Aside from its design aesthetic, The Eruptor is all about its unique embedded ecosystem consisting of leading-edge technology utilized by educators, scientists, makers, entrepreneurs, artists and pioneers. We are creating a community of like-minded professionals and companies from diverse sectors occupying an 80,000 sf (gross) facility all ideating, and creating something special. Sharing and innovating, yet independent while making, the Eruptor contains a series of tools, both hardware and software driven that help collapse the time it takes for its resident companies (large and small) to crack open new markets and grow existing ones. The creative relationships that will exist within the eruptor between persons, place, partners and products fosters ingenuity making The Eruptor an exciting new model for facilitating 21st century advanced digital fabrication and economic development.