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8 Oct 2025
I made a 1m wingspan flying wing RC airplane that prints in a single Form 4L build in just a few parts. Print-in-place, flexural control surfaces for improved aerodynamics and reduced assembly.
It actually survived 2 flights! 3rd one ended because of an unfortunately placed fence...
Is this useful for anything?
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Fun idea, but cloud manufacturing startups aren't actually working their way up the historical manufacturing tech tree, they are working their way up an alternative, modern digital one.
I'd guess cloud manufacturing startups will be able to make an iPhone 1 before they can make a 100 year old car.
It will be a while before one offers large steel castings that have been common for 150 years. On the other hand, precision plastic 3d printing that didn't exist at all until 30 years ago is easily available.
Jun 13
We are dangerously close to being able to totally reproduce old cars from raw inputs using only digital manufacturing startups.
Two questions: Who’s working on collecting the part files or scans aka the Library of Alexandria for parts? And anyone building seats/furniture products and engines on demand?
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Looking forward to Reindustrialize in Detroit next week. It will be the first time we are showing the Fuse X1 in public.
SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT
We're honored to feature:
Max Lobovsky (@MaxLobovsky)
Co-Founder and CEO, @formlabs
Previously announced:
>Antonio Gracias - Founder, CEO, and CIO of Valor Equity Partners
>Blake Scholl - Founder and CEO of Boom Supersonic
>Daleep Singh - Vice Chair and Chief Global Economist at PGIM
>Doug Petno - Co-CEO and CIB at JP Morgan Chase
>John Henry Harris - CEO of Harbinger
>Jim Belosic - Founder of SendCutSend
>Kelly Loeffler - SBA Administrator
>Alexis Ohanian - Founder of 776
>Ed Mehr - CEO and Co-Founder of Machina Labs
>Bryon Hargis - CEO and Co-Founder at Castelion
>Emil Michael - Under Secretary of War for Research and Engineering at DoW
>Del Costy - President and Managing Director at Siemens Digital
>Brendan Carr - FCC Chairman
>Mike Pyle - Deputy Head, BlackRock Portfolio Management Group
>Justin Lopas - Co-Founder and COO, Base Power Co.
>Augustus Doricko - CEO, Rainmaker
>Mike Solana - Chief Marketing Officer, Founders Fund
>Alan Schwartz - Executive Chairman, Guggenheim Partners, LLC
>Ambassador Waltz - U.S. Representative to the United Nations
>Dan Wright - Co-Founder and CEO of Armada >Andrew Lonsberry - CEO of Path Robotics
>Tara Murphy Dougherty - CEO of Govini
>Chris Power - CEO of Hadrian
>Mark Widmar - CEO of First Solar
>Lukas Czinger - Co-Founder and CEO of Divergent
>Jacob Helberg - Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs
>Filip Aronshtein - Co-Founder and CEO of Dirac
>Scott Kupor - Director of U.S. Office of Personnel Management
>Chris Raymond - President and CEO, Boeing Global Services
>Cody James - Founder and CEO, Open X
>Paul Kwan - Managing Director, Global Resilience at General Catalyst
>Justin Bibb - Mayor of Cleveland
>Greg Bernstein - CEO, The New Industrial Corporation
>Colin Greenspon - Co-Founder and Partner, Narya
>Keri Findley - CEO and Founder, Tacora Capital
>Darin DiTommaso - VP of Engineering for Defense and Systems, GE Aerospace
>Zane Mountcastle - Co-Founder & CEO, Picogrid
>Ti Morse - Founder, Relentless
>Colin Miller - VP and General Manager, Phantom Works, Boeing Defense, Space, and Security
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Maxim Lobovsky retweeted
This is great news from @formlabs - and every US manufacturer really.
This is the only American owned additive manufacturing company today that has a chance of fighting off the unfolding and scary Chinese threat. They are in fact under assault from knock-offs and counterfeiters.
What really separates FormLabs though is the material science and focus on chemistry and consumables. Massive margins for them, but they are reinvesting. Their business hardware is solid (but made overseas), but the materials are the Crown Jewels.
Their leadership is incrementally learning how to deliver into the industrial landscape. I cannot think of an American industrial supplier right now that is performing better. They deliver the best print-sift-blast-polish ecosystem and are taking the fight to the legacy and very arrogant German EOS company with this latest machine.
Just go and order an SLS system from FormLabs.
(@67Designs is only a multi-year SLS @formlabs industrial customer. No ambassador relationship with them, but just want to see them grow and prosper.)
Fuse X1, Formlabs' newest industrial SLS (selective laser sintering) 3D printer. This large format SLS printer delivers huge parts same day, at half the cost and 3x the throughput of the competition. Plus, it’s backed by the quality and reliability of Formlabs.
Watch the Fuse X1 product keynote youtu.be/yhmRURZKdA8
Learn more about the Fuse X1 bit.ly/4vAR4Dp
Fuse X1 features:
⚫️ 330 × 330 × 565 mm build volume, with 30% packing density
⚫️ 50% lower part cost versus legacy industrial SLS and MJF printers
⚫️ AI-powered Print Intelligence failure prevention
⚫️ One-hour installation, five-minute print changeovers, intuitive workflow requiring no dedicated operators
⚫️ Less than half the footprint versus legacy industrial SLS and MJF printers
#formlabs #FuseX1 #3DPrinting
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Jun 9
I like to print strange things to test our new products. This fills the build volume of the new Fuse X1.
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Fuse X1, Formlabs' newest industrial SLS (selective laser sintering) 3D printer. This large format SLS printer delivers huge parts same day, at half the cost and 3x the throughput of the competition. Plus, it’s backed by the quality and reliability of Formlabs.
Watch the Fuse X1 product keynote youtu.be/yhmRURZKdA8
Learn more about the Fuse X1 bit.ly/4vAR4Dp
Fuse X1 features:
⚫️ 330 × 330 × 565 mm build volume, with 30% packing density
⚫️ 50% lower part cost versus legacy industrial SLS and MJF printers
⚫️ AI-powered Print Intelligence failure prevention
⚫️ One-hour installation, five-minute print changeovers, intuitive workflow requiring no dedicated operators
⚫️ Less than half the footprint versus legacy industrial SLS and MJF printers
#formlabs #FuseX1 #3DPrinting
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Super slow motion 🤝 Fuse Blast. We filmed the Fuse Blast at 1000 FPS with @freeflysystems' Ember. What you're seeing is blast media remove excess Nylon 12 powder from a part printed on Formlabs Fuse 1 SLS 3D printer. Click here to see more bit.ly/3Q4LytE
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Jun 3
In the 14 year history of Formlabs, we have shipped 7 major printer platforms, averaging 0.5 per year. In the next 12 months, we will ship 4. The first one up on June 9th will be... huge 😎
Something BIG is coming. Join Formlabs’ new product announcement event on June 9, 2026 at 9:00 AM EST. Click the link to receive a reminder bit.ly/4abAu4J #Formlabs
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150k subscriber, full time YouTuber: all of us have some kind of autism combined with some kind of narcissism.
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Fun fact: you can find stone walls in the middle of dense forests throughout New England. They are property line barriers from the 19th century when the area was all farmland. By the 20th century, much of that farm land was abandoned and rapidly turned back to forest.
May 30
Every time I fly to New York, I'm struck by how many trees there are in the densely-populated areas around the city. (Coming from the West Coast, one arrives over the Garden State, and the suitability of the sobriquet is quite apparent from the air.) It feels like this degree of tree cover in highly populated areas is atypical (the environs of places like Paris, London, Los Angeles, Melbourne, Tokyo, etc., look very different), so I asked the LLM to investigate.
It found GHSL 2020 population and ESA WorldCover 2021 10m land-cover data, and concluded that New York is in fact quite unusual.
As far as I can tell, it's because of some combination of:
* A very favorable climate. (Trees grow quickly without irrigation.)
* Marginal farmland. (Readily outcompeted by the Midwest in the 19th century.)
* Together yielding reforestation before the advent of suburbs.
* And a preference for development patterns that include trees. (Japan's climate is very hospitable, but one sees far fewer trees in the populated areas around the major cities -- forest and habitation are more disjoint.)
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Maxim Lobovsky retweeted
May 30
Reports of an explosion heard around Boston are believed to be a significant bolide/meteor entering the atmosphere, a very large flash was detected by GOES-19 satellite that does not correlate with active thunderstorms.
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Maxim Lobovsky retweeted
May 30
Did anyone else in Cambridge/Boston just hear what sounded like a loud boom and rumble? Like an explosion or large object falling?
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I don't get the craze in defense companies and high valuations. Has any defense company in history had sustained high profitability? Certainly they can be big, but it seems there are no examples of big and very profitable?
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If you haven't heard, Valve released the Steam Controller CAD so that people can design their own mods and accessories for it. And if you don't have a 3D printer yourself, or want to try some more industrial-quality materials, you can get them printed through a service like Form Now.
I designed this hand stand to hold the controller and in 2 days, had it printed and delivered with Form Now. Here's the model if you'd like to get one for yourself: bit.ly/4tzQqVo
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May 10
The job of an entrepreneur is to turn a small amount of money into a large amount of money. It gets harder to do this the larger the pot of money you are investing. It's a wonder VCs don't invest more in people who have proven they can do this at small scale first.
I started with a torchmate 2x2 and a severely underpowered hypertherm torch. Use what ya got. Don’t use other people’s money until you know how to use your own
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Maxim Lobovsky retweeted
these are honestly great deals. I don't think I want to deal non-American or non-Euro machines anymore
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May 2
The two hubs of spaceflight in the US are central Florida and southern California. They are also both very sunny and filled with theme parks. What's the connection?
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Apr 29
This is the most promising direction in robotics today.
Problem: industrial robot arms are too expensive to install
Solution: low cost arms vision targeted machine learning technoques to make programming easier and system more robust to variation without lots of hardware engineering
Apr 27
We present "hybrid system" that supplements conventional automation with "learning" for task & safety-level adaptiveness
Deployed in factory for motor cable soldering (< 0.6 mm tolerance), resulting 108 motors, 99.4% SR with < 20 min data per task
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2604.22235
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It seems like the opposite is true and the best funded hardware startups almost never win
Tesla > Rivian
Rocket Lab > Relativity
DJI > GoPro, 3DRobotics
Fitbit > Jawbone
Formlabs > Carbon, Desktop Metal
I'm sure there are many more examples
Pretty sure it’s a question of money, not willingness, endurance or stomach.
Companies run out of money or people realize the opportunity cost is insane (and not “chasing riches” kind, but rather “family living comfortably” kind)
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Incredibly interesting interview with Frank Wang, founder and CEO of DJI
"He said that after 20 years of entrepreneurship, what he is most satisfied with is not building a world-class company, but learning to reflect"
Basically the opposite of retardmaxxing. While Marc Andreesen is speculating on crypto and other nonsense, this incredibly introspective founder has built a $15B revenue company. Self-reflection is key.
Amazing interview with Frank Wang, the founder of DJI. He is… somewhat Wenfeng-like. Extreme introvert, fully intrinsically motivated, engineering competition track over academics…
But this makes me think. DJI is such a fixture of our reality. Founded just 20 years ago.
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