MakerBot Industries

We’re furiously prepping for a legendary Maker Faire here in New York in less than a week. Once we get the Bot-farm up and running, we’ll have a small army of MakerBots printing things out all day long.

Submit your charm designs by Wednesday, September 22nd, and we will consider printing them at Maker Faire! We’re looking for things that are quick to print that we can awe visitors with.

At the BotCave MakerBots are already hard at work printing things like this butterfly ornament designed by bpijls to give away at Maker Faire this weekend.

So get to work on a cool design for Maker Faire, and your creation could be given away at our booth!

The Botcave is a flurry with activity in preparation for the upcoming New York City 2010 Maker Faire at the New York Hall of Sciences.

Clear your weekend September 25th and 26th to attend this event. The festival will last from 10 am to 7 pm on Saturday and from 10 am to 6 pm Sunday. MakerBot Industries will be right next to the 3D printing village. We will have a farm of MakerBots printing all day long.

A day pass is $25.00 for adults, $20.00 for seniors, $15.00 for students, and $10.00 for kids, and $50.00 for families. If you buy a subscription to Make Magazine for $35.00, a Maker Faire day pass is included.

Buy a ticket here and we’ll see you there!

Gian Pablo got a MakerBot and has been hotrodding it. It’s BEAUTIFUL! He’s also done an amazing job of documenting it.

If you’re into MakerBot at all you’ll want to check out the following posts he’s made to his blog:

Calibrating Skeinforge
Making a MakerBot Part 1
Making a MakerBot Part 2 Terminal Block
Making a MakerBot Part 3 Heated Build Platform
Making a MakerBot Part 4 – Paxstruder

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 .

Wow, just wow! Christian Arnø has made a MakerBot with a MakerBot and has achieved MakerBot self replication!!! SO MUCH WIN!

The reprap is not the only 3d printer that can replicate itself, now the Makerbot can too.

This Makerbot is made out of approximately 150 individual pieces that is printed on , (yes you guessed it) a Makerbot.

My Makerbot worked hard everyday for about a month straight to finish this project, and i am immensly happy about the end result

(The pictures doesn’t do it justice one bit, but it really is a thing of beauty)

Make sure to check out the MakerBot made by a MakerBot page on Thingiverse to look at all the pictures! WOW!

Brian Jepson got a chance to corner Will Langford at the Cambridge Mini Maker Faire in April. Check it out! Via Makezine

Daniel Grippi, Maxwell Salzberg, Raphael Sofaer, and Ilya Zhitomirskiy are four NYU computer science students who bonded over many late nights building a Makerbot at ACM meetings. After being inspired by a talk by Eben Moglen about freedom and ownership online, they started discussing what a distributed social network would look like and started building it.

These guys are building something the internet has needed for years. Check out their kickstarter page and consider supporting their project! These guys show you that when you get a MakerBot, you might just make some good friends and make wonderful things happen!

The folks in Washington state are rocking it these days. Kevin, who is in the Learn Make Cupcake group at the University of Washington has been printing Mendel parts like mad and added a nice hack to his extruder to stop busting out PTFE barriers.

via LearnMakeCupcake: Playing Ketchup.

One of the MakerBots over at the University of Washington is getting a workout!

This weekend our MakerBot got a big work out as we had the College of Engineering Open House (now called Discovery Days). Belinda — one of the team members designed a “give away part” which was a little W. Belinda started making hundreds of the little W’s. The MakerBot ran almost non-stop for three days. All-in-all, it was a great performance.

via Open3DP (Open 3D Printing).