140 characters just doesn’t do justice to some folks so here are five folks you should follow on Twitter with a few sentences explaining why. @JosephFlaherty is also a great person to follow!
Joris Peels (@Pilz)
Joris is Shapeways Community manager helping to spread the word about the wonders of 3D printing. He is also a prolific theorist giving name to the “Singer Problem” AND “Pizza Comparison“, both of which sound funny, but are good frameworks to use when thinking about 3D Printing.
AnnMarie Thomas Ph.D. (@annmarie-thomas)
Professor of engineering, designer, and trapeze enthusiast. She teaches classes like “Squishy Circuits”, the “Science of the Circus”, and “Toy Design”. She studied oceanographic engineering and music at MIT. Seems like she would be the best dinner party guest ever.
Jeff Potter (@cookingforgeeks)
Jeff is working on a book/blog called Cooking for Geeks. Food prep is the most basic form of personal fabrication and Jeff is working on some interesting projects e.g. this is the first blog I’ve seen where a trout is hooked up to a breadboard (The electronic variety).
Will Langford (@LangfordW)
Will is an undergraduate engineering student at Tufts and the owner of not one, but TWO MakerBots (He was an intern there). He makes cool things. I’m most impressed with his use of the MakerBot to iteratively design an Arduino based robot. MakerBot has a lot of short comings, but this project is an example of where I think it will flourish, STEM education.
Angus MacLane (@AngusMacLane)
Angus is an animator at Pixar, but also the creator of the “CubeDudes” which are highly stylized homages to pop culture icons made of Lego. The sculptures are wildly inventive interpreting highy stylized object and characters with a limited palette of Lego parts. See Han Solo in Carbonite, Geordi LaForge (and his visor), Max from “Where the Wild Things Are“, Transformers, and more. The combination of Lego and other geek favorites is nothing new, but the artful use of specialty parts sets these apart.
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