Are you excited about the Replicator, but you already placed an order for a Thing-O-Matic? OK, don’t worry — it may still be possible to upgrade. There’s not much time, though, so email support@makerbot.com immediately if you want to change your Thing-O-Matic order into a pre-order for the Replicator™!
Some of you may have noticed that today’s announcement has taken a toll on our store page as well as the main website…thank you for your patience as we knock the bugs out of our data tubes.
January 10, 2012 (Brooklyn, NY) – MakerBot Industries is excited to announce the launch of its latest product, The MakerBot Replicator™, which will debut at CES in Las Vegas, NV on Tuesday, January 10th. Available in the MakerBot store for pre-order today!
The MakerBot Replicator™ is the ultimate personal 3D printer, with MakerBot Dualstrusion™ (2-color printing) and a bigger printing footprint, giving you the superpower to print things BIG! Assembled in Brooklyn by skilled technicians, the MakerBot Replicator™ is ready within minutes to start printing right out of the box. Starting at $1749, The MakerBot Replicator™ is an affordable, open source 3D printer that is compact enough to sit on your desktop. Want to print in two colors? Choose the Dualstrusion™ option!
With a build envelope that’s roughly the size of a loaf of bread, The MakerBot Replicator™ gives you the power to go big. Make an entire chess set with the press of a button. Friends, classmates, co-workers, and family will see the things you make and say “Wow!”
The MakerBot Replicator™ creates anything you can imagine with the new MakerBot Stepstruder™ MK8, the extruder is the part of the machine that turns raw feedstock, like ABS (what Lego® is made of) or PLA (a biodegradable material made from corn), into the objects you desire. You can order your MakerBot Replicator™ with single or dual MakerBot Stepstruders on it. By choosing the dual extrusion option, you’ll print with two different colors at the same time. MakerBot Dualstrusion™ unlocks the ability to make beautiful combinations of colors and opens the door to experimenting with with multi-material objects.
The MakerBot Replicator™ is ideal for personalized manufacturing, providing a new way to make the things you want and need. It is also an essential tool for children and students; parents and educators with a MakerBot Replicator™ offer the next generation an opportunity to learn the digital designing skills required to solve the problems of the future. Students with access to a MakerBot have an edge in the future job market. Just like the youth of the 1980’s, who had access to computers, children with access to a MakerBot Replicator™ will become the leaders who make a better tomorrow.
The MakerBot Replicator™ is the tool from tomorrow, today. In the two years since the company was founded, the capabilities of a MakerBot have grown from printing cupcake-sized objects in 2009 to printing things as large as an entire loaf of bread today on on the MakerBot Replicator™. MakerBot Industries continues to demonstrate its dedication to putting the tools of creativity into the hands of the those brilliant and bold enough to bring their imagination into the physical world.
Thingiverse has just been re-launched and is even more awesome! Thingiverse is a powerful sharing platform for digital designs where all the content is free and the future is bright.
Back before Thingiverse.com, people were able to download music, movies, and even books, but there was no place to share and download things. Then Thingiverse, a universe of things, was created in 2008 and digital design has never been the same.
Thingiverse users share their digital designs for real things and become superstars to the other users on Thingiverse. Every day, Thingiverse has new things community members have shared. It’s truly amazing. There are thousands of things on Thingiverse, and millions of people visit the site to be inspired by the creativity of Thingiverse users.
And today, there’s a new and improved Thingiverse!
It’s easier than ever to share your digital designs and be a superstar
A new front page giving top billing to the latest featured Thing
A new look and better organization for Thing pages and User profiles
Simplified Thing editing – it’s all in one place
Improved search and navigation make it easier to find what you’re looking for
On the backend, we’ve improved the architecture so everything works smoother.
Refined features for attribution and derivatives
A thing can now have multiple ancestors – bring on the mashups!
“I Made a Derivative” button makes it clearer what to do when you make a derivative of another Thing
Post those beautiful photos of your prints with the “I Made One!” button
The backend of the site has improved to make sharing easier.
Check out the new Thingiverse now! Don’t let your creativite work suffocate with loneliness on your hardrive. Get your designs off your computer and up on Thingiverse. Share your designs today!
Over the last few years there have been some awesome strides made to make it easy for you to make awesome models to create with a MakerBot. Here are 3 of my favorite!
Cookie Cutters! One of the easiest and most fun things to design and then make on a MakerBot is a cookie cutter. The cookie cutter software was designed in 2010 by Guru and since he published his work, a LOT of cookie cutters have been made. Go use the cookie cutter tool and make a cookie cutter and upload it to Thingiverse… then make some cookies!
Image to 3D! When MakerBot started the MakerBot Artist in Residency Program, Marius Watz was the first in January of 2011 and he rocked it! He launched an entire design tool library that let’s you use processing to create objects from data. My favorite is the photo to 3D model application. Download his code and install his libraries and run mb_04_gui_heightfield in processing and you’ll be able to turn pictures into 3D models!
Kinect to STL! Kyle McDonald followed Marius and did pioneering work with the Microsoft Kinect. Use his Kinect to STL program to scan yourself or your cat and print them out on your MakerBot.
What am I missing? What are the coolest ways that you make models to make on your MakerBot?
Fast Company.com just posted a nice feature on MakerBot Industries and our CEO & Co-Founder Bre Pettis, complete with some awesome photos! The article will hit stands in Fast Company’s next print issue in the next couple weeks, but until then you can read the piece online.
Are you excited about the Replicator, but you already placed an order for a Thing-O-Matic? OK, don’t worry — it may still be possible to upgrade. There’s not much time, though, so email support@makerbot.com immediately if you want to change your Thing-O-Matic order into a pre-order for the Replicator™!
