[Lab] First Build Design Competitions

[Richard Sloan]

nice awesome job!

On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 12:29 PM, Henri Kuschkowitz <
henri.kuschkowitz at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes! Congrats
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> Henri
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> On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 8:52 AM -0800, "Jason Cobill" <
> jason.cobill at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>    Congratulations Stephane - champion! :)
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>>    -Jason Cobill
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>> On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 11:41 AM, Stephane Arthur Kiss <
>> stephane.beauchampkiss at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> Good morning Ottawa makers. I just wanted to thank everyone who took the
>>> time to support my coffee roaster design last month and provide feedback. I
>>> found out today that my design was selected as the winner of the GE
>>> FirstBuild home roaster challenge!
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20151201005373/en/Coffee-Enthusiasts-Note-GE
>>>
>>> I signed a nonexclusive licensing agreement with General Electric in
>>> exchange for an *Autodesk Ember SLA 3D Printer and CAD software.* This
>>> is equipment I would like to make accessible to the Ottawa maker
>>> community! To facilitate this, I'd love to set up an Autodesk Fusion
>>> 360 and SLA 3D printer demo day for the maker community early in 2016. I'm
>>> hoping this can happen at Makerspace North, since I live so close by and
>>> it's such a great spot. More info to follow!
>>>
>>> Cheers. And thanks again for being such a supportive community,
>>>
>>>      Stephane
>>>
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>>> On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 9:20 AM, Stephane Arthur Kiss <
>>> stephane.beauchampkiss at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi fellow makers,
>>>>
>>>> I wanted to let everyone know about First Build.com It's a
>>>> website/community that features design competitions and great top prizes! I
>>>> just found out about it recently and worked out a design for a coffee
>>>> roaster for your home oven. There's pretty low entries in the competition I
>>>> signed up for and I put lots of work into mine, so I feel like I've got a
>>>> pretty good chance at winning. Here's my entry:
>>>>
>>>> https://firstbuild.com/sarthurkiss/city-roaster/
>>>>
>>>> The top prize is a DLP SLA 3d printer (Autodesk Ember) so I'm pretty
>>>> excited. The only issue is that the "community votes" are considered when
>>>> the panel of experts select the winner and we are encouraged to reach out
>>>> for as many votes as possible.
>>>>
>>>> If you've got some time in the next few days, I would really appreciate *a
>>>> vote for my design*. Shoot me an email to get in touch and I'd be glad
>>>> to *design and 3d print one free part for you* if I win the printer :)
>>>> Even if I don't win, I'm happy to return the favor with any CAD work you
>>>> may need in the future (don't be shy to reach out, I love working on new
>>>> project ideas).
>>>>
>>>> The easist way to sign up and leave a vote is to scroll all the way to
>>>> the bottom, and click on "+ Comment". This will ask you to create an
>>>> account either with an email (no validation required) or with your Facebook
>>>> account. After that, you can scroll back up and vote on my design and
>>>> others if you like.
>>>>
>>>> From the research I've done, First Build is backed by General Electric
>>>> and has a similar model as Local Motors. That is, collaborative
>>>> engineering/design and working under the Creative Commons license. So I
>>>> would encourage anyone to check out the current competitions while you're
>>>> at it (some of these would be great to collaborate on as a community).
>>>>
>>>> Thanks everyone.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>>
>>>>     Stephane
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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