Passion Project

A new series sharing the stories connecting passions in technology/manufacturing to the personal passions of our community. Each episode tells the story of a unique passion project, industry collaboration, friendship, opportunity in workforce and manufacturing, and the beauty and correlation of; music and manufacturing, design, pets, and sustainability and manufacturing. In three episodes, Passion Project spotlights the use of manufacturing to realize visions and supercharge pastimes. You’ll meet the people (and the pets) and companies who are turning their interests and passions into futuristic endeavors that will inspire and excite.
In Episode 1, art and technology blend harmoniously in a collaboration between legendary music manufacturer C.F. Martin & Co. and manufacturing technology giants Mazak and Renishaw—resulting in an improved guitar fabrication process.
Is Episode 2, we learn how Jay Rogers, an entrepreneur with a background in the automative industry and deep manufacturing roots is set to change the future of sustainable furniture. He is the CEO and co-founder of Haddy, a 3D-printed furniture manufacturer committed to delivering beautiful, functional furniture while cutting down on waste.
Episode 3 teaches us sometimes you just have to jump. Alex Tholl and Adam Hecht, co-founders of DIVE, an industrial design firm that is transforming industries with additive manufacturing (AM) solutions, learned that early on. After an attempt to enter the human prosthetics space stalled due to regulatory barriers, the team at DIVE turned their attention to animal prosthetics.