MakerBot Industries

MakerBot owner, John Biehler, explains the wonders of the  Thing-O-Matic on Get Connected, our new fave Canadian tech site! Check out the video to see John show off some cool things he’s printed including a money clip, Stephen Colbert’s head and even the Get Connected logo.

Here’s another awesome video for you to watch! BBC News has just featured Bre and Thingiverse in the latest edition of their Living Online series. The piece focuses on companies taking to the Internet to push innovation and Thingiverse is name checked as a prime outlet for creative collaboration. Consider this video a friendly reminder to design something new and share it on Thingiverse today!

MakerBot’s own Bre Pettis is the latest profile for Time.com’s Game Changer series. The crew from Time visited the MakerBot Workshop and the BotCave for a behind-the-scenes look at what we do here every day. The video also shows off some awesome objects we’ve printed recently including pliers, zaggo’s whistle, sconine’s  starfish, and the just-finished zoetrope project that artist Takeshi Murata is showing at London’s Frieze Art Fair.

Check out some of the other Game Changer profiles – Bre is in good company!

Laurie Anderson joins the growing roster of artists creating original work on a MakerBot, with her latest exhibit, “Forty-Nine Days in the Bardo.” The multimedia exhibition is running now through November 19^th at the Fabric Workshop & Museum in Philadelphia.

The team at MakerBot performed a 3D scan on a clay model of Laurie Anderson’s dog Lola, creating a virtual 3D object.  From this object, we printed out over 20 plastic models of the scan. The pack of plastic dogs is currently on display in the museum’s lobby, alongside a Thing-O-Matic.

Check out this book trailer for bestselling author and Internet pioneer Steven Johnson‘s The Innovator’s Cookbook (on sale October 4, 2011).  Helen Yentus, the designer of the book cover (featured in the video), worked with our team to 3D print the letters on a MakerBot Thing-O-Matic. This video documents her process from first sketch — to MakerBotting the letters — to photo shoot — to printed book. Cover photo and video are by YDESIGN.

Here are some details about the book from the video description.

The Innovator’s Cookbook is an essential book for anyone interested in innovation: the key texts on the topic from a wide range of fields as well as interviews with successful, real-world innovators, prefaced with a new essay by Johnson that draws upon his own experiences as an entrepreneur and author.

Tonight at 9pm EST sharp (6pm PST) on Make: Live, hosts Becky Stern and Matt Richardson will direct their attention to the world of DIY 3D printing.

This short 30-40min episode will feature lots for the MakerBot world to love! Catch segments with MakerBot staff such as an interview with CEO Bre Pettis, a Tinkercad demo by hacker/educator Liz Arum, and a teardown of the Turtle Shell Racers from the MakerBot Raceway at World Maker Faire 2011 with modeler/maker Michael Curry !

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sternlab.org/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Becky_Stern - Part of a ongoing project scanning the heads of bloggers, artists, DIYers, makers, musicians, hackers and anybody else we think is notable. Made with a Polhemus 3d scanner at MakerBot.

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Polhemus Scan of Bre Pettis by bre

We'll be scanning a tv personality next week and so we are renting a Polhemus high end laser scanner. We needed to test it out. Bre Pettis: Scanner Guinea Pig.

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These awesome  sculptures were created by artist Micah Ganske as part of collaboration with MakerBot for Art Star gallery.  The Wall Street Journal wrote about this fantastic union of art and technology on their Metropolis culture blog, calling MakerBot the “latest hit on the art fair circuit.” Check out the entire post here.

Micah’s limited-edition designs were sold at last week’s Affordable Art Fair. Visit Thingiverse if you want to print one of your own!

MakerBot was featured on the latest episode of PBS’s NYC 2.0 that aired last Sunday, September 18th. Check it out for yourself on the video link above!

NYC 2.0 is an awesome show covering the New York City tech world. Host, Rick Karr visited the Bot Cave to see where all the action happens (and of course, gets scanned in the process)! The topic of the episode was Hackers so of course, he also visited at our neighbors, NYC Resistor.

Check out this video of the folks at Engadget racing a duo of turtle shell racers around their offices!

The lil’ guys weren’t too tired to pay a visit to the live taping of the Engadget Show yesterday, where they were a big hit with the audience! Hosts Brian Heater and Tim Stevens drove them around the studio as an intro to a segment on Maker Faire NYC, which featured the turtle shell race track and designer Michael Curry (Skimbal).

The Engadget team also devoted a blog post to the turtle shell racers.  Here’s just a little of what they had to say:

“MakerBot’s Turtle Shell Racers may well be just the ambassador that the world of 3D printing needs. The toy football-sized RC cars are proof positive that the devices can turn just about anything you can imagine into reality.”

The New York times is running an amazing infographic today by Frank O’Connell about the Thing-O-Matic.  We’re extremely excited about how well it explains our pride and joy to a wider audience.

As you can see, it also mentions the Stepstruder Mk7 in a dual configuration.  That’s right folks — the compact size of the Mk7 is going to make experimental dual extrusion possible for the first time.  Stay tuned for details, or come to World Maker Faire NYC this weekend to see a them in action!