. I look forward to Charles' CE/Stratasys update---including the J750---on 22 June.

Come get educated and connected...!!

LAND

Founder, 3DP Media &
Health Maker Lab, Inc.

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[The following was published here on Friday, 27 May 2016, at 10:45 AM.]

Hi, Synergist!

Just a quick note to ask you to Save The Date---Wednesday, 22 June, 6:30 PM---for our next "HCx3DP Meetup NY." At CityScience in DUMBO. Featuring a Roundtable of Experts in Digital Fabrication, Healthcare---AND the disruptive integration of the two. Come on in to learn, enjoy hands-on and connect with the like-minded.

Watch for further (compelling!) details...

LAND

Founder, 3DP Media &
Health Maker Lab, Inc.

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[The following was first published here on Thursday, 17 March 2016, at 1:45 PM.]

As a review for those of you focused on our Health Maker Lab Program, here's a repeat of our current "Executive Summary," with our HML-design Floor Plan:

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HEALTH MAKER LAB, INC.

A New Not-for-Profit Empowering Citizen-Scientists to Help Solve Health & Healthcare Problems at the “MakerRoots” of Local Communities (Our Short-Form Mission Statement)

An Executive Summary

We have worked with innovative concepts, breakthrough technologies and new perspectives in program positioning to design our Not-for-Profit Health Maker Lab, Inc. (HML). Our “Big Tent” goal is to bring together, integrate and drive New York City’s prime assets of Healthcare, the Maker Movement and geographic placement for hyper-local Health betterment. Here are some reasons why NYC is THE locus for our initiative:

· With 55 major medical centers, NYC is the nation’s prime venue for the practice of Healthcare delivery.

· Our City’s Metropolitan Area enjoys the largest agglomeration of Higher Education Institutions in the country---many of these offer Life Science degrees.

· Digital Fabrication (“DigiFab”) is the Fourth Disruptor: (1) PC; (2) Internet; (3) Social Media; (4) DigiFab (including 3D Printing).

· NYC is the center of DigiFab development (via new modes of ultra-urban manufacturing tech pioneered by City startups) in the U.S. and the Healthcare sector is the fastest growing segment in booming DigiFab worldwide.

· DigiFab has helped coalesce and now drives the Maker Movement---with its democratization of empowerment via “open” source, DIY and DIT (“Do It Together”) communities.

· With over 25 Maker/Hacker spaces, places and labs, NYC is America’s largest center for Maker venues.

· Our City is also home to the annual World Maker Faire, the second-largest gathering of Makers in the country (most recently, 95K attendees during two days in September 2015).

Furthermore, HML will be the world’s first Health Science laboratory---open to the general public---that will also serve as an Experiential Destination. As such, we will welcome---and delight!---seekers of hands-on knowledge about the present and prospective state of Health and Healthcare inspiration, systems and solutions in NYC and the U.S.

As the premier U.S. Life-Science "hub” and epicenter of DigiFab & 3D Printing, NYC has joined the network of the new, Ultra-Urban, Manufacturing renaissance. In our nation now, making hardware (pro-actively disruptive, digitally engined and software-modulated) IS returning “on-shore.” Taking all our City synergies into account, NYC is the perfect venue for creating the HQ of America's DigiFab-driven Healthcare Cluster.

Thus, we are confident in our HML positioning as a new kind of “public” Lab, community Health center and Life Science Experiential Destination.

"Think" of our Health Maker Lab as a LifeSci TechShop + Bio-Exploritorium cum permanent Healthcare Maker Fair. HML is designed to deliver the action, the buzz and the traffic that will compel continual engagement with our target audiences.

As a unique Experiential Destination, HML will offer its neighborhood Sponsor/Donors a distinctive means to differentiate themselves. (For venture-capital players, HML will also present a Healthcare-hardware “accelerator” housing the most exciting and promising Life-Sci startups in the City.)

As Health Maker Lab’s Founder & Executive Director, I would be delighted to exchange with interested parties about our HML Program---and a mutual focus on social commerce and common-good for the Health betterment of local communities in NYC.

Sincerely,

Land Grant, Founder

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