Angling to be the Google of 3D printing, Autodesk announces its own open source printer and platform

Autodesk announced today that the company will release its own 3D printer with its new open software platform called Spark, in an attempt to set a "new benchmark for the 3D printing user experience." The move takes a page out of the Google Nexus playbook in which the premium smartphone was used to drive mobile adoption of the android platform - a fact that...