MakerBot Industries

Not for building!

Why didn’t I think of this?  Why is there not a Nega-Thingiverse?  Just think – a website for sharing the negative space of things.  What am I talking about?  How about this OpenSCAD model “60mm x 25mm fan model” by Thingiverse citizen MiseryBot? ¹  MiseryBot’s description really explains it all:

Not for building.

Just to be used for modeling.

MiserBot’s model was specifically intended for taking fan-shaped chunks out of other models. ²  Using the OpenSCAD difference function you can easily subtract a “60mm x25mm fan model” shape from any other digital model.  I think this is a neglected area for design and development – the production of negative-things.

1. Why am I asking so many questions? [↩]
2. Although, what do you want to bet someone is going to print it anyhow? [↩]

The stalwarts over at the indomitable Slashdot have picked up a story from Motherboard.tv about our good friends upstairs.  NYC Resistor was, indeed, the swamp from which we dragged ourselves…ok bad metaphor…the nurturing womb from which we crawled…uh…that’s no better is it. 

Anyway, our founders met there and did a lot to help it increase in awesomeness before devoting themselves to MakerBot.Check out the article, the no doubt enlightened discussion over at /. and enjoy the 11-minute video featuring Bre and Adam.

As incredible as RustedRobot’s print of Syvwlch’s printable parametric clock is, a single still photograph just doesn’t do it justice. Two weeks ago there was no such thing as a 3D printed clock. Today you get to watch one in action. Sure, it’s powered by a drill and running a little fast… but this is progress! In the history of the world, there has probably never been a clock that has gone from concept to actuality and run through so many iterations so quickly. Syvwlch has been crunching through versions and derivatives of derivatives of this clock just about as quickly as OpenSCAD can render.