Inventables announces Bart Dring’s retirement
When Bart was considering working at Inventables we met at Starbucks and he told me he was going to retire after Inventables in about 5 years. I remember thinking “Yea that’s fine that’s a long time from now”. I feel like I blinked and the day arrived. Today is that day, and is with extremely warm wishes that I announce the retirement of Bart Dring. A living legend in the Maker Movement, Bart played a pivotal role in growing Inventables from a “Hardware Store for Designers” where we were distributing other companies materials into a manufacturer where we made our own products. It all started when Bart invented the MakerSlide. He had the idea that a low cost open source linear bearing for CNC equipment and extremely easy to integrate into your design could be helpful in a lot of applications. After running a successful Kickstarter campaign for Makerslide, Bart was selling MakerSlide out of his garage. Bart and I first met up at Maker Faire Detroit and he showed m