MakerBot Industries

MakerBot is in the New Scientist. I love this magazine!

Over the next few minutes, this “MakerBot” will do something I can only dream of doing: it will create a spare part of itself as an insurance against future mishaps. Staring at the Heath Robinson-style kit before me, it is hard to believe that it – and a few hundred other devices – are paving the way to an era of desktop machines that can make just about anything, including copies of themselves.

via Rise of the replicators – tech – 02 June 2010 – New Scientist.

At MakerBot Industries, we want to get the MakerBot into the hands of young people in schools, colleges, and universities. We’re starting by creating the MakerBot Educators Group for folks who are students, teachers, professors, and folks who just think that actually doing things and making things should be an integral part education.

We figure that students can put theory into practice and get practical manufacturing experience with a MakerBot. We want students to be able to make their imagination real by exploring the world of 3D design and fabrication while exploring manufacturing in a tangible, personal way.

We imagine a utopia where students get hands on access to 3D printing in a room full of happily buzzing MakerBots and share their designs on Thingiverse where there are already 1000′s of models that are ready to download and print!

A lot of you are already either teachers, professors, students or are involved in education in some way. So this group is for you all to share your ideas and resources! Join in the conversation!

Inspired by this cover of the book Godel, Escher, Bach, tshannon has created MIT Shadow Sculpture using three orthogonal shadows in the shapes of the letters: M.I.T. Now choose your favorite three letters to do the same! Wanna represent your college, school, or university? Upload your school pride in the form of clever things to Thingiverse!

Creative Commons is raising money through June 30 to fund its recently launched Catalyst Grants program.

Catalyst Commons want to make it possible for individuals and organizations to leverage the power of Creative Commons. Their goal is raise $100,000 from CC supporters to fund the grants for some of their projects. We think this is awesome. For more information, visit the page here.

We’ll have the teeny tiniest booth at this trade show. #2812. Come visit us at the Javits Center for the Atlantic Design and Manufacturing show from June 8 – June 10.

We’ll have MakerBots MakerBotting! It’s free to go to this event if you register. We’ve never been to this event but we hear it the place to check out machinery!