Home Depot Starts Selling 3-D Printers in Stores for First Time

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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-07-14/home-depot-starts-selling-3-d-printers-in-stores-for-first-time.html

Home Depot Inc. (HD), the world’s largest home-improvement chain, will start selling 3-D printers today in stores for the first time, pushing deeper into a market that was once the domain of engineers and hobbyists.

Home Depot is selling devices from MakerBot, a 3-D printer maker acquired by Stratasys Ltd. (SSYS) last year, in 12 locations as part of a pilot project, the companies said. The effort will include stores in California, Illinois and New York.

“It’s a pilot for us to test a potential disruptive technology, and to make sure we are on the forefront of a new innovative product,” Joe Downey, an online merchant at Atlanta-based Home Depot, said in an interview.

The move builds on Home Depot’s decision to offer the MakerBot printers on its website three months ago. Though the devices aren’t likely to create a major new source of revenue, the chain is betting that they’ll appeal to forward-thinking contractors and do-it-yourselfers. Customers can use the printers to create parts and supplies that might be handy for repairs, such as cup holders, U-clips and pipe-stakes.

[misterhighwasted]

1. The whole concept of 3-D printing rocks. Like the Commodor 64 home computer. lol

I want one sooo badly.
But like all good intended things, there will be a few whose intent is destructive. Like killers & psychopaths.

Wonder if Makerbot can make guns & bullets & such?

[Historic NY]

2. Interesting...

wonder if it will make some bigger plastic parts for one of my cars interiors.

[CBGLuthier]

3. Let me know when a store I would step foot in sells them.

Fuck Home Depot and their asshole founder. I figure any money I gave them is being used against my interests so to hell with them.


http://www.salon.com/2013/08/05/home_depot_founder%E2%80%99s_quiet_10_million_right_wing_investment/

Home Depot founder Bernard Marcus topped the list of donors, contributing $10,745,000. A public critic of the Obama administration, blasting it as “amateurs in the White House” and “amateurs surrounded by amateurs”