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Motorola Finds Hardware Partner for Project Ara

Nov 22, 2013, 10:54 AM by Eric M. Zeman

Motorola today announced that it has entered into an agreement with 3D Systems, a company based in South Carolina, to back its Project Ara modular phones. The two companies aim to create a continuous high-speed 3D printing production platform and fulfillment system for the modules needed to build Project Ara devices. 3D Systems will amp up its 3D printing facilities to include conductive and functional materials that can be used by Ara smartphones. Motorola announced Project Ara last month. Ara modular phones will be based on an endoskeleton, which is the structural frame that holds all the modules in place. Device owners then can add modules - an extra battery, new processor, keyboard, display - to the endoskeleton to create their device. Motorola already teamed with the Phonebloks community and hopes to offer an alpha version of its Module Developer's Kit (MDK) sometime this winter. Motorola believes that Project Ara will lower the barrier of entry for hardware makers and result in a vibrant, open community that will let people create unique and compelling devices.

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Zpike

Nov 22, 2013, 1:25 PM

Awesome!

This is easily the most exciting ting that has happened in the mobile devices market in a decade.

Yama Gama

It is exciting, but will it really take off? I remember when companies started marketing internal computer components more directly to consumers; it didn't really become a thing (except, of course, among hobbyists [which will always be a relatively sm...
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