MakerBot Industries

Buy all 3 of the brand new MakerBot Projects today and drive your own 3D printed RC car, generate electricity, and conquer the world with your windup robots!

Today we’re launching MakerBot Projects with 3 fun projects. The MakerBot Wind Up Walkers, The MakerBot Dynamo, and the MakerBot Botmobile Remote Control Car. (Store Link)

MakerBot projects is an ongoing collection of kits to make everything in your world with your MakerBot printer. We’re on a mission to give every MakerBot owner the parts and instructions for making everything in their lives.

The MakerBot Botmobile is the first open source remote control car. MakerBot’s own designer Michael Curry, took everything he learned from creating the Turtle Shell Racers which were featured on the track at Maker Faire, and created the Botmobile kit. All you need to do is get the kit, print out the parts from thingiverse and you’ll have your own RC car. It’s got a great 12 volt motor, a 2 channel radio controller, a tiny servo for steering, rubber racing tires; all rolled into a a ready-to-go kit. The BotMobile kit requires no soldering, all the parts snap together – It really is a perfect weekend project. The body design is a slick dune buggy – and it’s already on thingiverse (link), ready to be printed. You want to change it or customize it? The design files are open source and are ready for you to turn it into a hot rod.

The MakerBot Dynamo is a wonderful project that shows how hand motion is converted into electrical energy. The kit comes with a toy motor, 3 metal screws and 3 large bright LEDs – you print the big gears and a handle on your MakerBot (thingiverse link). Simply put it all together following our assembly instructions to make a simple science project that showcases some basic principles of engineering and energy production. We can’t keep our hands off this thing at the office, and have put in 100s of hours of electricity generation while fidgeting in meetings.

The MakerBot Windup Walker was inspired when Bre declared: “everything on Thingiverse should be able to walk”. The Windup walker pack comes with 5 barebones windup feet, ready to start walking. They’re cool, but they’re mostly soulless and require your creativity to bring them to life. Need a robotic posse? Fire up the MakerBot and start printing them out! Elliot Cohen here at MakerBot modified R.Maker for you to get started (thingiverse link), but we expect a flurry of windup walker designs to start popping up on thingiverse as soon as you start designing the next greatest wind up toy.

Today and through end of day Monday we are offering a limited time special deal. Buy the Botmobile and the Dynamo, and get the windup walkers for free (Store Link) – We know you’ll like them as much as we do!

best,

John D.

Photo By flickr user stu_spivack

Step away from the leftovers.  Black Friday is happening, and MakerBot is not going to be left behind…not this time.

Something big is going to drop on Friday, and there’s only one way to find out about it: by signing up for the MakerBot Industries newsletter. If you have already signed up for the newsletter, you will receive the notice…but if I were you I’d check to make sure your newsletter subscription is up to date by updating your details after following the link.

Not only is the MakerBot Newsletter one of the finest missives of its type, including clever jokes and brightly-colored photos of super-hip MakerBotsters, but it also often includes a special sale code.  And this Friday’s letter will be no exception…in fact, it will be one of the best deals we’ve ever offered.  Ever.

If you miss out on this limited time deal while trapped in a tryptophan-induced coma, you will regret it for the rest of your life.  Well, potentially.  Do you want to take that risk?

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Turkey Cookie Cutter by wstrinz

First off, I want to give a shout-out to pomalin for their Bucket Of OctopSTA and second entry in the “moregangsta” challenge.  As the first-challenge-uploader and first-to-upload two separate entries, Pomalin receives 27,000 internet points AND bragging rights^3!  ¹

Second, how about another lightning design challenge?!  Can you design and upload a turkey design² before midnight on November 24, 2011?  9000 internet points, bragging rights, and mad blog-nods to:

• First to upload
• Most realistic
• Most awesome

Please be sure and tag your entries with “turkeyday2011” so everyone can find your contribution.  Also, don’t forget to add other appropriate other tags to your designs.

Turkey Cookie Cutter by wstrinz

I made this for thanksgiving biscuits. It's not really in season now, but you could print one out for next year

This thing brought to you by

1. That’s just “bragging rights” to the power of three, not to the power of “3!” [↩]
2. With an open license please! [↩]

Photo credit

• projectshellter.com
• @ProjectShellter
• bit.ly/​ProjectShellter
• bit.ly/​ProjectShellterShells
• youtube.com/​ProjectShellterVideos

This guest post is part of Project Shellter.

Warhammer 40k Imperial Guard Leman Russ Tank by 3dYeti

Thingiverse citizen 3dYeti has clearly taken tabletop gaming and models to a new level with this incredibly detailed Warhammer 40k tank model.  Whether it is modular dungeon walls, small armies, custom dice, or game controller extension, there’s a fantastic way to use a MakerBot to up your game.

While this is just 3dYeti’s first contribution to Thingiverse, I have a feeling there are going to be many more incredible models coming our way! ¹

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1. Also…  Who’s going to be the first to post a TankSta? [↩]