MakerBot Automated Build Platform
The future of Personal Manufacturing is now! Introducing the MakerBot Automated Build Platform. It’s a heated conveyor belt for your 3D personal manufacturing system! Instead of just making one thing at a time, with the MakerBot Automated Build Platform, you’ll be able to make lots of things at a time. When the MakerBot has MakerBotted something, it just rolls of the MakerBot Automated Build Platform and begins to make the next part!
You know how some machines make one item, and then you start the process over, like a Belgian waffle iron? Well, until today 3D printers pretty much resembled waffle irons. You removed each part by hand, reset the print head, and manually started the next job. With the addition of the MakerBot Automated Build Platform, your waffle iron now resembles the machine they make Eggos with at the factory. You get A LOT of Eggos coming out of the Eggo machine hot and fresh, down a conveyor system and into a box of goodness!
We at MakerBot Industries are really excited, because we love making things, but now we really love making LOTS of things. Now it’s easier than ever to make a lot of one item, or a sequence of different items. All without ever having to reset the machine, load a separate file, or get in there with your hands to remove parts. If I’m still not totally clear regarding exactly what the MakerBot Automated Build Platform will mean for you, here is a movie, to help lock in the key points.
So consider the possibilities. Say you need 10 of that printable tool handle, or 40 of those cable clips. Or you want to build a foosball table, and print out all the plastic men. Or print your own chess set? How about printing out the plastic components of another machine all in a single batch print?
With this latest addition to the MakerBot family. Your machine will not be just a “prototyper” anymore. With the MakerBot Automated Build Platform, your MakerBot becomes a desktop personal manufacturing system making useful object after useful object.
The Automated Build Platform is available now. Get it and turn your MakerBot into your own factory! The MakerBot Automated Build Platform is a perfect match with the MakerBot MK5 Plastruder and MakerBot Filament Spindle.
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Rob
Excellent, this will defiantly be a game changer in the world of 3D printing. I couldn’t get any sound from the first video but I managed to dig down to the underlying URL: http://blip.tv/file/get/Makerbot-MakerBotAutomatedBuildPlatform390.flv – I opened it VLC and it started rebuilding its font cache but after a minute it started playing fine and with sound.
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Henkka
Awesome!!! I’m heading to the MB store right now… Possibilities are endless and I very happy that this happened sooner than I thought. Way to go !!!
Oren Beck
The link posted by Rob is dead @1415 or so central time.
Bre Pettis
Hey Rob, I replaced the video and now there is sound, yay! – Bre
drew
looks great!
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Wade
Most awesome! Near infinite production rates on the horizon! Well, not quite, but still, this is very, very cool. Great work guys!
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LeoM
Very nice !
An question, can we expect an Heated build platform upgrade kit for ? It’ll be sad to have an useless heated buil platform on a box, we just have to dissasemble an clean the platform for use her in the automated ?
Thx for you great job in upgrading this wonderfull machine.
Edgar Castelo
Hey, attach the Makerbot to my Extruder-Replicator, and you can have multiples of those, AT THE SAME TIME!
One active bot, moving himself, and other slave 3D Pantographs!
With the conveyor belt, it’s multiples of multiples!
Bre Pettis
Hey LeoM, Save that HBP for bigger things. The ABP has a limitation of about 9cm in the x direction. The HBP can use the full 10cms. – Bre
Edgar Castelo
I’m so excited with this I got to make a new Page for it:
https://sites.google.com/site/buildyourstuff/3d-pantograph-for-extruders
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Twotimes
I ordered one of these on Monday and the store page said to wait 1 to 3 weeks. It just came in (it’s Wednesday)… holy crap, I’m happy you guys figured out your shipping process! My hat’s off to you.
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teeh
Could the plataform be used with a standart mendel prusa ?
How much more in price to get all smd solders done and included ?
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