MakerBot Industries

MakerBot is excited to be part of this weekend’s Art Hack Day in Brooklyn at the 319 Scholes gallery! Participants will be using the Thing-O-Matic throughout the week, from Thursday, January 26th through Saturday, January 28th, to work on their projects. We’ll also be bringing The Replicator by for a few key appearances!

Art Hack Day is an event dedicated to cracking open the process of art-making, with special reverence toward open-source technologies. Artists and collaborators will inhabit 319 Scholes to create and explore the participatory nature of technology, bringing together hackers whose medium is art and artists whose medium is technology.

At the close of the hackathon, a giant party will be held at 319 Scholes to show off participant’s creations! The party will be open to the public, starting at 7 p.m. If you’d like to attend, please RSVP here.

The party will be one of the first opportunities for New Yorkers to be able to see the new MakerBot Replicator live and in the flesh! Stop by and say hi!

Deck Box for a collectible card game by SirGronk

This card game deck box by SirGronk is such a perfect example of what it can mean to have your own 3D printer.  Since no one mass produces and sells deck boxes for his particular card game, he just designed and printed his very own!  This might even prove to be an interesting and viral little business.  Since you would need an opponent to play against, there’s going to be at least one other person who could potentially be interested in such a deck box.  And, perhaps the people they play with as well.

Don’t forget there are other examples of MakerBotted deck boxes for other games too!

Deck Box for a collectible card game by SirGronk

I play a collectible card game (CCG) called "Vampire: the Eternal Struggle". The V:tES decks have more cards in them than the standard Magic decks. 102 cards in sleeves don't fit in most available deck boxes. So I learned Google Sketchup and made my own. It's not fancy, but it's solid and fits really well. I also put the V:tES logo on the front of the box for added customization and opponent jealousy. Hooray for my first uploaded design!

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Poke Ball Deck Box by 67restomodder

I created a parametric box script in OpenSCAD to make some custom storage boxes. My 11 year-old son asked if I could make him a box to hold a deck of Pokemon cards. He requested it have a Poke Ball on the front of the box and on the lid. I am anticipating he will be asking for more of these. I included the OpenSCAD script. It is parametric and has the ability to create a box and lid in any size with dividers (in both X and Y). It can also round the corners as desired. The Poke Ball decorations can be easily removed and/or replaced with anything you desire. Enjoy!

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Game Card Holder (configurable/SCAD) by Zarquon

I just drew these in my office at lunch. I'm new to scad so I'm sure there is a healthy number of bugs. Seems to work out well during my test print though. This is a redraw of the Game Card Holder thing by condac. I've migrated them to open scad so they have some configuration options. These include: 1. resizable for different cards 2. choose which tabs/slots to add (make a 2x2 block, avoid dangling tab on end or whatnot) 3. [simple] lid and adjustable walls to make deck box The lid barely fits in (default is no clearance). The bottom can warp enough to make it really snug. When the box gets larger you may consider reducing the clearance ratio for the lid (to less then 1.0) to make it snugger and making the walls larger. The larger deck box (the catan one works like a charm) in the picture needs a rubber band on it to stay closed when full. Note: The tabs on this adjust in size with the card size. This means they are not compatible with cornac's tabs or different size cards tabs.

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Paper Folding Models by aubenc

Thingiverse aubenc has shared his amazing origami-inspired OpenSCAD designs.

Few ages ago I was using a piece of paper “quite a 2D thing” to get 3 dimensional models, so this is a tribute to a couple of my first ever “made things”.

Aubenc’s analogy of likening origami to designing 3D printable models is an excellent one.  I also find it especially interesting that there are so many people interested in origami who are also MakerBotters – George Hart, Chris Palmer, and Chris Connors to name a few.

Paper Folding Models by aubenc

Few ages ago I was using a piece of paper "quite a 2D thing" to get 3 dimensional models, so this is a tribute to a couple of my first ever "made things". It's a quick OpenSCAD that don't take in account some important aspects to make the models easyly printable. Take a look to the instructions and the scad script itself for more info. Some more pictures: flickr.com/photos/aubenc/sets/72157628926382411/

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Thingiverse use RyGuy gets a special shoutout for presentation on this design: an 8-bit version of the indispensable piggy bank.

While we of course love saving our pennies for a rainy day, we may have selected a different design if it weren’t for the excellent photographic documentation, showing off our super-bright fluorescent plastic.  Also, check out the staging: it uses actual money!  Very appealing.

Cheers to RyGuy for making Thingiverse look very pro!

8-bit Piggy Bank by RyGuy

Yes, this is a fully functional 8-bit big money piggy bank! My 3yr old daughter need a safe place to keep all her high-stakes rock/paper/scissors winnings. She sat down with me in-front of a clean Sketchup session and we began to construct a piggy bank that Mario would approve of. Check my screen shots, I uploaded a plethora of images including object dimensions. I printed this in ~6hrs using no support on my Thing-O-Matic's ABP. My RIG: TOM # 4890 MK6+ 1.75mm .4 nozzle ABP with aluminum plate topper and titanium belt covered in kapton

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