I printed a stereoscopic viewer by Kongorilla and it took about 6 hours of printing time and it fit together great. I lasercut some acrylic mirrors and slapped them in and supperglued it shut since I didn’t have the right screws on hand. It works great! We’ll have these on hand at Maker Faire! If you haven’t seen Kongorilla’s pdf of images, it’s freaking awesome. Check it! Kongorilla won a runner’s up prize in the MakerBot Giveaway. This is a super fine design and great documentation.

So far my favorite thing to do is watch a slideshow on flickr.

It turns out youtube now has 3D movies and these viewers work perfectly!

“So what do people make on a MakerBot?”

We get this question all the time and the truth is that there is no one thing that people need a MakerBot for. Some people use them for practical objects and some people use them to make decorative objects, some people prototype contraptions and others, like the amazing and wonderful Becky Sterns, make a Yeti! So awesome!!!!

Becky is going to have this yeti at Maker Faire and has agreed to let it stand guard over the MakerBot table for part of the Faire. You have to come check it out!

The end of May is MakerBots out in the world time! Besides Google I/O and Maker Faire, MakerBot will be exhibiting at Techcrunch Disrupt and I will also be on a panel at 2:00pm on Wednesday called “Getting it Built” with John Biggs, Editor, CrunchGear, Adam Hocherman, Founder & President, American Innovative, and Liam Casey, CEO, PCH Internationalas well. Should be good stuff, if you’re there, make sure to find me and say hi!

Maker Faire is an extravaganza of making things! It’s this weekend in San Mateo and it’s going to be a blast!

We’re getting ready for Maker Faire this weekend by tightening all the screws on our MakerBots and packing lots of ABS so we can print things out all weekend. We may even have a Frostruder set up if we can find a compressor or an airtank and a bicycle pump. We’ll have a table set up to show MakerBots MakerBotting!

If you’re planning to be there, plan to find us and say hi!

We’ve going to SF for Maker Faire a little early so that we can share MakerBots at the Google I/O party. It’s going to be a blast. If you’re going to be at the Google I/O event, make sure to say hi! Here’s what they say about it:

After Hours hosted by The Google I/O Team
Wenesday, May 19 at 6:30pm – 10:30pm PST
Level 3 of Moscone West, Keynote Room
For this year’s official Google I/O After Hours party, we’ve partnered with the talented teams behind Maker Faire and Gadgetoff to turn our party space into an innovative playground — with the latest gadgets, robots, vehicles, games and technologies. GadgetFest at I/O – an interactive playground featuring futuristic technologies, robots, 3D visualizations & simulations, and other innovative gadgets.

Hope to see you there!