MakerBot Industries

In the BotCave we have been loving us some time lapse video in recent months. (Automated Build Platform, Cathedral, and Water Soluble PVA, just to pick three I have put together.) These tiny videos not only allow us to make cool videos with still cameras, but also are really a great way to compress the process of printing an object right down to the best part: the Wow part.

Back when we made the three videos I listed earlier, I used a Canon 7D in combination with Dragon Stop Motion. (Oh, and a modest amount of post-shoot tweaking.) But lately we have a cluster of second-hand Canon PowerShot Sd1000s loaded up with CHDK so that we can experiment with scripts such as Sunset4.¹ (And we are looking to tweak the script to defeat the autofocus and make things happier for printing this kind of work.)

Well, there are so many great time lapse videos being put together by MakerBot Operators² using all sorts of cameras to make these: webcams, HDV cameras, and iPhone 4s. So we gotta ask! What are you using to grab video of your prints?

1. That is what I used for the above video. [↩]
2. Ah, that Betaworks time lapse video! Really raises the bar for all of us! [↩]

The Daily Mail checked out a MakerBot Thing-O-Matic and wrote up an awesome article about the experience. Check it out!

There are multiple levels of epic in this project and this video. Check out the DogBot post on Thingiverse.

1. It’s a DogBot… which is just awesome and fun to say.
2. It’s an OpenSCAD tutorial.
3. It animates within OpenSCAD. WOW!
4. It’s called On Shoulders TV. WIN!
5. Who doesn’t want a DogBot?
6. The presenter, Gavilan, has a great presentation style!

Go project DogBot!

Hot on the heels from contributing the mind-blowing Thingiview functionality to Thingiverse, Veteran MakerBot Operator Tony Buser (“tbuser“) is up to more hijinx, currently designing and printing a Laser Target Scanner on his newly built Thing-O-Matic #3745.

His project is quite gorgeous, and so is his love for his new MakerBot Stepstruder. Here is a tbuser tweet that has been making the rounds in the BotCave, and touching the hearts of all of us involved with launching this new product:

tbuser: More Stepstruder love http://j.mp/fnaQEp Seriously, I want to have it’s babies. #makerbot

Tony Buser, we hope that you and your Stepstruder are very happy together and live long and happy lives!

When I got this in the mail, my jaw dropped and I thought to myself. “Ok, the world is catching on that 3D printing is huge.”

If you haven’t looked at it, check it out and let me know what you think of this article in the comments.