MakerBot Build Party Success!
The MakerBot Cupcake has been described in various places as a machine that can “make anything you desire.” Well, we are putting more and more thought into what might be done with an army of such capable, affordable bots working in tandem. (By analog, think of last year’s news about the low-cost PS3 supercomputer, only desktop fab-edition.)
From this idea we invented the “bot farm,” the personal fabrication equivalent of the render farm model in use in the film/animation industry to network scores and scores of computers to crunch through endless calculations necessary to accomplish tasks like hanging the right shadow off of Buzz Lightyear’s nose. We are spending September putting our first bot farm together and running it through its paces, and to help build the army of robots needed we have been drawing on the local army of MakerBot Operators to help us out.
Last week we had a great turn out at the MakerBot Build Party. A dozen people came to NYC Resistor and collectively built four bots in one night. Thanks go out to all the builders and those behind the scenes who made this happen.
Attendees ranged from experienced MakerBot operators to a new visitor who had not heard of MakerBot until the morning of the build party. It was a friendly bunch, sharing tips and tricks across the work table as we enjoyed each other’s company — everyone walked away knowing more about building and printing on the MakerBot than they did before they arrived.
We are tempted to throw another one of these events the next time a window for it opens up — perhaps with pit teams and time trials. We’ll keep you posted on the MakerBot blog.
The bot farm army gained four new members…..
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