MakerBot Industries

We’re big fans of open source here at MakerBot. Not only are all of our designs are open source, but we use many open source tools to run and build the machines. So when we heard about a conference about Open Sourcing everything, we were really psyched! After all, thats one our big dreams: that people will use MakerBots to build open source physical objects! We even created a website called Thingiverse to make it easier for people to do just that.

Anyway, if you’re interested in this sort of thing, its going to be really fun. Also, the more people that show up that are interested in MakerBot, the more likely it is that we can convince the other conference attendees that we should hold a session on open source hardware in general, and open source 3D printable objects in particular. We’ll be bringing our latest CupCake CNC machine, and it should be a really fun day of printing.

Here are the details:

1. Make sure you register! The deadline to register is by noon tomorrow. Sorry about the short notice.
2. Its at the UNICEF headquarters in Midtown. Directions are here.
3. It starts promptly at 8am. So don’t go out partying the night before.
4. Let us know if you’re going to stop by. We’d love to say hi and chat.