MakerBot Industries

We’ve been growing quickly and so we’re looking to add a shipping tech to our team to help us make the world a better place, one 3D printer at a time. If you think you know someone who might be a good fit, send us an email at hiring@makerbot.com. Here are the details on the open position:

As a shipping tech, you will be responsible for picking, packing and shipping customer orders. We pride ourselves on working hard, being innovative and having fun. By working for us, you will be a part of the next manufacturing revolution.

Pay & Benefits
- $12/hour full time (approximately 40 hours/week)
- Health, Vision and Dental benefits

Duties
- Assemble and pack customer orders
- Process shipping information and print shipping labels
- Maintain appropriate inventory records
- Restock inventory from warehouse – lift up to 40 lbs
- Receive and process inbound inventory shipments
- Perform quality checks on assembled kits to ensure accuracy

Required Skills
- Detail oriented
- Quick learner
- Strong work-ethic and ability to work in a fast-paced environment
- Willingness to grow with the company and recommend improvements to processes & procedures
- Experience using a PC

Desired Skills
- Experience using UPS WorldShip software
- Experience working in a shipping department for a medium/large size company

Please send you resume via email to hiring ‘at” makerbot.com. Job location is Brooklyn, NY.

Bubblegum Pink ABS has arrived!

Hi Everybody-  Some good news for all you people who love printing in color on the CupCake CNC!  You can now get our full selection of colors in 1 pound rolls!  We know that some people just don’t love red, or blue, as much as they love yellow, so now you don’t have to deprive yourself ever again!  Buy all the colors, and then round it out with a 1 pound or 5 pound roll of delicious looking PINK ABS.   For the first week we are also offering a special reduced price to get them out to you on the cheap!

It’s Bubblegum Pink ABS time!

It's pretty hard to make bugfixes look futuristic and cool in a screenshot.

Rejoice, Makerbot Operators: ReplicatorG 0014 is now available!  The focus of this release is bug fixes and stability, so very little has visibly changed, but you should find this release far less likely to hang or break, especially if you’re using Windows or Mac OS X.

We’ve also unleashed v2.0 of the firmware for both the motherboard and the extruder controller into the wild.  You can install them using the firmware uploader built in to ReplicatorG 0013 or later.  The v2 firmware should allow smoother printing over serial connections and reduce unpredictable behavior.

Install it and give it a whirl, and as always let me know if you run into any problems or have suggestions for improving ReplicatorG or the firmware!

A few goodies for advanced users after the cut.

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To celebrate the Desktop Manufacturing issue of MAKE with MakerBot on the cover, we’ve teamed up with the folks at Make: Magazine to give away a CupCake CNC, in the first ever official MakerBot CupCake CNC giveaway and Thingiverse design challenge! One lucky 3D designer will win a CupCake CNC kit for his/her contribution to Thingiverse, and five runners up will receive something special too! Here’s what you do to enter:
       1.        Imagine something you’d like to see printed on a MakerBot CupCake CNC!
       2.        Design your object using any 3D design software you like.
       3.        Upload your design to Thingiverse!
       4.        Share the link to your Thingiverse thing in the comments over on Make: Magazine Blogpost, by May 5th, 2010 at noon PDT.
Don’t have the design chops? Share your idea for a 3D-printable object (step 1 only) in the comments below to still be eligible to win one of five “poor person’s 3D fabbing” prize packs each including:
       •        1 Arduino Duemilanove board (From us!)
       •        A copy of MAKE, Volume 21, the Desktop Manufacturing issue (Courtesy of Makershed)
       •        Maker’s Notebook (Courtesy of Makershed)
       •        1 package of Shapelock Design Plastic (Courtesy of
The Makershed)

Only those who upload a 3D design to Thingiverse and share the link here are eligible to for the giveaway of a CupCake CNC kit. Enter as many times as you like, but you can only win one prize. Although we’ll allow you to submit Things you’ve already designed/posted, we highly encourage you to make something new for the challenge! Winners will be announced on May 12. Need help getting started? Try out Sean’s OpenSCAD tutorial!