MakerBot Industries

Come visit MakerBot in South Hall 4, in Booth #36839

Update! Date moved to 1/22. It is now going to happen on Sunday not Saturday!

Last year, Thingiverse user Syvwlch started working on a clock mechanism that you can print out on your MakerBot. Check out the thing on Thingiverse to see how far the project has gone. Lots of work from the community has gotten this project really far. Let’s see if we can push it over the edge!

You’re invited to join us at the MakerBot Workshop for a Hackathon to work on the MakerBot Clock project. It’s going to be an adventure in clockmaking and we’re going to see what we can get done in one day of hacking on the problem. We’ll also eat pizza! Bring a laptop and if you’ve got a MakerBot, you’re invited to bring that too. My hope is that we can have a few informal workshops through the day so that folks can learn how to make gears in OpenSCAD and we can all help each other learn how to build 16-18th century inventions with 21st century technology.

If you’re going to come, please RSVP on Eventbrite so I can figure out how much pizza to order. It wouldn’t hurt to join the MakerBot Clock Maker Group as well.

MakerBot Clock Hackathon!
Date: January 22, 2012
When: Noon till we’re done.
Where: MakerBot Workshop – 314 Dean St. Brooklyn NY 11217

Here are the gears spinning with the help of a drill by Rustedrobot and another video to click through to see the escapement in action.
If you’re too far away to make it to the event, drop a note in the comments and we’ll turn on the dropcam and you can join in remotely.

New Yorkers can stop by the Wired Store in Times Square tomorrow, Saturday, December 17th, for the chance to see MakerBot demos and witness the Botmobiles in action. Demos will be held from 12pm-2pm with a talk at 1pm from Michael Curry (a.k.a. Skimbal) and John Dimatos, the team behind MakerBot Projects, who will be speaking about the creation of the Botmobile, with a Q&A to follow.

Wired Store

1472 Broadway (corner of 42nd Street)

New York, NY 10036

Stop by the Gizmodo Gallery tomorrow, December 9th at 6pm to catch a talk from MakerBot collaborator and former Artist in Residence, Micah Ganske. An acclaimed painter who has always used tech elements in his work Ganske was excited to create sculptures (like the ones above) on a Thing-O-Matic. Ganske will be speaking about his experience merging art and technology on a MakerBot, with a short Q&A to follow. These awesome sculptures are available for viewing and purchase at both RH Gallery and ArtStar.com.

Turkey Cookie Cutter by wstrinz

First off, I want to give a shout-out to pomalin for their Bucket Of OctopSTA and second entry in the “moregangsta” challenge.  As the first-challenge-uploader and first-to-upload two separate entries, Pomalin receives 27,000 internet points AND bragging rights^3!  ¹

Second, how about another lightning design challenge?!  Can you design and upload a turkey design² before midnight on November 24, 2011?  9000 internet points, bragging rights, and mad blog-nods to:

• First to upload
• Most realistic
• Most awesome

Please be sure and tag your entries with “turkeyday2011” so everyone can find your contribution.  Also, don’t forget to add other appropriate other tags to your designs.

Turkey Cookie Cutter by wstrinz

I made this for thanksgiving biscuits. It's not really in season now, but you could print one out for next year

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1. That’s just “bragging rights” to the power of three, not to the power of “3!” [↩]
2. With an open license please! [↩]

Joshua Pierce sent us email about his contest.

You are invited to participate in a design competition for development of sustainable technologies and their components for printing on open source 3-D printers.

The goal of the contest is to facilitate an open exchange of 3-D sustainable technology designs that can be printed to meet various
needs in the context of sustainable and self directed development. 3-D printers such as RepRap and open sourced innovation hold great promise for development of appropriate technologies to help millions of world’s poorest communities reach a better standard of living. Designs will be judged on the technical printing viability, feasibility and functionality of the innovation, as well as sustainability from ecological, economic and social perspectives.

Anyone can enter the competition but the contestants must post their digital designs on Thingiverse under an open license (e.g. CC-BY-SA). The contest is funded by the Queen’s Applied Sustainability Group and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).

There’s no website for the contest that we can find, but there is a pdf!

hipsta by pomalin

Thingiverse citizen pomalin is the winner of 9000 internet points and bragging rights for being the first to upload a “moregangsta” challenge mashup! ¹ The one I was really hoping someone would upload first was a HipSTA – and thanks to pomalin  now there is one!

There are still more points and bragging rights to be had!

hipsta by pomalin

First try for an hipsta, don't know yet if it's printable without raft, because I run out of filament, but will try as soon as I have some. Hipsta-third uploaded, it's a three parts print, should print better, and be taller. edit : Bobble head hipsta uploaded edit 2 : add each three parts to fit a thing-o-matic

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1. Pomalin also gets another 9000 points for being the first to upload one of the specific models for the challenge. [↩]

snakesta by cibomahto

Thingiverse’s all time most-mashed up model on Thingiverse has got to be the “gangsta” by Yzorg.  However, there are a number of things on Thingiverse that really should be mashed up with a gangsta.

1. STAtue of Liberty – She stands for liberty and freedom…  and slouching.
2. The ThinkSTA – He’s thinking… about his life as a gangsta.
3. DeathSTAr – The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the potential of the gangsta.
4. NatashSTA the pen holder -  Don’t mess with her.  She’s carrying… a pen.
5. GnomeSTA – Because it would be so cool to have a bunch of GnomeSTAs lounging around a garden.
6. Project ShellSTA – Because even hermit crabs need a gangsta hideout.
7. Bucket of OctopSTA – What has eight arms and is more gangsta than you?
8. SkullSTA – Nothing has more gangsta street cred than an actual skull.
9. STArfish – Sure, there’s already a *sta, but don’t you want a gangsta that’s a little more… fishy?
10. HipSTA – Because I really really really want a HipSTA.  I want to put it on the edge of my desk and wait for someone to ask what it is.  “Oh, it’s this mashup-meme.  You’ve probably never heard of it.”

This challenge is pretty easy with 10 possible winners.  All you have to do is mashup the gangsta with one of the models above.  Tag your entries with “moregangsta.”  Please also be sure to add appropriate other tags to your designs.  It’s also good form to add derivative links to the designs of others’ you use.  9000 internet points, bragging rights, and a blog-nod to the first-to-upload-a-challenge-entry and to each first entry in one of the 10 categories above.

Good luck!

Hey MakerPeople! This friday, we are going to have a hyper-fun mega-event at Manhattan’s über-hip AC Gears store!  There will be refreshments as well as a DJ — that’s right, a professional Disc Jockey, who will be playing all the latest dance hits on an up-to-the-minute solid-state Hi-Fi!

AC Gears is on E. 8th St in Manhattan, and it’s a small place, so an RSVP is required on the official Facebook invite page.  See you there!

Are you a teacher or educator interested in bringing a MakerBot into the classroom? During this 4 hour session you will be introduced to 3-D printing with the MakerBot Thing-o-Matic. We’ll walk you step-by-step through the process of creating a 3-D computer model and preparing it for printing with the MakerBot. You will be given an overview of various 3-D modeling software tools that are available for free online. In addition, you will be shown a set of lesson plans that you can use with your students over the course of a semester. No prior knowledge of 3-D modeling or 3-D printing is required. Please bring a laptop computer to the workshop.

When: Saturday, October 29th, 2011, 10AM – 2PM
Where: Bot Farm, 314 Dean Street, Brooklyn
Cost: Free! (You must also email a brief statement describing your work with young people).

You can register via Eventbrite.