Top Ten Things To Make With Your MakerBot Automated Build Platform
The epic launch of the MakerBot Automated Build Platform heralds a new dawn of possibilities for your MakerBot. The MakerBot truly becomes a mini-factory with the addition of the ABP, and can print out as many connectors as you need for the geodesic dome of your dreams. Charles Pax perused the Thingiverse for the things you can print-and-forget with the MakerBot Automated Build Platform. I turned it into a Top Ten list.
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#10 Your Name
Everyone loves vanity plates. Print out your name to display on your mantle, or spell out words for your friends.
#9 Chess Set
Replace lost pieces or entire lost chess sets! Give them as gifts, or use them as paper weights.
Bring a 16th-century wooden puzzle to life by printing this reproduction by George Hart. There are dozens of individual pieces, so the ABP will make it a lot easier to print this thing. Bre likes to wear his as a necklace sometimes.
#7 Jewelery
Print earrings, necklaces, rings, bracelets, or even anklets with the ABP. This modular bracelet has slots for LED lights.
Be your own Matrushka nesting sphere factory.
Replace an injured foosball player or recruit an entire team using the ABP.
#4 A City
These buildings are from Tokyo, New York and San Francisco, designed by Thingiverse user gpvillamil. A great challenge would be a replica of New York City printed with the Makerbot Automated Build Platform. There are also models of stone houses on Thingiverse, so you can re-create a medieval village if you’d like.
Start printing and don’t stop until you’re swarmed with alien visitors.
The idea of having an actual barrel filled to the brim with printed monkeys brings joy to my heart. Please, someone, print me a barrel full of monkeys with your ABP. You know you want to!
#1 A MakerBot
It must be done! Just imagine, MakerBots making other MakerBots, non-stop, day and night.
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AtkinsSJ
The buildings made me think – could there be a reasonably simple way to download and print models from Google Earth? Then you could set it printing your whole neighbourhood!
tmophoto
Chess set made form lego minifigs. pawns would be smallest and different colors could be different “players” king and queen would be 4x size.
Feilen
@AtkinsSJ
3DripperDX lets you rip models from almost any DX compatible application, including google earth. Rip all of a city and cut up into prints, batch convert in skienforge and boom, printable city.
WILLIAM DANIEL
WOW!! I’d like to try your product out! i’m already running full with ideas!! wish i had the money!! GRrr!
Stephanie in CT
Would love one of these for PMC clay. Any ideas to create a makerbot that uses pmc clay. then the pieces could be fired and finished. Voila fine silver jewelry. Other PMC metals are available too.
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