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Nick Pinkston
Personal blog · nickpinkston.com · on HN as nickpinkstonhardwarestartups
Nick Pinkston's personal blog at nickpinkston.com covers hardware and startups. Since 2010, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Some Thoughts on Digital Manufacturing”. It has a working feed you can follow.
Manufacturing Tech Entrepreneur & Activist for a Better Future nick 2.jpg Founder/CEO of Volition The largest repository and search engine for industrial components, with over 50M products and the be…
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- Some Thoughts on Digital Manufacturing3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2013-01-10
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With all respect, I think your's is the "maker idealist" position on this movement. There are many reasons why economies of scale (which are due to physics / engineering problems) will continue to exist in manufacturing - even if many methods are democratized and available locally (a la TechShop today). I've written on this recently: http://www.nickpinkston.com/2013/01/some-thoughts-on-digital...
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on “What the Maker Revolution Will Really Look Like”Submitted Some Thoughts on Digital Manufacturing as a story · 4 points
HN discussionOne answer is to use an analog to a land value tax. Call it a "domain value tax". The idea is to have the most productive user of that domain (judged by the one who has the most money) pay the efficient rate. This leads to perfect efficiency, however it means your company's domain might be highly bid up by someone else - not fun. We might not want ::perfect:: market efficiency here. Shameless plug - My article on th…
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on “Domains are inefficiently priced -- small domain owners are the problem”Submitted Hardware is Going Exponential - A Few Data Points as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI'm with replicatorblog below. The article is sensationalist. And psadri is correct in that "on-demand manufacturing" is the real revolution. From the article: Q: "What percentage of the square footage of Home Depot is devoted to items that could cheaply and easily be 3D printed?" A: Less than 1% Here's some thoughts on the real issues in the space: http://www.nickpinkston.com/2013/01/some-thoughts-on-digital...
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on “3D printing and the future of retail”Submitted Some Thoughts on Digital Manufacturing as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Eating for Peak Brain Performance as a story · 1 points
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