When we made MakerBot we made it so it would be hackable so that you could buy the pieces for a MakerBot and make different things with them, including different 3D printers. Chris Meyer has done just that. He’s put together a cool mill/reprap style design that utilizes the mostly assembled electronics to control it. AWESOME! Hackable MakerBot components for the win!
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Gian Pablo got a MakerBot and has been hotrodding it. It’s BEAUTIFUL! He’s also done an amazing job of documenting it.
If you’re into MakerBot at all you’ll want to check out the following posts he’s made to his blog:
Calibrating Skeinforge
Making a MakerBot Part 1
Making a MakerBot Part 2 Terminal Block
Making a MakerBot Part 3 Heated Build Platform
Making a MakerBot Part 4 – Paxstruder
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The Crashspace MakerBot crew out of LA put on an amazing performance at the handmade music night there.
From the MakerBot Music Google Group:
We had a Handmade Music event at CRASHSpace in Los Angeles. We currently have three MakerBots and had a performance of a piece written specifically for them by Frank Capodieci.
One thing that I discovered while processing the MIDI files into gcode – mid2cnc.py does not seem to handle rests/silences. The three MIDI files play back on the computer the same duration. The three gcode files had vastly different build times. The ppi setting did not affect the overall playback time, just the pitch of the individual notes.
This is a fantastic off-label use of a MakerBot! We designed the MakerBot with hackability as our top priority because we knew that if we made it so that people could hack it that they would do things with it way beyond what we could imagine. This is an amazing example of hacked excellence… the hacking just sounds so good!
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