What is the difference between the icons shown on the map? Some are orange houses while others including mine are a teal shopping cart.
Also, there seems to be many participating hubs missing on the events page. Is it up to us to create a meetup and tag it with #3DPRINTINGDAY?
Hi @rmigliac,
The difference is between home printers and “shops” (like Fablabs, Printer shops, Maker Spaces, etc), based on the information provided by each participant.
We’re still updating event pages (especially for the big cities like NY), so stay tuned for that. No need to make a Meetup yourself.
Hope that clarifies.
Cheers!
Filemon
I have been trying to make Atlanta better! I can’t find the answer. You would think Atlanta would be great with the movie industry being so big here needing props and all. Any suggestions?
Errrr. Uhhhh. This one’s easy. Advertising. Go to the movie industries, find the props people pitch to them that they should spend their time designing not printing. Teach them how to build a reusable set of designs. Go to the local colleges and talk to the professors. Pitch to them the same. Get their buy-in. Let them go through a semester with happy students.
Be a business. Look at microeconomics models and advertising. Give away stuff, build up people’s investments in the 3D business/printers. Make it so they can’t live without them. Then, jump on the supply demand curves. Businesses take a LONG time to grow. If you grow with it, keep up with their needs, supply that and predict their future needs (grow to that), then you will gain all there is in that business model. It could be millions or $10.
Plan appropriately. Live life. Then Print It!
How about put on your hub pictures of prints of items likely deemed cool by your movie industry. Futuristic? Cosplay? Civil War pieces. People DON’T understand ‘Print Anything’ really means print anything.
Find an entire set of props for a SINGLE movie. Print them. (Complete them - painting) Show them in a single picture (connect those dots for people… “I can print your entire prop reqs.”) To the movie industry, getting the prop made isn’t important. Getting the right people together to make it happen is ALL.
just my 12 cents.
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