Embracing 3-D Printers, Manufacturer Tells Customers to Print Their Own Replacement Parts

Want a new part for your synthesizer? Need a replacement knob or dial? In a first, one company is telling its customers to just print their own.

It’s a move that signifies a major step into a new commercial marketplace, where customers can buy products directly from companies for on-demand, at-home manufacturing. And while we probably won’t see complicated, mechanical products from big corporations reaching us through Thingiverse for a while yet, knobs and dials are the perfect static, detachable objects to begin the movement.

By Geeta Dayal

Full Story: http://www.wired.com/design/2012/09/synthesizer-lets-you-3-d-print-your-own-parts/