prototypers

It's been possible for quite a while, actually, but until now these types of machines needed to produce your product - called prototypers - were extremely expensive and out of reach of the average consumer.

Matador Network 2010

If we begin on the moon with a modest investment in hardware, things like 1 megawatt of solar energy, at least three different ISRU techniques for metals and oxygen recovery, a machine shop, welders, metal forming machines, and a couple of rapid prototypers we can begin the industrialization of the Moon.

Buzz is at it Again: Let's just change everything - NASA Watch 2009

Too much focus on 'making and displaying' means the world is full of technically competent artworkers or prototypers or craftspeople, but who don't understand the enormity - or potential - of the design process as a whole.

It's too easy to get a degree in design Jonathan 2007

Too much focus on 'making and displaying' means the world is full of technically competent artworkers or prototypers or craftspeople, but who don't understand the enormity - or potential - of the design process as a whole.

Archive 2007-11-01 Jonathan 2007

Digital Fabrication: Rapid prototypers/3-D Printers.

Michael Porter and Chris Peters: Ubiquitous computing « Attempting Elegance 2008

This would then be fed into ACR's machine, which can create more precise shapes than most prototypers.

Boing Boing: June 15, 2003 - June 21, 2003 Archives 2003

Rapid prototypers are machines that allow the direct manufacture of objects from geometrical descriptions of them in a computer.

The Speculist: An Interview With Dr. Adrian Bowyer 2005

Rapid prototypers are machines that allow the direct manufacture of objects from geometrical descriptions of them in a computer.

The Speculist: April 2005 Archives 2005

For ASIC prototypers, support for Synopsys DesignWare ® Library MacroCell IP has been added, broadening DesignWare IP support and improving compatibility with Design Compiler®.

unknown title 2011

Whitacre: Remaining $5. 8B in gov't loans paid back 5 years ahead of schedule Land Rover to Ford: Good luck with Terrain Management - Just remember who invented it HP's Designjet 3D series start shipping to wealthy European prototypers Droid Incredible arrives early for a few lucky, smug pre-orderers

Joystiq [Xbox] Alexander Sliwinski 2010