I made a playlist on YouTube so you can watch all of season one of MakerBot TV in one sitting!


Revisit your favorite episodes and make sure to leave comments so I know what you liked! And don’t forget to subscribe to MakerBot TV on YouTube or iTunes so that you don’t miss the launch of Season Two!

The November issue of the MakerBot Newsletter which we launched last Friday morning offered a very special set of coupon codes, valid for “Black Friday” until the end of “Cyber Monday” (Nov 28th). A coupon, in fact, that we’ve never been able to offer before:  tremendous discounts on our flagship MakerBot Thing-O-Matic fully-assembled and user-assembled kits. This discount was so popular over the weekend, that we have decided to extend it to all of our community, even those who have not yet signed up for our newsletter.¹

MakerBot Thing-O-Matic Newsletter Discount

For a $1999.00 fully-assembled kit: use coupon code TRYPTOPHAN.
For a $999.00 user-assembled kit: use coupon code TURKEYSTUFFER.

While the coupon codes were created solely for those who signed up for the newsletter, these codes will work for anyone who uses them in the coupon code part of checkout in our online shopping cart. This deal is only valid until midnight EST (“New York”) time, so those interested should jump on this now before these discounted kits sell out or the window on the coupon code closes. Feel free to share these coupon codes as widely while they still function! We want everyone possible to take advantage of this extremely unusual discount.

While you are at it, take a glance at our November newsletter!

1. We encourage you to sign up here so that you can be informed about our discounts and breaking news in the future. [↩]

As the dust settles from our epic Black Friday sale-tacular, we’ve been able to take stock of the situation and re-evaluate some estimates for ship dates.  And there’s some very good news: most previously-ordered bots have already shipped, and this weekend’s order should be out in time for holiday delivery!

Furthermore, we’re now estimating that the Thing-O-Matic will ship with a 1-2 week lead time – which means there’s still time to order for Christmas delivery.  Here are our best estimates for the order cut-off dates for each type of shipping:

Ground Shipping: order by December 12th

3-day service: order by December 16th

2-day service: order by December 19th

Next Day Air: order by December 20th

Note that these estimates are for domestic orders only — as customs times vary greatly for international shipments, we can’t offer estimates for foreign delivery.

Ye olde workhorse of 3D printing, ReplicatorG,  just got a new release!   Along with the shiny shiny new revision number (which is a perfect number!). it has some great added features.

• Pre-heat for build? Check.
• Build right from the STL View window? Check.
• Better support for international number formats? Check.
• Temperature info right in the Machine Status Bar? Check.
• Squashed some small user reported annoyances? Check.

If you do a lot of 3d printing you’ll love the new updates in ReplicatorG.   The Pre-Heat system will speed up printing on older bots. The ‘Print from STL View’ will make it easier to just click ‘print’ and go.  Plus with temperature info in the Bot Status Bar at the top of ReplicatorG, gone are the days of wondering ‘Is that Bot at temperature yet?’

Overall this update doesn’t add any crazy new features. It just makes printing a little faster, a little easier, and a little more fun.  But why take my word for it?  Why not go download it for yourself.