In looking over the manufacturers of some small, consumer 3D printers, my wife, Danielle, and I came across many now defunct websites: startups excited to bring their machines to the market, but couldn’t keep pace with other firms and were washed away in the tide. Makible is the latest company to suffer from the desktop 3D printing hangover. Makible, in 2012, promised a $200 3D printer, the MakiBox, to make the technology more accessible, raking in a good deal of enthusiasm and investor dollars, but, soon there were delays and, by 2014, the company’s CEO, Jonathan Buford, had gone silent and Makible’s customers were enraged.…
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