The live stream for our April MakerBot User Group New York meeting is below (6-8 p.m EDT). The theme is MakerBot vs. Easter Bunny and we’ll be hearing brief talks from some of our staff. Watch and listen live, but also feel free to join us in a live chat over at USTREAM.

We’ve all got eggs on the brain this week. Dyeing eggs is a great activity to do with your kids, and making the dye yourself is an extra dimension of fun. If you’re looking for some easy, natural dye options, check this post at care2.com. The ingredients they list for pink, yellow, green, blue, purple and brown are all easily within reach at the grocery store. Now if someone could just figure out how to get these dyes into an Egg-Bot…

The MakerBot User Group New York April meeting is sold out! But never fear, USTREAM is here!

We will be live-streaming the meeting tonight for all to enjoy, East and Left coasts, and far flung coasts, too!

At 6 p.m. EDT, you can tune in at this link, or come back to this blog to watch the stream. MakerBot staff will also be live chatting the event, so come share your thoughts with us.

Come be a part of this!

Anyone in the Northside Chicago area may be interested to hear there is a Mini Maker Faire coming up at the absolutely incredible looking Carl Schurz High School.

Carl Schurz High School, aka Holy Cow That's A High School?

The event will be held Saturday, April 21, 2012 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and the poster says attendance is free for all Chicago Public School students!

If you are not in the Chicago area, but still want to find a Maker Faire near you, from Ahmedabad to Dublin to Albuquerque, check out this map on MakerFaire.com. There’s a whole lot of making going on!

Posting about the Light It Up Blue logo design yesterday got me thinking: what if I did want to print out four or five of these at a time? What if I were a teacher and wanted to modify and multiply this awesome badge for a Wild West unit with my students?

As it happens, my colleagues in Support have just today published a new tutorial addressing this exact question. It’s a quick read, and you can find out how to divide your build platform for a designated number of copies of your object. So you can have two three headed tigers, or three four leaf clovers, or four five fingered salutes.

Speaking of tutorials, the Support team wants to hear from you. What tutorial would you really like to see? Is there something you’ve had to teach yourself that you think we could cover with a good how-to? Let us know! Comment below, or submit your ideas to [email protected] at any time.

Now, go forth and multiply!

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