MakerBot Industries

Jonathan Barclay has done some very cool exploratory experiments with ABS plastic and RIT diy. Cool!

via Dyeing white abs rapid prototyped parts – jonathanbarclay.com.

While capturing media for a new “Meet the MakerBot Operators” profiles series, I have been microphoning MakerBots in the BotCave while printing objects. As an unexpected fruit of my labor: I am  issuing “MakerBot Sound Library 001: The Pulley” @ Thingiverse to encourage attention to the bots’ sound/music-related properties. This #001 edition focuses on the sounds associated with printing the pulley object.

What does your print sound like? Does your bot have a voice, a lisp, a rattle that you want to share with the world?

• Pulley part 7.
• Y-axis shift.
• Z-axis shift.
• Finished printing “bark.”

The community is encouraged to make use of these sounds in video/sound/music/etc projects associated with their print projects — and share back by issuing compositions, shaping sounds and beats, creating beat loops/battle breaks and instruments, etc, as derivatives of the pertinent Sound Library edition. Or how about sharing your MakerBot recordings as a Sound Library of your own so that others can take a listen? (Grab the next consecutive Sound Library edition number and go for it.)

Over Memorial Day weekend, MakerBot MakerBot staffer Isaac has been evangelizing the MakerBot as tool for sound at Movement: Detroit’s Electronic Music Festival, and I am exciting about the possibilities. I simply have no idea yet what need or use exists for MakerBot sounds, and I count on you to grab the samples and go for it — create Ableton Live instruments, chiptunes-friendly encodings, ringtones, startup-tones, pbx voicemail menu trees …

• X-axis long cross.
• Tweezers.
• The Raft.
• ABS filament extrusion.

The original recordings are largely mono, 48k, 24bit .wav files using a boom microphone, contact microphone and Marantz handheld recorder. This edition being the first audio-only thing @ Thingiverse, please share feedback about what sounds and media format (bit rate/sample rate/format/codec) you need with me.

Belakor saw my tweet about pscht’s upload to the MakerBot music page on the wiki and promptly made this video! Now you can play tetris  on your MakerBot!

The LA Times went and visited the MakerBots at Crashspace and wrote and article. Check it out!

Photo credit: beak90sfx

Have you gotten a frostruder and got it up and running? If so, we’d love to hear how it’s going! Drop us a note in the comments

So what is the mystery object being created by the Tested MakerBot? There’s only one way to find out. Watch Will Smith print out a mystery object!

One word comes to mind to describe the chess set design by Peter: WOW. Cut out two sets of chess pieces and grid squares of two colors that you like. Places the grid pieces on a 12×12 inch ~4.5mm sheet of acrylic in an 8×8 grid for the chess board itself. This is neat.

Maker Faire was great! There were MakerBots everywhere! We got to hang out in the same area as RepRap, Fab@Home, and CTMTM! We saw lots of friends and made lots of new ones!

Brian Jepson got a chance to corner Will Langford at the Cambridge Mini Maker Faire in April. Check it out! Via Makezine

Imagine a violin that you can play with a matchstick! Recently uploaded in Thingiverse by MaskedRetriever, its created quite a buzz. Inspired by the comic XKCD, its really cool so if you have not seen it yet, here it is. Now fiddle on!!!