MakerBot Industries

Science Hack Day SF is a weekend long gathering “that brings together various types of geeks in the same physical space for a brief but intense period of collaboration, hacking, and creating awesome things.”  The winning team of Stephanie and Eden won the “Best Physical Hack” competition which took place on November 13-14, 2010 with their Grassroots Aerial Mapping hack and will share the prize of a CupCake CNC Ultimate Kit!  Congratulations Stephanie and Eden!

Here’s some sketches and pictures from their winning contribution:

Grassroots Aerial Mapping Hack Sketch

Grassroots aerial mapping - results!

For some additional pictures of their progress:

• http://www.flickr.com/photos/blech/5180641977/
  
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/blech/5181240904/

Thingiverse user Pattywac has been running some pretty amazing design giveaways recently.  By pooling his own money with that of other Thingiverse users and coming up with interesting challenges, we’ve seen some pretty awesome results.  Who did Pattywac choose as the winners?  Well, first, a message from the giveaway sponsor himself:

I’d like to thank everyone for entering.  It was a great turnout and there were some awesome designs, it really was hard to pick the winners.  Thanks again to TwoTimes for more than doubling the prize pool.

Anyone that is willing to donate to the prize pool for the next Design Challenge is free to join the discussion in the Makerbot Google Group forum.

-Pattywac

MakerBot Improvement Design Giveaway Winner is…

Z Axis Extender Kit for Makerbot Cupcake by Zydac

The Z Axis Extender Kit for Makerbot Cupcake by Zydac!  Pattywac said this was a tight race (between community likes, # of copies out there, and printability on the makerbot) but the extender kit won because it goes a long way (pun intended) to improving the Makerbot.

Rubber Bands Design Giveaway Winner is…

Rubber Band Gear Mechanism by Skimbal

Skimbal’s Rubber Band Gear Mechanism!  Pattywac said he chose this one because it had over 40 likes by community members and it has a good future for use in other projects.

Congratulations to Zydac and Skimbal!  Thank you to Pattywac and Twotimes for posting the design giveaways, putting up the giveaway dough, and judging!  I can’t wait for the next one!