If you will be volunteering for MakerBot as a booth volunteer this weekend, or if you are a MakerBot Operator or Thingiverse Maker, we invite you to join us Friday evening, after setup is done and before the festivities begin on Saturday, for a get together at our booth. Come and enjoy! Please be sure to let us know you’re joining us by registering here.

Turning kids’ silly drawings into physical toys. What a beautiful idea!

Child's Own Studios turns children's drawings into toys

via i09

If you are a mover, a shaker, and a Maker, let us stamp your passport! We’ll have our passport stamps at Maker Faire this weekend, including a special edition Robot Petting Zoo stamp. If you don’t have your passport yet, you can grab one from Adafruit. Collect stamps, prove your cred.

It’s about to get really Maker Faire-ish on this blog! The MakerBot team is gearing up for our trip to San Mateo this week, where we will be throwing down some awesome with Makers from around the globe. Whoa-I-can’t-wait-why-isn’t-it-Saturday-yet?

If you’re going to be a part of Maker Faire this weekend, please stop by and say hello to us. But be prepared for MakerBot staff to be super interested in you and what you like to make.

Lots more info to come, but here are our Top Five Makers this year that we can’t wait to visit. Notice: this list is subject to change before the day’s out.

Cory Soto’s Dalek — building a “Dalek Mutant Vehicle…on a Yamaha G9 gas engine”. He’s been documenting his progress here.

Christian Ristow’s Face Forward — oh come on you have to be kidding me! A 12-foot tall robotic human face controlled by a bunch of joysticks. “Members of the public may operate the levers and play their part in the orchestration of an ongoing “river” of facial expressions.”

Wearable Computing Fashion Show by Lynne Bruning – “A fashion show that features wearable computing, soft-circuits and eTextiles from multiple designers, innovators and makers.” What more can I say?

Andrew Kaye’s 8x8x8 LED Cube — MORE LEDs!!!!! Filling a giant box with 512 LEDs is one of the best things one person can do for another person. Awesome.

Evil Mad Scientist’s High Tech Pumpkins – electronic, robotic pumpkins this Halloween. This is the world we want to live in. Evil Mad Scientist is going to show us how.

From John:

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Check out this nice array of machines. On his blog, John writes that the Prusa Mendel (left) and the Tantillus (right) are both using parts made with his Thing-O-Matic. That’s a family photo if I’ve ever seen one! Thanks for sharing, John.

Minifig Mechs by wgss

Thingiverse citizen wgss has been absolutely rocking a series of mini Mechs.  There’s so much to appreciate about these designs.  Not only are these scaled just right for legos, but each one of wgss’s four mechs is comprised of more than a dozen individual parts.  For Pete’s sake, he’s even modeled bullets separately.  While this means more gluing and assembly, having the parts separated out means everything can be printed without needing to use support structures and each piece could be printed with a different color plastic.

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