crwalker

The FDA requires information panel labeling for most food: I think it's reasonable to want to know roughly what we're eating.

I would not be surprised to see similar printed labeling requirements for IoT devices, in bite sized chunks that are more standardized than a device-specific EULA, e.g.:

This device runs on:

  firmware A (unaudited)
  web server B (UL approved)
  update expiry date: Jan 1, 2020

This device may:

  capture video, sound, and/or user input
  send user data to our servers
  send aggregated user data to 3rd parties

This algorithm appears to minimize infill time while still supporting the shell during printing. That's useful for prototyping form or fit, but I feel like 3DP for prototyping has been beaten to death already.

I would much rather have algorithms that can improve the performance of production parts. For FDM, that means infill algorithms that vary cell size and structure to optimize some user-defined metric, whether that's rigidity per dollar, per print time, etc. Just having denser infill near the shell like a bird bone would be a nice start.