As my hands glide over the white foam surface, I can’t help but think of how much shaping the blank is, well, kind of like surfing. Much like the ocean’s waves – there is a rhythm to surfboard shaping ...

On a recent afternoon in a whitewashed lab in Portland’s Roux Institute, the nozzle inside a massive, whirring 3D printer was squeezing out a plastic surfboard like frosting from a pastry bag. When ...