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#10. MakerBot Stepstruder MK6 toolhead

MakerBot Stepstruder MK6 Toolhead

#9. Ninja Customer Support Team

MakerBot Customer Support Team: Isaac, Ethan, Matt

#8. Kid tested, Operator Approved: Detailed, Step-By-Step Assembly Instructions

Putting together a user-assembled kit with as many moving parts as  MakerBot takes some patience. Thankfully, we have an actively-maintained wiki to guide you through the process. Have an additional question about the instructions? Fire a question off to support and we’ll add pictures and text to help you (and everybody) out!

#7. Completely Open Source, with Multiple Toolheads and Modular Design

MakerBot Unicorn Pen Plotter

MakerBots are Open Hardware products, with available source files and plenty of resources to extend, expand, and reinvent your bot any direction your dreams take you. Purchase a Unicorn Pen Plotter and Frostruder MK2 to sketch, etch, or even make food sculptures! And there are even more community-designed case mods and toolheads on Thingiverse.

#6. Epic Choice of Colors and Materials!

A few of our range of MakerBot ABS and PLA Plastics!

We’ve spent a lot of time working to find the best and coolest materials for printing your designs.  Check out our selection and let our research work for you. We release new materials and colors regularly!

#5. Heated Build Platform and Automated Build Platform options ship standard in kit

You decide — do you want a non-motorized Heated Build Platform for the ultimate in adhesion and ABS shrinkage prevention?  Or do you want to use your Thing-O-Matic as a high-volume desktop fabricator with the Automated Build Platform?  It’s all in the box.

#4. An Endless supply of objects to print from Thingiverse.com

Thingiverse.com

New to 3D printing? Check out Thingiverse to see what MakerBot Operators the world over are designing — then print their models yourself! Many modellers on Thingiverse are MakerBot owners, so their files are already set to print!

Already have designs? Put them up and get feedback and props from the community.

#3. Our MakerBot User Groups are fun

MakerBot User Group: Bioengineering Design & Prototype Studio, Arizona State University (Tempe, AZ)

User Groups as far away as New Zealand have been meeting up and bringing their MakerBots together.

#2. Print off SD card … and via the MakerBot Gen4 Interface Board Kit!

MakerBot Gen4 Interface Board Kit

#1. Make Anything!

MakerBot Operator Schuyler Loves His Thing-O-Matic

Your imagination is the limit with this machine and there is no more satisfying experience than watching something you designed or downloaded materialize before your very eyes.