Launched in 2009, Maker Geeks Manufacturing, Inc, manufacturer of 3D printer filament in the US is the result of a hobby using Arduino programming to build and fly building home-made quad-copters.
In an Aero-Quad forum’s discussion about programming and homemade quad-copters (2008), the group began discussing 3D printing. Joshua B. Smith, owner and CEO of Maker Geeks, decided to make a Mendel90 RepRap machine from scratch, utilizing his own parts and having ownership of the design. After a few months, he was hooked and wanted to share his passion with others so Maker Geeks was born. At that time, he was working on the North Slope of Alaska’s oil fields in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska doing ultra-sonic and radiographic testing on the pipeline.
The offering of the company
MakerGeeks.com sells direct to the consumer and has available one of the largest selections of 3D printing filament, 3D printing kits and 3D printers under one roof. The company is an official retailer for the Duplicator 5S and Duplicator 4S dual-head 3D printers, MakerBot, PrintrBot, FlashForge, Taulman 3D, and NinjaFlex as well as an official retailer for Arduino and countless other brands of companies both in the United States and abroad.
“I’m very focused on having Maker Geeks become a large-scale producer of 3D filament here in the United States instead of consumers having to order from China,” says Smith. “We aim to be able to offer our customers a 3D printer filament that is far superior to what’s out there already for about 80 percent the price of traditional filament. This also allows the company to bring jobs to our industry and to our city of Springfield.”
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