bio

bio 20+ years in toys - Fisher Price – Mattel

• Best in tech – JPL, MIT etc. • Best crazy geniuses • Best Biz / Marketing • constant creative

challenges • Worked with every type of

3D printing tech- and more. • Contact with other

industries; video games,

movies / TV, tech, creative, candy, sports

- Now Independent inventor

- work with all toy companies - non toys too

bio

bio

past Toys - fun

Tech - magic

Teach – empower

Formula Fuelers

proud happy smarter

concept

SLA model

Toys + tech. Skylanders: Video game toy hybrid

Used 3D printing of

video game assets to speed + improve

production of multiple figures – no

toy experience

past

Not for kids under 13: Standard for unknowns.

- Beautiful but fragile

- Mystery materials

- Function poor

present Nothing today is a kids “toy” … they are “collectibles”

Spin Master 3d –Armor files available online

Hasbro working with 3D systems

Lego – great 3d online world

present lots of interesting things are

happening….

Hasbro, Shapeways and fans.

Don’t fight IP issues– turn them into positives

present genius IP move

present

Growing toy markets:

3D printers

“Making”

Robots

Quadcopters

present

Shapeways, Thingiverse, Cubify, 3DLT …..

- adapters

- niche’

- hybrids

- custom

New frontiers….

Present other techs

Opensource makes electronics easy

Arduino

Raspberry pi

Galileo

Basic stamp

Printing On anything

Laser cuts also

Fabric Direct to fabric

digital

embroidery with laser cutting

Present other techs

laser cutter

water jet

CNC

foundry

print wax

print sand

other techs

a few people + fun idea + 3d printed parts + Alibaba.com + Amazon.com = current major toy companies - all the overhead and issues (don’t under estimate)

You too can compete with the best !

electric paper airplane web

• Inventing • Consulting • Design

• 3D printing • Hybrid Tech • Toys

.com

My current biz

Prototype an idea:

Old way:

- Do I have materials? - maybe

- Do I have tools necessary? – maybe

- Can I build it ? – maybe

- Build with what you have + can find

- Model is fragile - ‘one of a kind’:

New way: - Do I have materials? - YES - Do I have tools necessary? – YES - Can I build it ? – YES - Build what you want. - No such thing as “one of a kind” Model is strong-

easy to; fix, duplicate, change size, change color, revise parts, and can use old assets

- Everything is in the magic box ! and it works 24/7

Prototype an idea:

How my biz changed:

Speed: x 5

Quality: x 5 Complexity: things impossible before

Limits: none

I can make anything I can dream

Square wheels can roll … on a specific track.

- experiment in software

- use file for renderings, animation, meetings, animation + development

- print test file

- make lots of mistakes fast

- learn

- revise

- print as many models as you need, at any scale in many materials

I would not have done this project with out my printer

Prototype an idea: example

Before:

Me + 1 machine: 7 options, 3 contracts - in 1 year

Hasbro award for Vendor of the year. vs 300 teams of people.

Surpass overseas model shops.

Spin master – Works like – Looks like model revisions in 1 day.

Result

Imagine a toy company…

with none of the problems of today No tooling, shipping, or warehousing cost, and none of the lead time

No arguments about what toys to make- you can make them all

No retailer, sales, or customs office to worry about

No downside when a license fails, trend changes, or natural disaster strikes

Imagine if the company could Customize every toy

Only added to their catalog and never have to remove an item

cross most existing categories and exploit completely untapped ones

What if you could make the same toy at many price points, from many materials for no extra cost

my biz

created from 2 files…

any size or material;

SLS, FDM, inkjet, SLA, printed metal,

waterjet, laser cut, CNC, NinjaFlex

It already has….

Most industries have already changed internally.

3D “ Is 3D printing really

going happen?”

3D “______” issue will kill it. John Lasseter was terminated from Disney by ‘experts’ because “computers have no place in animation”; 1. It will cost too much 2. It takes too long 3. Animators will lose jobs 4. It‘s ugly 5. The public doesn’t want it Every prediction was 100% backwards– and then Disney bought Pixar. Who’s laughing now?

“What do you do?....

That’s what it’s for ” Kids never ask this question…

they tell YOU what it is for.

3D “ What is 3D printing for? ”

Unique moment in time

Best time to be inventor- there is nothing to stop you.

For all ages – 9 to 90

Everyone is qualified because….

no one is

Family + Community Parents + kids

Maker spaces

The future is now yours

No one can say “NO” to you– except you.

Questions??

… while we look at toys

thanks