Author: Greg Maino

  • Generator wins Mayor’s Prize for Entrepreneurship

    Generator wins Mayor’s Prize for Entrepreneurship

    Burlington Mayor Miro Weinberger announced that Generator is one of the three winners of this year’s Mayor’s Prize for Entrepreneurship.

    Generator received $50,000 to expand its successful JumpStart program. This program provides high-quality founder education and support for early stage entrepreneurs.  

    Thanks to this grant, Generator can add a summer incubator to help college students launch and grow businesses in Vermont. Generator also plans to launch a new business bootcamp for artist entrepreneurs next fall.  

    JumpStart is created in partnership with Lake Champlain Regional Chamber of Commerce’s LaunchVT.

    Generator begins accepting applications for the Spring 2019 session of JumpStart in November.

    The goal of the Mayor’s Prize is to foster the growth and development of entrepreneurship in the city and encourage outside-the-box thinking about how best to achieve this. The Mayor’s Prize is entirely funded by a grant from the Kansas City-based Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.

    Other winners include Mercy Connections and the Center for Women and Enterprise.  

    You can find more information about the Mayor’s prize and winning programs on City of Burlington’s website.

    We’re proud to be selected for this competitive award and excited to have this additional support as we promote entrepreneurship in Burlington.   More information about JumpStart will be released in the new future and we look forward to helping companies stay and grow in our community!  

     

  • 3D printed bridge — Amsterdam

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  • The fastest growing sectors in 3D printing for 2015

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  • Mud Houses from 3D printers

    From Yahoo! 3D printing is now being used to produce anything from personalized action figures to tactile maps that help the visually impaired navigate. Now, Italian social business WASP is developing a full size portable 3D printer which prints bio-architecture houses — combining one of humanity’s latest technological developments with one if its oldest building materials, mud.

    In many parts of the world where affordable housing shortages are a growing problem, mud remains the most affordable and widely available raw material. However, building with it is an arduous and labour-intensive process. WASP intend to produce a commercially-available three armed, 20ft portable 3D printer which can be assembled on site. Read more…

  • Printed Electronics Europe: Meet customers, do business

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  • Talk with Your Hands?

    Fujitsu Smart Ring Lets User ‘Write’ in the Air
    eWeek (01/13/15) Jeffrey Burt

    Fujitsu Laboratories recently demonstrated a prototype for a ring-type computing device that would enable users to “write” words in the air and select menu items without physically touching a device. The researchers say the wearable technology would enable users to work hands-free. “Because operators do not need to hold devices in their hands to receive information in the field, there are especially high expectations for the use of such wearable devices in fieldwork for which operators need use of their hands at all times,” says a Fujitsu official. Fujitsu has designed the smart ring to make use of such technologies as a near-field communications tag reader, motion sensors, Bluetooth Low Energy, and a sensor-processing microcontroller that helps map the gestures of the user’s hand. A mobile device with Bluetooth that is running an app from Fujitsu can track the hand motion and understand what the user is doing. The technology has a recognition accuracy rate of about 95 percent for numbers, and Fujitsu expects to commercialize the technology in 2016.
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  • Webinar Reminder – Visualizing the 3D Printing Landscape

    Reminder free IDTechEx webinar on Thursday 22 January 2015

    Visualizing the 3D Printing Landscape

    By Dr Jon Harrop, Director, IDTechEx

    Space is limited – reserve your seat today!

    The world of 3D printing continues to diversify and expand with ever more printers coming on the market and even completely new technologies. Each of these printing processes has its own advantages and disadvantages. We present our latest findings on the technical capabilities of current and forthcoming 3D printing technologies. We will use new visualizations developed for our latest market research report to highlight key differentiators between printing technologies and to identify some prominent gaps in the market. Finally, we shall take a look at the opportunities that are literally off the charts and identify some of the major innovations we expect to emerge commercially over the next year that will fill some of these unmet needs.

    • Overview of existing 3D printing technologies
    • Latest quantitative data
    • New visualizations of the market
    • Unmet needs and market opportunities

    Registration
    We will be hosting the same webinar twice in one day, so please join whichever session is the most convenient for you.

    Date: Thursday 22 January 2015
    Duration: 30 minutes plus 10 minutes for Q&A

    Webinar #1: Europe & Asia-Pacific
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    Register here for Webinar #1

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    Register here for Webinar #2

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  • Venture Well Conference on Entrepreneurism

    Venture Well Conference March 20, 22, and 22.  Participate in largest national conference on entrepreneurial activity at the collegiate level.  See link below.

  • Artwork at Generator

    Just to let you all know, attribution where attribution is due: the cloth works in our studio are by Jude Bond; the mirror works are by Christy Mitchell; the painting in the kitchen of the coffee cup is by Sandy Berbeco; and the metal shirt and socks hanging in the welding studio are early works by Steve Conant. Glad to have it here. Enjoy.