Formlabs Ambassadors Inspire

Brooklyn, NY: Janet Lieberman, the co-founder of Dame Products, knows how to get things made. After graduating from MIT in 2007, Janet honed her mechanical engineering and management skills at an impressive roster of companies, including Z Corporation, Makerbot, Quirky, and multinational soft-goods brand Microdry. Intimately familiar with the consumer electronics industry, Janet had an epiphany: vibrators weren’t being developed, manufactured, or marketed the way a quality consumer good should be. So Janet founded Dame Products to try to catalyze that shift. SLA 3D printing plays a critical role in Dame engineers’ development of new ergonomic product geometries, as well as in small batch silicone overmolding for customer beta prototypes.

New Haven, CT: Luiz is a professor at Yale University specializing in cardiac surgery and now serves as both founder and medical advisor to VIDA Medical Devices. In both his commerical and clinical work, he devises creative engineering solutions to imrpoving patient experience. His Formlabs printer helps him with rapid prototyping, and having the printer in house allows him to have a one-day design cycle. He 3D prints every night, tests his prototypes during the day and does design revisions in the afternoon. This cycle has allowed Luiz to take the next step from intellectual property to proof of concept and preclinical testing.

Moodus, CT: Marc Moir has been working as a CNC manufacturing engineer for the past 10+ years, and has a side passion for creating artistic jewelry pieces for his fellow motorcyclists. Mark was quickly drawn into the endless possibilities of 3D printing with the availability and affordability of desktop printers, and makes extensive use of both Castable Wax resin and Formlabs Engineering Resins in his work.

Spring Green, WI: Matt Moseman is the co-founder of Node U Design, a startup creating programmable industrial nodes for localized manufacturing. Matt is passionate about helping small businesses scale by vertically integrating design to manufacturing. While his company leverages many manufacturing processes including CNC equipment, the Formlabs solutions became a must-have. Being able to ideate and create low fidelity prototypes in less than a day at an affordable cost allows Node U Design to stay competitive in a fast-paced industry.

Sheffield, UK: Dr. Pashneh-Tala is a tissue engineer at the University of Sheffield Department of Materials Science. He combines knowledge in biology and engineering to design and manufacture replacement plumbing components for the most complicated machine in the universe (in other words, he grows human blood vessels for use in vascular surgery and medical research). He utilises 3D printing to enable production of blood vessels and vascular tissues in a huge variety of shapes, just like in the human body. His vision is to deliver bespoke vascular tissues, for the treatment of injury or disease, tailored to each individual patient.

Milan, Italy: Paolo is a researcher at the Politecnico di Milano in charge of the development of wearable devices for healthcare, the so-called IoMT (Internet of Medical Things). He was born in 1983, in a family already in love with technology: his father worked for IBM. Already in middle school, he started playing with technology, assembling metal detector kits, bicycle anti-theft devices etc. His passion then turned into an engineering degree and his current career. Having to develop new prototypes very often, he started using 3D printing in 2008: first Stratasys, and then other cheaper FDMs. However, the turning point came when he tried the Form 2, which allowed him to create unimaginable details and print parts with the quality of injection molding. He has been using his Formlabs printer since then for research, teaching and prototyping as well as for manufacturing end parts.

Brooklyn, NY: Christina, Cofounder & CEO of Makelab, is passionate about seeing a concept turn into reality by bringing a model from the screen to an object you can hold in your hand. As a driven entrepreneur with an industrial design background, she’s excited to be continuously involved in a growing manufacturing tech community that aids in the speed and innovation of products. When she’s not obsessing over process, workflow, and how to get 3D printing adopted by the masses, she’s often working out or enjoying the great outdoors with her fiancé and dog, Milo.

Palenville, NY: Nervous System is a collaboration between Jessica Rosenkrantz and Jesse Louis-Rosenberg. Jesse focused on math and computer science, while his partner Jessica studied biology and architecture. In their design studio they merge techniques from these different disciplines to look at new ways to generate products. They have worked with 3D-printing for the past decade to make customized art and design objects inspired by nature's complexity. Nervous System uses the Form 2 for everything from prototypes to finished products, including the Porifera jewelry line developed with Formlabs’ Ceramic Resin.

Evros works at the interface of solid mechanics and production engineering. He is particularly interested in shape-shifting structures, mechanical metamaterials and waste-free manufacturing processes. 3D printing, despite its relatively recent introduction has strong synergies with all of the above and is often used in his lab to construct demonstrators and components for testing rigs.

Palenville, NY: Nervous System is a collaboration between Jessica Rosenkrantz and Jesse Louis-Rosenberg. Jessica studied biology and architecture, while Jesse focused on math and computer science. In their design studio they merge techniques from these different disciplines to look at new ways to generate products. They have worked with 3D-printing for the past decade to make customized art and design objects inspired by nature's complexity. Nervous System uses the Form 2 for everything from prototypes to finished products, including the Porifera jewelry line developed with Formlabs’ Ceramic Resin.

Detroit, MI: Matt is a Product Development Engineer at Ford and roller coaster enthusiast. Matt uses both FDM printers and Formlabs SLA printers to create working 3D printed replicas of roller coasters around the world. So far he’s made three full working models, containing tracks and highly detailed train assemblies. Matt leverages both FDM and SLA, leveraging the strengths of each technology, and ultimately creating a more functional model as a result. Recently he’s been taking the roller coasters on the road, giving presentations at schools to inspire future engineering students.

Houston, TX: Cade is the owner of Tippett Orthodontic Laboratory, LLC with his wife Sara. He has been in the orthodontic world since 1994. With the continually changing dental lab industry, Cade praises his Formlabs printer for helping him stay technologically advanced. Instead of working on plaster or stone dental models, he is now 3D printing dental models. The ability to accept and print intro-oral scans has allowed Cade to expand his business and accept work from all over the nation by removing the bottlenecks of shipping plaster models.