What’s not to love about @Joris_Peels ? Here he is, telling it like it is at this year’s TCT + Personalize. Do you agree with the majority of what he says?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZPtKiK9idY
I might click on this thinly veiled bump for your own show if I had some idea what it was about.
Joris is one of the industry leaders in additive manufacturing, he talks about the hype and realities of 3D printing. One of the most interesting things in his speech is the discussion of how unrealistic hype like “the first 3d printed house” will harm the future of the technology as people won’t be as impressed when it actually is achieved years down the line.
I discorver it , Thanks for sharing
I join the consumer poitn of view 
@Dale_Dunn - I’d recommend that you watch it. Joris was (one of) the first community manager at Shapeways back when they launched, on “the ground floor” with the rest of us 3DP enthusiasts, engaged in a constant battle with unrealistic expectations being set by others.
@Andrew_Plumb , my primary gripe was that the original post told me nothing about it. So I had no incentive to click through, wondering why this was taking up space on my screen. All I could glean from the post was someone promoting their own show, which made me even less likely click through. @TCT_Personalize can do more effective promoting if the promotion tells me what it is that’s being promoted and why I should care about it. It touches on another peeve of mine, people who publicly post pictures with no explanation of the context that makes them worth posting. I just want to reply “Why are you showing this to everybody and taking a small slice of their time?” @TCT_Personalize aggravated me enough to actually get me to ask the question.
I apologise, I know that a lot of people on the group know of Joris and we’re not promoting the show, the show has been and gone, this is a link to YouTube channel, which we earn no money from. Our show is free and we decided this year to share all the amazing video content from the show for free too. You are correct i should have perhaps told people what Joris’ talk was about but it does say that in the description of the YouTube link.
Yeah, I would’ve appreciated a copy/paste of the Youtube description. Only the first couple words are visible in the post. Full props for the freely sharing, though. A lot of shows and conferences only make material available to those who paid to be there. Not saying that’s wrong, just pointing out your went above and beyond.
OK, seen it now. We are definitely on the hype portion of the hype cycle right now. The established 3d printing companies have been pretty responsible about managing the hype (or maybe they had their own hype cycle a couple decades ago). At the risk of jumping on a hate bandwagon, I’m going to have to point the finger at Bre Pettis for starting this hype cycle by getting on TV with a CupCake printer and claiming it could make absolutely anything. This took the RepRap self-replicating/revolutionize/replace manufacturing dreaming to a whole new level (imagine is Jobs had taken up Linux on the desktop 15 years ago). Lazy journalism gets a finger pointed at it too, for not calling the hype what it so clearly is. But that’s how advertizing time and space is sold. So, while we all need to resist adding to the hype cycle, there’s not much to be done about it but see it coming and ride out the crash.
Where I really have a gripe with the speech is the harping on how much time it takes to get a hobby printer kit assembled and working. Until fairly recently, they were all pretty much development kits, something meant to be tinkered with to help advance the project and maybe build some other stuff along the way. MakerGear was explicit about this, while MakerBot seemed to be in denial.
He talks mostly about the hype cycle, but there’s another cycle that deserves mention if you’re going to harp on quality and usability. The maturity of a technology has very recognizable stages, and the car analogy works really well here. Right now, desktop 3D printing is right around Ford’s Model T, maybe a little past in some regards, not quite there in others.
The potential of desktop 3D printing is worthy of excitement, but I agree that the potential doesn’t belong in the mainstream press as hype. Still, that’s how you get VC.
Wow, that turned into quite the ramble.
@Orlando_Sardaro dit filmpje is wel interessant