One of the earliest hobbyist-friendly on-demand 3D printing and fabrication shops, Shapeways, is filing for bankruptcy. As these financial arrangements always go, this may or may not mean the end ...

Armed with a variety of 3D printing techniques and years of model-building experience ... How does a Makerbot, a Formlabs, and a Shapeways print stand up against being used in the target application?

such as Shapeways, Star Rapid (working on a post about them), ProtoLabs, iMaterialize, and others that do 3D printing and more – I have covered most of these players in previous posts ...