MakerBot Industries

***IN BOTCAVE POP-UP SHOP ONLY***


Andy Doro and I (Mike Kelberman) put together a Jimmie Rodgers’ LOLshield to use for signage in the Botcave (MakerBot’s popup shop).  We had to use diffusion (piece of paper) since the LEDs are so bright, they would overexpose the video footage.  The LOLshield is connected to an Arduino clone The Diavolino by Evil Mad Scientist, both available here in the store.

LOL Shield

Diavolino

We are happy to announce that our Unos finally came in Monday!

http://store.makerbot.com/arduino-uno.html

Photo courtesy of Arduino.cc

Fellow tinkerer Phil came in to the Botcave on his way out of NYC Resistor.

He was curious about our Stereo Amp Kit for his current project – a gourd stereo!

He even demoed one for us in the shop!

Brandon brought his son, Ryan, to the Botcave today to pick out some fun kits to build.
Ryan dug both the Drawdio and LOL shield. They didn’t know how to solder, so we sat them down at our solder station and gave ‘em a few pointers.
And they’re off to a great start!

Here’s a photo of Ryan’s soldering his first capacitor. No cold solders in this family!

Kyle and Adrian are two architecture graduate students at Pratt who dropped by the store yesterday to get some help on their CupCake CNC as well as some help soldering their relay board at our soldering station.

They also bought five pounds of natural ABS for printing building models to show their clients.

MakerBot has opened a small popup retail space at our headquarters in Brooklyn.

87 3rd Ave, Brooklyn between Dean & Bergen (Closest Subway: Atlantic Pacific 2/3/4/5/D/N/R/Q)

We’re open Tuesday-Saturday 12-8pm now until December 24th.

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For sale:

MakerBot Kits: MakerBot Cupcake CNC Kits, Sanguinos, TTL Cables, LED strips, pen plotters, extruders, filament spindle boxes, scanner kits, and ABS plastic in all colors.

Adafruit Kits: USBtiny, Minty Boosts, Motor Shields, Drawdios, TV-B-Gones, Wave Shields and Brain Machine kits!

Evil Mad Science: LED Menoras, Diavolinos, Larson Scanners, Meggy Jr. RGB Game kits, and Bulbdial clock kits.

Arduino: Besides the Sanguino and Diavolino, which are both Arduino variants, we’ve got Arduinos Megas in stock!

Jimmy Rodgers: LOL Shields and Open Heart kits.

W&L: Video Game Shield

Sparkfun: ClockIt, Metro-Gnome, Multimeter Kit, Simon, Through-Hole Christmas Tree and Audio Amplifier kits.

Hanukkah is rapidly approaching. It starts this Wednesday, December 1st at sundown. Need a menorah? Want to do a little soldering? Want to save wax?

Come visit the MakerBot Store. We have the Deluxe LED Menorah kit from Evil Mad Science Laboratories in stock for $14:

Our Deluxe LED Menorah kit is an updated take on the traditional hanukkiyah, the nine-armed Hanukkah candelabrum. Two candles are lit on the first night of Hanukkah (one “real” candle plus the lighter candle, or shamash), three on the second night, right up to nine on the eighth night. (That’s (2+9)*(8/2)=44 candles all together, for those of you keeping score.)

Ours works pretty much the same way, but uses less wax. When you turn it on, it displays the correct configuration of LED “candles” for a given night of Hanukkah. Each time that you press the button (or switch it off and back on), it displays one more light than it did the previous time that you turned it on (unless it showed all nine last time, in which case it goes back to two). The LEDs are lit up in the traditional sequence, with a gentle fade.”

There is plenty more to shop for at the MakerBot Botcave. We have all the traditional MakerBot faire like MakerBot Cupcake CNC Kits, TTL Cables, LED strips, pen plotters, extruders, and ABS plastic. We also sell Adafruit Kits like the Brain Machine, stuff from Evil Mad Science Laboratories, Arduino products, Jimmy Rodgers and much more.

Also, every visitor gets an object printed by one of our very own MakerBots!

So come and say hello. We’re located at 87 3rd Avenue. Hours are Noon-8 p.m., Tuesday thru Saturday, now until December 24th. See you at the MakerBot Botcave!

Ethan (13 years old) came in to the Botcave today and bought a MakerBot Cupcake CNC Ultimate Kit. We’ve sold a few MakerBot Cupcake Ultimate kits today and been able to hand them over to real people. It’s been great being able to meet customers in real life!

If you’re in NYC, you’re invited to stop into the MakerBot Botcave retail store and say hi and purchase a MakerBot kit too! We’re open Noon to 8pm from Tuesday to Saturday.

@gmchar was the first customer today. Visiting from the Netherlands on a tour of hackerspaces, he stocked up on MakerBot and Arduino supplies.

We also had visitors from the West coast come by and get a MakerBot Cupcake Ultimate for a young inventor in the family named Caleb. Congrats!