[grahn]

Technologies for mass scale customisation is being developed by several big players in the market. However, also consider that there are already hundreds of thousands of different shoe styles in the market, so finding a pair of perfectly fitting shoes can to a large degree be considered a search problem rather than a customisation problem. With appropriate 3D scanning technology, this can be done today.

Disclosure: I work for a technology provider in this field.

[TaylorAlexander]

Lately I’ve been thinking about the connection between markets and “othering”. I’m wondering if distributed manufacturing can help, and interested in DIY “micro factories” that can be made in a small shop using 3D printers and basic hand tools.

So it’s a different approach. Basically I’m starting to make better and better robots with my 3D printers and I want to make open source factories with the tech. :)