MakerBot Giveaway!
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!
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Jordan Hoff
I’m assuming the winner is based on awesomeness of design, not random selection correct?
anonymous
What happens if we already own a Makerbot, but want to participate in the contest? Can we specify that we just want one of the smaller prizes if we win?
Batist
Hi Bre,
can it be a design to make on a laser cutter? Or is it Makerbot only?
We’re making some secret lasercut thingy and plan to publish it anyway, but it would be nice to submit it in this challenge.
Cheers,
Batist.
Paul Lenoue
Great contest, and I’d like to enter but I doubt I’d be able to learn a 3D program and make the pieces in time to submit an entry. What I had in mind was a game where the MakerBot makes the map squares and playing pieces. The map squares are 100mm and divided up into nine smaller squares. While some squares are blank, most of them will have basic geometric shapes rising up, like circles, triangles, etc. Some squares will have multiple shapes stacked on them, like a smaller circle on top of a larger circle.
The playing pieces can be made to look like anything: steampunk dirigibles, anime mecha, bottled city of Kandor, giant mutant zombie Bre Pettis, etc. However the bases of the pieces are made with inverse geometric shapes that match the ones on the board. This is so pieces with a circle in their base can move onto any open or circle square, but not on a star or triangle square. Furthermore, some pieces will have ascending shapes, like a triangle on a triangle, so they are the only ones who can move onto a square with a corresponding stacked shape, all others will not fit and fall over.
The game is played by each player (anywhere from two to fifty) choosing two to four game squares (depending on how long they want the game to last). The players move their pieces around the board to control the smaller squares, as they get points for how many squares they control. The more geometric shapes on a square the more points it is worth. A player controls a smaller square by either placing a piece on top of it or by surrounding it.
During a players turn they can spend points to buy more pieces to bring into play, spend points to move a piece, or use points for battle. When a piece is moved into a smaller square where another piece is already located, they are evenly matched at 1-1 and get a bonus for how many levels of shapes is under the defending piece, thus a piece on a square that has a circle on a circle on a circle gets +3. Either player can spend points to add to their pieces total and the highest number wins. In a tie both pieces perish. At the end of the turn any unspent points are put in the player’s victory total. The first player to reach a set amount of victory points wins.
If people like this game they can make more decorative boards and paint them, like instead of using plain circles they could make a small forest of tiny trees in a circle shape so any piece with a circle shape in it’s base will fit, then use taller trees for the stacked circles.
So, as you can see there’s really no chance of me learning a 3D program like Blender _and_ making dozens of these pieces, enough for at least two people to play a game, before the deadline.
Bre Pettis
Awesomeness of design is a good way to put it! You can participate if you already have a MakerBot. You can enter lasercut designs.
the doctor
do you have to live in america, or is the contest open to people from all over the world?
Tj
hi i need a little help. iv already made something’s to send in, however i’m working on my favorite idea using blender and when i get to high say the 100mm – 130mm range my object just disappears
and i cant work on it any more. If anyone knows a solution id appreciate it. Thank you