UMass Amherst Opens 3-D Print Center

摘要

The W.E.B. Du Bois Library at the University of Massachusetts (UMass) Amherst on March 26 hosted the grand opening of its new MakerBot Innovation Center. Part of the library's Digital Media Lab, the Innovation Center features 50 3-D printers, several desktop 3-D scanners, and Mak-erBot's proprietary Innovation Center Management Platform, which links all 50 printers together, enabling print queuing and mass production of 3-D prints. UMass Amherst is the first institution to offer such large-scale access to 3-D printing within a library setting, according to MakerBot officials.