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Pattywac Design Challenge: Makerbot your way to your New Years resolution

Makerbot your way to your New Years resolution

Makerbot your way to your New Years resolution

Thingiverse champion Pattywac has another challenge for you!1  The chosen design will receive $50.00 from Pattywac and $100.00 in MakerBot store credit provided by MakerBot Industries!  Here are the details:

All submissions to this challenge must be related in some way to a New Years Resolution

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 New Years Resolution
  3. Post submissions on Thingiverse by 8pm CST on Jan 30, 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 “NewYears2011

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?
  1. Photo courtesy of Seb Cooper []
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