MakerBot in Wired Magazine
MakerBot gets a nice mention in the latest Wired Magazine and they made a video with both Chris Anderson and a MakerBot in it! (Check out the CC sticker on the model airplane in the back!)
It all starts with the tools. in a converted brewery in Brooklyn, Bre Pettis and his team of hardware engineers are making the first sub-$1,000 3-D printer, the open source MakerBot. Rather than squirting out ink, this printer builds up objects by squeezing out a 0.33-mm-thick thread of molten ABS plastic. Five years ago, you couldn’t get anything like this for less than $125,000.
During a visit in late November, 100 boxes containing the ninth batch of MakerBots are lined up and ready to go out the door (as a customer, I’m thrilled to know that one of them is coming to me). Nearly 500 of these 3-D printers have been sold, and with every one, the community comes up with new uses and new tools to make them even better. For example, a prototype head delivers a resolution of 0.2 mm. Another head can hold a rotating cutter, turning the printer into a CNC router. (CNC is short for computer numerical control, which simply means that the machines are driven by software.) And yet another can print with icing, for desserts.
Out of the box, the MakerBot produces plastic parts from digital files. Want a certain gear right now? Download a design and print it out yourself. Want to modify an object you already have? Scan it (a researcher at the University of Cambridge has developed a technology that will allow you to create a 3-D file by rotating the object in front of your webcam), tweak the bits you want to change with the free SketchUp software from Google, and load it into the ReplicatorG app. Within minutes, you have a whole new physical object: a rip, mix, and burn of atoms.
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Arno Jansen
Its awesome to see the makerbot in more and more places! I hope this really takes off. I read this article the other day about a prized challenge to get self fabricating machines to the next level. Will you pick up the challenge?
http://foresight.org/gadaprize.php
Good luck with Makerbot industries!
Laser Cutting
Sub $1000 works for me! This is something no serious design studio, or hobbyist for that manner would want to be without. Now only if we can get that special putty that will elementally and molecularly arrange itself to be the exact material that is being copied. The stuff of science fiction today, but so was a tool like this only a couple of years ago! I want a MakerBot!
Laser Cutting
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Sub $1000 works for me! This is something no serious design studio, or hobbyist for that manner would want to be without. Now only if we can get that special putty that will elementally and molecularly arrange itself to be the exact material that is being copied. The stuff of science fiction today, but so was a tool like this only a couple of years ago! I want a MakerBot!
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