MakerBot Industries

For many MakerBot users, the plethora of downloads available on Thingiverse is more than enough to satisfy their printing needs. For other users, the MakerBot serves as a tool with which they can express themselves.  Geoffrey Wardman is one of the second class of MakerBot user: he’s been using his CupCake to help with design and testing of the Magnetic, interconnecting, Modular, Mounting system – or MiMMs.

This simple, elegant, yet brilliant design has gone through months of testing to create a mounting system for all of the portable electronics in your life. His CupCake allowed him to make modifications to his idea, offering an affordable way to prototype his designs. As he put it himself, “This is a product that was fully enabled by Makerbot – without my Cupcake it would only be an idea.”

Cheers, Geoff!  One of MakerBot’s goals was always to make industrial prototyping faster, cheaper, and more accessible.  Thank you for being an inspiration to all the inventors out there!

If you want to find out more, or get your hands on a set, Geoff is using kickstarter to get his product to the next level.  Best of luck!

Click for full comic. WARNING: contains a vaguely "adult" word.

Can you believe it?  Famous internet comic XKCD is talking about us!  Well, the trend in which we and Thingiverse are engaging.  Isn’t that amazing?

*Psst*

All spoofing aside, we all know that 3d printing is right on the cusp of really grasping its possibilities; this comic is just tapping into the zeitgeist that we’re all feeling.  The future, with its promises of instant delivery of goods and a smarter, more efficient economy are almost tangible.  I can almost feel 3d picking us all up on its wings and taking us from these economic doldrums.

*Psst*

No, really, I can almost feel its enormous wings beating, picking us up gently with their mammoth claws…just like when the eagles save Frodo at the end of the Lord of the Rings, and depositing us in a land of plenty, where pure ideas can become material almost instantly.

*Psst…did you actually read this comic?*

Oh, no…ok, I get it.  Forget what I said.