We are working on getting you tons of information about replicating our experiment at the Met. But in the meantime, we’ve been getting everything organized on Pinterest for you to follow and get excited about.

To make everything clear, there are two boards:

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Digitized in 3D

Remember, we have been digitizing the works of art at the Met. This Pinboard has all the things that have been turned into 3D models that are just like the original art. We — that’s us and you – are building a #futuremuseum, where real things from the physical world are turned into physical models.

Burgonet all'Antica - Date: 1540 - Digitized 2012

Luisa Deti by Ippolito Buzio – Date: 1604 – Digitized: 2012 

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, #Made

This is the board where you can find all the various derivative art. These are replicas of the original pieces that people have made on a MakerBot, or versions of completely new art based on the original art from the Met. These things are just waiting to be changed into new art, and you’re just the person to do it! Look at these fine examples.

Leda and the Marsyas by JonMonaghan

Naiad Decimated to 2736 Polygons by bre

MakerBot wants to congratulate the NYU Poly Team Atlas 2012 on their success at NASA’s Third Annual Lunabotics Mining Competition!

These MakerBotters are an awesome group of students using their Thing-O-Matic to make all kinds of things, related and unrelated to the goal of building a lunar mining robot. Here’s the exact language from the competition page:

The challenge is for students to design and build an excavator, called a Lunabot, that can mine and deposit a minimum of 10 kilograms of lunar simulant within 10 minutes.

Team Atlas took home the Judges Innovation Award and Third Place in the Team Spirit Award category. Throughout the competition, they were making things for other teams, like actual robot parts, but also souvenirs like Dr. Who Tardises¹ and Space Shuttle models. How generous!

Here’s the team’s Lunabot, “Atlas02″ in action.

Congratulations Jack Poon, Stanislav Rosylakov, Yusif Nurizade, Jessica Aleksandrowicz, Nick Cavaliere, Salvatore DiAngelus, Matthew Izberskiy, Ryan Caeti, and advisors!

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