MakerBot Industries

Warranty? Pssh...

Here’s the second of Pattywac’s design challenges. ¹  The chosen design will receive $40.00 in cash.  MakerBot is further sweetening the pot with an additional $100.00 in store credit.   Here are the details:

All submissions to this challenge must assist a Makerbot in doing something it was NOT designed to do.  I’m not saying that you would win if you turned the Makerbot into a robot that danced while it made you custom cupcakes, got you a glass of milk, and then carried you to the couch so you could take a nap…….. but you would probably win.

Rules:

1. Needs to be printable (at least partly… Unicorns and Frostruders included) on a Makerbot
2. Needs to have something to do with a holiday that occurs during Nov, Dec, or Jan.
3. Post submissions on Thingiverse by 8pm CST on Dec 22, 2010.
4. Multiple entries are allowed, but they must be distinct from one another.
5. To enter be sure and tag your Thing with the word “makerme”

The entries will be judged using the following criteria:

• Number of Likes on Thingiverse
• Number of times it has been made by someone else
• Average Thingiverse rating
• Makerbot printability (not just fitting it in the space but also how many separate prints are required)
• Effort put into design (based on testing and revisions (if at all needed), how well does it fit the challenge)
• Mechanical design (based on # of pieces, possible modes for failure, etc)
• Does it build on previous challenge winners?
• Future for use in other Thingiverse designs
• Are multiple (editable) file formats provided?
• Extra points will be awarded to entries that can be entered into both challenges!

Design something and enter today!

1. Photo courtesy of Chad Cloman [↩]