FDM 3D Printing Inventor Scott Crump Enters Minnesota Inventors Hall of Fame
“Let’s get Crumped!” That’s a phrase I’m trying to coin. It means, “Let’s get inducted into the Minnesota Inventors Hall of Fame (MIHF) like Chairman of Stratasys, Scott Crump” because Crump, who co-founded the company with his wife Lisa in 1989, got Crumped this past Friday at the 57th annual Minnesota Inventors Congress in Minneapolis.
Crump, as most of our readers know, is the inventor of fused deposition modeling (FDM), the 3D printing process on which most desktop 3D printers rely. Some 25 years ago, while the inventor was working on a project for his daughter, he realized that he could use a hot glue gun to mold 3D objects and that, if that glue gun were attached to a robotic XYZ gantry system, the modeling process could be done automatically. Now, the company has become a world leader in 3D printing technology. Crump has acted as [Keep reading…]
Source: 3dprintingindustry.com