Autodesk and Mattel Introduce the $300 ThingMaker 3D Printer Ecosystem for Kids http://bit.ly/1WA5n4g
For those who grew up in the 1960s, making toys took on a quite literal sense, thanks in no small part to toy manufacturer Mattel. The company, which had only just introduced Barbie and would later introduce Hot Wheels, managed to bring the same manufacturing methods used for mass manufactured toys into living rooms around the world.
Starting with the “Vac-U-Maker” set in 1960, Mattel took the vacuum forming industrial process and turned it into a – quite dangerous – living room toy that let children form hot plastic sheets over various household objects to manufacture ‘new’ toys from the impressions. Soon after, the company added an open-face electric hot plate oven to their lineup – the Thingmaker – and in doing so added die-cast metal molding to the young living room toy manufacturer’s lineup.
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