MakerBot Industries

While at toorcamp, we made a machine. Matt, who runs the Metrix space, which will soon be a coffee shop/design workshop, took the machine off our hands and it’s making things like the D20 seen above!

It worked great in the desert, but for some reason, it needed to be tweaked a bit when it returned to civilization, the extrusion was coming out to fast and was squishing down each layer. We changed the speed from 26.5 to 29 to make it stretch out more and the layer hight from 3.75 to 3.5 and it seemed much happier.

This is pretty standard for occasional MakerBot maintenance and I liken it to the days when you got a car and you had to know how it worked because there wasn’t someone to change the oil, you had to do it! Because you put it together, you know how it works and you can tweak it! I’ve found that once a machine is printing happily, it needs very little maintenance to print happily for months.

You don’t have do tweak your MakerBot in a vacuum. The community is there to help. There’s a google group for those that have bought MakerBots and the Forums are lively and full of good advice. If those don’t work, you can always send us a note and we’ll do our best to point you in the right direction.

In the spirit of hot rods, here’s a video that the gang over at Metalab put together of a car!