{"id":305,"date":"2009-10-01T20:10:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-01T20:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/archives\/305-cloudfab-distributed-fabrication-3d-printing-nick-pinkston-interview.html"},"modified":"2014-07-03T16:53:04","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T16:53:04","slug":"cloudfab-distributed-fabrication-3d-printing-nick-pinkston-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/cloudfab-distributed-fabrication-3d-printing-nick-pinkston-interview","title":{"rendered":"CloudFab Distributed Fabrication &#038; 3D printing, Nick Pinkston interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- s9ymdb:739 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"112\" width=\"510\" style=\"border: 0px none ; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/cloudfab2.gif\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.solidsmack.com\/couldfab-3d-printing-for-those-just-hankerin-for-distributed-manufacturing\/2009-09-28\/\">Solidsmack<\/a> had a story about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cloudfab.com\">CloubFab<\/a> and I was immediately intrigued. <\/p>\n<p>CloudFab is a brand spanking new start up that is aiming to become a distributed fabrication platform for 3D printing. They are in alfa right now but you can sign up for a beta on their site. <\/p>\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t the only one intrigued, CloudFab was featured on the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ponoko.com\/2009\/09\/28\/the-cloudfab-manifesto\/\">Ponoko blog<\/a> and also on <a href=\"http:\/\/fluidforms.eu\/blog\/2009\/09\/29\/cloudfab-3d-printing\/\">FluidForms<\/a><br \/>\nand now we&#8217;re going to do an interview with Nick Pinkston, CloudFab&#8217;s CEO. Isn&#8217;t that great,<br \/>\nwe&#8217;re just one big happy family of personal fabrication companies.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Joris: So tell us a bit about your team?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Nick Pinkston: Sure, there are two founders:<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m <a href=\"http:\/\/njp12.typepad.com\/\">Nick Pinkston<\/a>, the &#8220;business<br \/>\nguy&#8221; of the company. I&#8217;ve been a tinkerer since I was very young &#8211; I<br \/>\nlearned to solder before I could ride a bike. Since, I&#8217;ve run a few<br \/>\nsmall businesses, and I&#8217;ve been wanting to start a company that blended<br \/>\nmy love of making things with a way to help change the world.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/steveklabnik\">Steve Klabnik<\/a> is our lead developer, and he&#8217;s been programming for<br \/>\nmost of his life. He really brings a depth of talent and experience<br \/>\nthat&#8217;s been invaluable to us. He&#8217;s not just a basement-bound dev<br \/>\nthough. He&#8217;s great to toss around strategy with, and he&#8217;s a true<br \/>\nbeliever in the cause.<\/p>\n<p><b>When did you guys get the idea for <span class=\"il\">CloudFab<\/span>?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>At first, we were looking to start a place with equipment to work on<br \/>\nprojects like TechShop, but it didn&#8217;t look like the local market would<br \/>\nsupport that. It was then that we helped start HackPittsburgh &#8211; now the<br \/>\nlocal hackerspace. We wanted to solve the problem on a larger scale<br \/>\nthough, so we looked at how best to make production widely available.<\/p>\n<p><b>What was it like to take it from idea to website?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>We got off to a rough start which put us a little behind, but I have to<br \/>\nsay that having Steve leading the development really inspired<br \/>\nconfidence in our ability to get things done quickly. The latest drama<br \/>\nwas maxing out our servers during the launch, but we&#8217;re back with a lot<br \/>\nmore horsepower.<\/p>\n<p><b>Are there any sites\/books\/people that inspired you to start your own business?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>When I was quite young I read &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Engines-Creation-Coming-Era-Nanotechnology\/dp\/0385199732\">Engines of Creation<\/a>&#8220;, and as a young<br \/>\ntinkerer it really inspired me to look where tech could take us &#8211; if in<br \/>\na futuristic way. Later, I read &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Fab-Revolution-Desktop-Computers-Fabrication\/dp\/B001P3OLVK\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1254426568&amp;sr=1-1\">Fab<\/a>&#8220;, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Democratizing-Innovation-Eric-Von-Hippel\/dp\/0262720477\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1254426613&amp;sr=1-1\">Democratizing Innovation<\/a>&#8220;, and<br \/>\nothers which along with many blogs and friends helped inspire <span class=\"il\">CloudFab<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><b>So you guys are a distributed manufacturing platform? What is that exactly?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Distributed manufacturing \/ fabrication is all about tapping into<br \/>\nexisting decentralized production capacity &#8211; similar to how the protein<br \/>\nfolding project tapped into spare PS3 cycles. We&#8217;ll be tipping our hand<br \/>\nmore a little later, but the ultimate goal is to increase the<br \/>\naccessibility for everyone.<\/p>\n<p><b>Will you ever do your own production, or is connecting users with producers going to be the only thing you do?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Right<br \/>\nnow, we&#8217;re fully focused on getting the distributed model implemented<br \/>\nand working well. We don&#8217;t see concentrating buying machines to be the<br \/>\nbest model to best serve customers.<\/p>\n<p><b>How will <span class=\"il\">CloudFab<\/span> work?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>All a you need<br \/>\nto do is upload your STL file and select the build specs. This sends<br \/>\nall the applicable sellers a quote request. You then select the best<br \/>\nquote by price, turnaround, feedback, etc., and once you do we hold<br \/>\nyour payment until the parts are delivered. If the parts are good,<br \/>\nyou&#8217;ll leave the seller some good feedback.<\/p>\n<p><b>Are you guys a Business to Consumer company? Business to business? Both?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d say<br \/>\nwe&#8217;re a hybrid really. If engineers, designers, etc. are considered<br \/>\nbusiness, I&#8217;d say we&#8217;re B2B. The main goal is really to empower people<br \/>\nwho don&#8217;t make things for a living. Once my mom can easliy make things<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll be happy.<\/p>\n<p><b>Your <span class=\"il\">CloudFab<\/span> Manifesto is very similar to what<br \/>\nI think about Personal Fabrication. In it you mention that the goal is<br \/>\n&#8220;truly personal fabrication&#8221;, what does this mean to you?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>It<br \/>\nseems like modern society has alienated everyone from the being truly<br \/>\ninvested in their work like artisans of the past. We&#8217;re at a point now<br \/>\nwhere technology allows us to be our own artisan. We can see blogs<br \/>\nbeing personal publishing, and it vastly increased the amount of dialog<br \/>\nand communication. If we can do that for designs and transfer that to<br \/>\nthe physical world, we think it&#8217;s going to vastly increase innovation<br \/>\nin the physical world as well.<\/p>\n<p><b>So you would like to be a global platform? What you are doing reminds me a lot of Ponoko.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>If<br \/>\nby global you mean having users around the world, then yes. Ponoko<br \/>\nseems pretty file centric. They bridge the consumer-supplier gap by<br \/>\ngiving designers a platform to show and make their designs &#8211; which is a<br \/>\ngreat service.<\/p>\n<p><b>Are there any\/many differences between yourselves and Ponoko?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>We<br \/>\nreally like what Ponoko has done so far. Between them, Shapeways, and<br \/>\nothers, the space has emerged as the new kid on the technology block.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s awesome to see Dave ten Have on the cover of Inc. magazine. As<br \/>\nwith any expanding market, everyone is trying to find and develop new<br \/>\nsegments. We combine elements of the successful companies in the space<br \/>\nwith some of our own.<\/p>\n<p><b>What will make you guys successful?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>They say you can focus on<br \/>\nthe horse, the jockey, or the race. I think we&#8217;re in a great race, we<br \/>\nhave an awesome jockey, and I think our horse is pretty solid and will<br \/>\ncontinue to train to win.<\/p>\n<p><b>You are in alpha right now, any indication of when you hope to go beta?<br \/>\n(and yes, we of all people know that this is ballpark at best).<\/b><\/p>\n<p>We hope to go into open beta in about a month or so. We&#8217;ll get the private beta robust, and then we&#8217;ll turn it loose. <\/p>\n<p><b>Why did you choose 3D printing as a technology?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Not only is 3D<br \/>\nprinting able to make a wide range of 3D objects with many materials,<br \/>\nbut it also has less complexity than CNC for sellers and buyers. With<br \/>\nCNC there are so many variables to take into account it makes it<br \/>\ndifficult to do easily online.<\/p>\n<p><b>In the long run do you plan to expand into CNC, laser cutting etc.?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Laser<br \/>\ncutting will be coming very soon &#8211; along with similar processes. CNC is<br \/>\na harder nut to crack, but 3-axis shouldn&#8217;t be too far away. Seven axis<br \/>\nSwiss machines aren&#8217;t around the corner though. <\/p>\n<p><b>Do you guys believe that &#8220;everyone will make everything&#8221; through 3D printing? 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