MakerBot Industries

No need to win it all to know how it feels to hold the World Cup trophy. drayde from Germany has made it easy for all football (soccer) fans by uploading designs for the World Cup trophy on Thingiverse.

Check out techknight ‘s MakerBot is printing the Octahedron as uploaded in YouTube. Also take a look at the whistle made by this bot!

Designer Grill’s Karl had a chance to watch the Cupcake buzzing and creating objects at Internet Week and he got one!

Read more about Karl’s thoughts on the MakerBot at MakerBot CNC | One Sweet Cupcake .

MakerBot’s versatile skills on display. It can double as away to move a microscope around! This is a major problem when looking at things with a microscope and I love that someone thought of using a MakerBot to make it happen! Uploaded to flickr by CatarinaMota.

At MakerBot we’re focused on putting the tools of creativity in everyone’s hands. We don’t want to creep people out with terminator style robots.

Honda made this video about their robot Asimo, which is a humanoid robot. The conversation about the uncanny valley and what creeps people out about robots is what makes it worth watching.

MAKE’s Gadget Freak Design Contest started on April 21 and runs till July 13. So go ahead and get your entries in. Create a gadget and document your build. The Contest winner gets $1000 and a chance to sell their gadget in kit form in the Makers Market (plus setup and monthly fees waived for 6 months). Good Luck!

Zornik has created the Reddit Alien and uploaded it on Thingiverse. Isn’t it adorable? Now create you own little mascot of the Reddit community!

Only a week left until the World Cup. Another grand stage was at RoboCup 2009 in Graz, Austria. Check out what happened there below.

Looking forward to see soccer balls on Thingiverse. In the meantime get ready for the World Cup by printing the referee whistle by Zaggo.

We don’t see a lot of animal designs on Thingiverse but now we have some cool frog designs by owenscenic. He made the frog for his daughter and now we can all have our own sets of little frogs.

If you have a 3D model for an animal, upload it to Thingiverse so everyone can make it!

At MakerBot Industries, we want to get the MakerBot into the hands of young people in schools, colleges, and universities. We’re starting by creating the MakerBot Educators Group for folks who are students, teachers, professors, and folks who just think that actually doing things and making things should be an integral part education.

We figure that students can put theory into practice and get practical manufacturing experience with a MakerBot. We want students to be able to make their imagination real by exploring the world of 3D design and fabrication while exploring manufacturing in a tangible, personal way.

We imagine a utopia where students get hands on access to 3D printing in a room full of happily buzzing MakerBots and share their designs on Thingiverse where there are already 1000′s of models that are ready to download and print!

A lot of you are already either teachers, professors, students or are involved in education in some way. So this group is for you all to share your ideas and resources! Join in the conversation!