Earlier this year, a group calling themselves We The Builders – founded by Todd Blatt, David Fine. Matthew Griffin, Amy Hurst, Ryan Kittleson and Marty McGuire, and enabled by 3D scanning company Direct Dimension – crowdsourced an entire sculpture of George Washington. They enlisted the help of 3D printer owners the world over to send in 3D printed blocks, created from specific CAD files, to assemble the complete sculpture. The result: George Crowdsourcington. Made from 110 blocks submitted by 70 Makers, George has since traveled all over the United States, doing a residence at Adafruit in Manhattan, heading to South-by-Southwest, attending the Inside 3D Printing Conference in New York and a number of other festivals and events.…
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