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Engineering is sometimes like playing a game of whack-a-mole. Sometimes you get caught up, but there’s always that one mole that comes out of nowhere, jumps up, and smacks you across the face with its furry paw. Let’s talk about the things you should think about while designing your product, before it ever hits the […]
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Maker Faire Bay Area holds a special place in our hearts: three years ago, two brothers showed up with a small booth, to hand out business cards and take orders for Fictiv—a radical new 3D printing service powered by a distributed network of top-tier vendors. Fast forward to Maker Faire 2016, the Fictiv team joined […]
