{"id":9528,"date":"2013-12-20T23:04:40","date_gmt":"2013-12-21T07:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=9528"},"modified":"2017-06-04T12:12:04","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:12:04","slug":"gorgeous-robox-3d-printer-hopes-it-can-do-for-3d-printing-what-the-imac-did-for-personal-computing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/gorgeous-robox-3d-printer-hopes-it-can-do-for-3d-printing-what-the-imac-did-for-personal-computing","title":{"rendered":"Gorgeous Robox 3D printer hopes it can do for 3D printing what the iMac did for personal computing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"by\">By <span class=\"authors\"><span class=\"vcard\"><a class=\"url fn\" itemprop=\"author\" title=\"Posts by Signe Brewster\" href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/author\/signejb\/\" rel=\"author\">Signe Brewster<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The printer will be available to the public in early 2014 for about $1,400. CEL CEO Chris Elsworthy said the machine could someday be used to 3D scan an object or ice a cake.<\/p>\n<p>In 1999, my elementary school got every single kid to love computer class with a single move: It replaced a fleet of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Macintosh_Classic_II\">Macintosh Classic IIs<\/a> with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/IMac_G3\">iMac G3s<\/a>. The candy-colored shells, bright graphics and whimsical shape made it feel like you were spending time with some hip, space-age machine. Computing was so in that year.<\/p>\n<p>The G3 bas been discontinued for a decade, but it is still an icon of the optimism of the computing industry in the 1990s. 3D printers are going through a similar phase right now, as machine after machine hits the market. While they haven\u2019t quite hit the ease-of-use of a 1990s era computer, they\u2019re certainly getting there.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cel-robox.com\/\">Robox<\/a>, a $1,400 3D printer that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/robox\/robox-desktop-3d-printer-and-micro-manufacturing-p\">completed a fundraising campaign<\/a> on Kickstarter today after raising more than $450,000, is the G3 of the 3D printing world. It comes in bright green or blue and has bold curves. From the side, it kind of looks like an iMessage bubble. It\u2019s a beautiful machine that comes with a claim that\u2019s very common these days: \u201caccessible to all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2013\/12\/20\/gorgeous-robox-3d-printer-promises-to-speed-up-printing\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Signe Brewster The printer will be available to the public in early 2014 for about $1,400. CEL CEO Chris Elsworthy said the machine could someday be used to 3D scan an object or ice a cake. In 1999, my elementary school got every single kid to love computer class with a single move: It [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9528"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65090,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9528\/revisions\/65090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}