![]() Open source drives innovation, while driving down cost. Hobbiest Microcontrollers and CNC mills,to a lesser extent, followed this same path. Small companies sprang up selling cheaper hobbiest models derived from open sourced printers (auch as the reprap derived Makerbot). Even the motors from inkjet printers and hard drives could be used. Different models sprung up to test different iterations (such as deltas) and hacks were made along the to use cheaper parts. By making the plans open source, upgrades could be made and the price could be brought down even more. ![]() Projects like the reprap started to allow people to do that cheaply. Some bought used printers and upgraded them, some decided to make their own. As their usefulness and popularity grew, many of the people who used them wanted a 3d printer of their own. For 3D printers, It started with industrial units costing tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars spreading through universities and businesses. It didn’t just “become” cheap and easy to source. Posted in chemistry hacks, Crowd Funding Tagged amino, bioengineering, Crowd Funding, mit Post navigation thinks that the future is in bioengineering, and that the best way to feed innovation is to make the necessary tools both affordable and accessible. Those projects are predefined, but the tools are versatile enough to allow users to move on to their own projects in the future. Backers will receive this desktop system, along with the supplies for their first project. Those tools are packaged into a small desktop-sized unit called Amino. Her plan is to bring the tools necessary for bioengineering to the masses – tools which are traditionally only available in research labs. ![]() It was for that degree at MIT that started Amino as her thesis. She has four degrees in the arts and sciences, including a Masters of Science at the MIT Media Lab. ![]() But, has some very impressive credentials that lend her a great deal of credibility. Hackaday readers are more suspicious than most when it comes to crowd-funding campaigns, and with good reason. Which is a deficiency that Amino, a desktop bioengineering system, is seeking to address.Īmino, created by, is currently seeking crowd-funding via Indiegogo. But, aside from the home brewing scene, those advancements haven’t really touched on anything organic. CNC mills, 3D Printers, and laser cutters were all extremely expensive machines that were far too costly for most people until makers demanded them and hackers found ways to make them affordable. As the maker movement has exploded in popularity in recent years, there has been a strong push to put industrial tools into the hands of amateur tinkerers and hackers. ![]()
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