Tracy Hazzard From CEO Space Live With Ryan Treasure

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Ladies and gentlemen, this is Ryan Treasure, VP of Broadcast Operations for Voice America.com we're at CEO Space December 2015 at Lovely Weston Lakes Las Vegas Resort Hotel and Spa. Right? That's a mouthful that one does. Such a great place. Go check us out. We're live. VoiceAmerica.com forward/live events coming up next. I have this interview with Tracy Hazard and Tom Hazard from Has Designs. You can check out their website at hazard design.com or find out all about 3D printing at 3D start point.com guys, thank you so much for joining the show today. Welcome.

Thanks Ryan.

Thanks so much for having us.

Awesome. We really appreciate it. CEO space, right? What a great event. Look at all the people behind us. You know, watching everybody network and kind of get together and talk about next level steps for their businesses and what, you know, they're going to do for 2016 and then, you know, just wrapping it all up in the end with a nice expo style environment of networking. It's just amazing place.

This is fantastic. This is the biggest expo that we've seen at CEO Space yet.

And this is our third event that we've been to.

That's great. That's great. So are you guys new for 2015? You've been to multiple ones in 15 or previous years as well?

Multiple ones in 2015 and I can't believe we didn't know about it before. This is like the biggest hidden secret.

Oh yeah, it absolutely is. Jeff Spinar, the CEO of Voice America has been friends with Bernie for quite some time. We've been to his know a bunch of CEO space events over the course of the last 10 or 15 years and it's been really cool to kind of watch it grow and become a little bit a larger entity as time goes on and then, you know, meeting awesome people like both of you. And of course in the space that you're in. I'm a big technology dork. I deal with all the technology and the team of technologists and engineering for audio that Voice America. So you know when you guys came up and I'm looking at Tom's tie, it's a 3D printed tie, literally 3D printed. If you, if you were to look at it and I know Winston will get some photos of this 3D printed tie will get posted up on social media@facebook.com voiceamerica talk radio. But it's really like when you look at the tie and it lays flat, you don't know that it's a 3D printed tie. It looks like A regular tie. Tell us a little bit about that thing.

You know, it was quite a challenge to create this tie, but, you know, wanted to have somebody to wear these types of events. And we went and just made a design project out of it. And, you know, it's a bunch of interlocking pieces and even all the way around. This is not a clip on tie. This thing about it, all the way around it.

The cool thing about it is it's actually printed in one piece on a 12 inch 3D print bed. So it's kind of like a challenge not only in terms of a design structure, but how you build it and how you print it. And it took over 100 hours for Tom to design it and 100 hours for him to dial the technical settings in to produce it.

Wow, that is amazing. And that really good work. It's fantastic. And you guys go check out some of the stuff that they do. I know you guys have the wtff podcast that's on3dstartpoint.com tell us a little bit about the radio show and what you guys do with that.

So we try to decipher fff. What is fff? What the FFF and FFF is fused filament fabrication, which is the technical term for 3D printing. But what we're trying to do is really get businesses and individuals, especially students and teachers, to understand what 3D printing can do, what the opportunity is and what the advantages are, and just get small started and get started and scale the learning curve as fast as possible so that they can get going printing, because it's not easy, but it's really great to start to take advantage of such an early technology at an early stage.

Yeah, no, you're absolutely right. I was talking a little bit before we started the interview here that I kind of follow some 3D printing stuff as it relates to the Second Amendment and people making different gun parts and different things out of the 3D printing devices. And I was saying that I think it's really cool on the technology side because it's just really advancing. You know, I see some really cool things ahead of the curve when it comes to plastic car parts, you know, especially for some of the people out there that do, you know, restorations of old cars. And it's hard to get, you know, a pair of plastic tail lights for a 1950s vehicle or, you know, something, maybe even like a Camaro or something like that. So definitely, like the way that the technology is going in the space. Why don't you guys give us a Little bit of a rundown on specifically maybe what's your niche. What you guys do with has design.

Within the 3D printing space. It's our mission to bring 3D printing to more regular consumers. It's been very popular in the engineering space and the maker spaces for a lot of years. We've used 3D printing, developing conventional products for 15 years. But now desktop 3D printing is really making that accessible to regular people who want to get into it. There's so much opportunity for them and this is going to change the face of retail and localized manufacturing in the US and we're trying to help make that attainable and reachable to average people so they can understand it.

And design is the biggest challenge part of it. So our regular business has design is focused on consumer retail products. And we've done like 250 consumer retail products that you buy every day. We're what you call ghost designers.

Right.

And so you don't know we designed it, but we did. And anyway they, we decided that we really would help people focus on how to make good products through, through 3D printing so that they can really change their businesses and do things. Like you were mentioning about automotive replacement parts. There's a whole industry, a whole business that could be developed there.

Absolutely. So tell us a little bit about, you know, as it relates to the, the industry with 3D printing. You know, if I'm, if I'm a home person, I want to get started with maybe 3D printing. You know, what are some of, you know, give us a list of maybe the five most needed items. If someone just wanted to get started on, you know, a hobby basis doing some small 3D projects at home, you.

Know, you really need to get into a CAD program and learn how to use one. And there are several that are really good entry level products and they're free online, you know, Autodesk, 123D, Google SketchUp, you know, Tinkercad programs are something that there are video tutorial series on, on YouTube and you can learn and jump right in, but you've got to learn how to make something in a three dimensional model if you're going to make unique things to 3D print.

And yet Tom mentioned video tutorials. That's the first place I would start. And there's like i3D creatives and a bunch of those. That's really a great place to start to see what you're getting into.

So really it kind of starts with the design process and some type of 3D modeling software and then Once you get kind of the design implemented in a digital environment on your computer, then at that point you would move that design into a hardware function to do the fff, right?

Yes, that's right. And you know, there's been a lot of advances in 3D printers, and you can get one as low as $350, and there are some really good ones around the $600 price point. And then, you know, as you get more into it, you want little more advanced features and you go to, you know, a thousand. Between a thousand to three thousand dollars. But so it's very accessible now.

Oh, wow. That's. I was actually under the impression that it was much more expensive to get into something like that. So thank you for letting our listener that information. I know that there's quite a few techie people that listen to the voiceamerica.com site that would definitely be interested. Coming up, we also have Mr. Winston Marshall Price, who jumped in as well. Winston, thank you for joining the interview.

Hello. Hello. It's so nice to be here. Once again, I actually have a question for both of you listening to this conversation, because I can follow along with conversations. My question is, is where do you start the education of people who are ignorant of what you do and or are functionally ignorant? Why should I do this? You know, I have no idea. I didn't know what this was even before I met you. This is just me speaking. So then where do you start that education?

Well, the great part about 3D printing today is that there are actually a lot of service bureaus and other things out there. So you don't have to know anything about 3D printing to just start to experience it. But think about it this way. You're married. You might want to give your wife a wonderful anniversary present that's very personal. And you can go to a department store and you can just buy a bottle of perfume. But imagine if you could buy a bottle of perfume, you could go online and you could go to a service bureau and you could type in her initials, love, and your name and all of that and have a topper made for that perfume bottle and then box that up and give it to her. Isn't that a better gift? Or imagine if it was your mom and you just made her a gift completely from scratch on a 3D printer and sent it to the UPS store to have it printed out. That can be done. And all of that doesn't involve skills that involves a good model library, which is some great things that you can just customize. So it's changing it in that you don't have to go to a retailer. You get to be and choose what you get to buy.

Oh, wow, that is awesome. I didn't even really kind of think of it like that. It's almost the way that video production works in some, in some instances, you know, with my media background, I do some small animation projects in 3D space and like After Effects and things like that. And you know, one of the things for me when I'm working on a project, especially if a client doesn't exactly know, you know, like what they want, they just say, I want something that looks cool. You know, then I can send them to like a template website where they can look at a bunch of templates of After Effects projects and kind of choose something that they like and then we'll take that and then kind of customize it specifically for what they're trying to do. So is that what you mean with the template library? Kind of similar thing.

That's a great way to talk about it because actually the templates, I mean, you know, think about what would PowerPoint be without templates? Right. And Right. So, you know, that's where 3D printing is going to go much wider in the market is when there are really good, high quality templates.

You know, 3D clip art.

Yeah, 3D clip arts. Great way to talk about it. So if, you know, I love the old car thing too. I have a 72 karma Ghia convertible that I need to make a new little lens for a light inside the car. I can do that if I have those skills. But what about people that don't have those skills? There's a lot they can do and especially with gift giving like Mother's Day, Valentine's Day, Father's Day. Imagine this tie for your dad with his initials in it and buying a ring. You're going to buy an engagement ring for someone. Well, Maybe a custom 3D printed ring holder with, you know, your fiance's, you know, name on it. That something makes it just a little more special.

Or marry me.

That's right.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. That's awesome. You know, you guys are fantastic individuals. Thank you so much for joining us today and talking a little about a little bit about your business for everybody listening out there. You can go check out Tracy and tom@has design.com check out their podcast@3dstartpoint.com co host of WTFF podcast all about 3D printing. Thank you guys so much. Appreciate your time.

Thank you so much for having us.

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