MakerBot Industries

We might have started with Stephen Colbert, but we didn’t stop there.  Since last week,  our artist-in-residence Jonathan Monaghan has been busy scanning artists, bloggers, hackers, musicians, comedians and our friends — whoever we find interesting or notable and could visit our offices.

If you want to have a look to see who we’ve been scanning, have a look at the Thingiverse user “Friends.”  We’ll be adding to this over the course of the next few weeks, and then,  June 30th we’ll be having a party to show off what we’ve done.

This is going to be part art show, part party — we’ll be printing busts of our New York Notables for visitors to take home.  So make sure to pencil in a visit to our new workshop for the evening of Thursday June 30th — you won’t want to miss this one.

The Head of Stephen Colbert

As a surprise for the recent Colbert Report interview of Bre Pettis, Bre scanned Stephen’s head and asked some Thingiverse users to create mashups of Stephen Colbert’s head.  Within a day the designs started to pour in.  At last count, there’s 28 models tagged with “Colbert.”

What will you do with Stephen Colbert’s head?

Emergency Kit Backpack for kids by bryanandaimee

Thingiverse citizen Twotimes recently organized a “Cardboard Bag Design Challenge.”  The winner was to receive $50.00 from Twotimes himself with MakerBot kicking in $100.00 in store credit!  Well, you’ve been kept in suspense long enough – the winner is…

The Emergency Kit Backpack for Kids by bryanandaimee!  Twotimes chose bryanandaimee‘s designs because he met all of the requirements for the challenge¹ , provided excellent detailed directions, great assembly instructions along with lots of pictures of his assembly. ^2 3  Designs for an emergency backpack, as well as a suggestion for contents, are a timely reminder for disaster preparedness given recent natural disasters.  In the spirit of the challenge, bryanandaimee made use of lots of used, found, and/or recycled materials in the construction of these little backpacks.  Obviously, they could be used for any number of purposes.

bryanandaimee, please leave a comment here so that we can get your prizes!

1. Awesomeness, attention to detail, discussion and comments generated, completeness of entry, and number of likes [↩]
2. I’m pretty sure photos of cute kids didn’t exactly hurt! [↩]
3. And, really, those kids’ excitement about impending disaster is almost infectious. [↩]