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Brooklyn Borough President, Marty Markowitz, stopped by MakerBot HQ this afternoon to chat with MakerBot CEO and co-founder, Bre Pettis.

Markowitz admires a giant 3D-printed chess piece

Bre explains how The Replicator works

Roger Yu explains the explosive growth of 3D printing among entrepreneurs and hobbyists in USA TODAY Tech.

Bonus: This awesome video interview with Bre Pettis from inside the Botcave!

Here’s another awesome Thingiverse camera item: this time, it’s an adapter to use the iPhone camera to take photos from your microscope.  This looks like an excellent way to get those images of plates into your lab reports.  This should be handy whether you’re checking your wine barrels for a brettanomyces outbreak or figuring out how to fight vicious, rapidly mutating bacteria!  Or just doing nice, safe science projects.  It’s up to you.

Good work Boogie!  Keep the awesome sciencey designs coming!

iPhone to Microscope mount by Boogie

This thing basically holds your iphone in position with the microscope eyepiece. It allows you to turn your iphone into a digital camera/view screen for a binocular type microscope. Great for group viewings or capturing microscopic images with your iphone and microscope. Great tool for classrooms. The mount was designed specifically for the Edmund Scientific binocular type microscope. It slips right over the eye pieces. If you don't have an iPhone, you can print just the base mount and use rubber bands to hold your phone/camera on.

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