MakerBot Industries

The gang over at POPSCI have made a MakerBot. Awesome!

It sounds like the promise of an ad in the back of a PopSci issue from the 1950s. Build your own replicating machine! Make anything you desire in your own garage! But that’s exactly what veteran hacker Bre Pettis and his pals offer with their CupCake CNC kit: a computer-controlled 3-D printer that can whip up almost any object of less than four inches on a side from two kinds of plastic. The company’s goal is to make home manufacturing cheap and common.

They mention that it’s hard to use the software. I wish they’d had the latest version of ReplicatorG when they did the article. Printing has become a lot easier since then!

I had a chance to go back and forth with John Carnett who put it together and not onlly is he an awesome photographer, he’s a totally legit tinkerer who’s done some cool stuff!

via Making the Makerbot, A DIY 3-D Printer | Popular Science.