The first season of MakerBot TV is now available on DVD! Re-visit your favorite episodes and share them with your friends in the comfort of your own living room. As a token of thanks to our community we are sending complimentary copies of the DVDs to the first 100 people who purchase MakerBot Replicators™. Get yours today and keep it awesome!

Tune in for live CES coverage on Spike!

Tune in to see Bre Pettis and the new Replicator!

Coverage starts at 1:45 PM PT; 4:45 PM ET.

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Are you coming across the MakerBot Replicator for the first time? Are you still trying to wrap your head around how a MakerBot works? Are you trying to explain to a friend what a MakerBot is, but frustrated because they still don’t get it? Well stop being frustrated and confused and WATCH THIS VIDEO! This is where MakerBot CEO and Co-founder Bre Pettis explains it all! See the MakerBot Replicator in action for the first time ever! And be amazed!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

January 10, 2012 (Brooklyn, NY) – MakerBot Industries is excited to announce the launch of its latest product, The MakerBot Replicator™, which will debut at CES in Las Vegas, NV on Tuesday, January 10th. Available in the MakerBot store for pre-order today!

The MakerBot Replicator™ is the ultimate personal 3D printer, with MakerBot Dualstrusion™ (2-color printing) and a bigger printing footprint, giving you the superpower to print things BIG! Assembled in Brooklyn by skilled technicians, the MakerBot Replicator™ is ready within minutes to start printing right out of the box. Starting at $1749, The MakerBot Replicator™ is an affordable, open source 3D printer that is compact enough to sit on your desktop. Want to print in two colors? Choose the Dualstrusion™ option!

With a build envelope that’s roughly the size of a loaf of bread, The MakerBot Replicator™ gives you the power to go big. Make an entire chess set with the press of a button. Friends, classmates, co-workers, and family will see the things you make and say “Wow!”

The MakerBot Replicator™ creates anything you can imagine with the new MakerBot Stepstruder™ MK8, the extruder is the part of the machine that turns raw feedstock, like ABS (what Lego® is made of) or PLA (a biodegradable material made from corn), into the objects you desire. You can order your MakerBot Replicator™ with single or dual MakerBot Stepstruders on it. By choosing the dual extrusion option, you’ll print with two different colors at the same time. MakerBot Dualstrusion™ unlocks the ability to make beautiful combinations of colors and opens the door to experimenting with with multi-material objects.

The MakerBot Replicator™ is ideal for personalized manufacturing, providing a new way to make the things you want and need. It is also an essential tool for children and students; parents and educators with a MakerBot Replicator™ offer the next generation an opportunity to learn the digital designing skills required to solve the problems of the future. Students with access to a MakerBot have an edge in the future job market. Just like the youth of the 1980’s, who had access to computers, children with access to a MakerBot Replicator™ will become the leaders who make a better tomorrow.

The MakerBot Replicator™ is the tool from tomorrow, today. In the two years since the company was founded, the capabilities of a MakerBot have grown from printing cupcake-sized objects in 2009 to printing things as large as an entire loaf of bread today on on the MakerBot Replicator™. MakerBot Industries continues to demonstrate its dedication to putting the tools of creativity into the hands of the those brilliant and bold enough to bring their imagination into the physical world.

Press Kit: View and download photos of The MakerBot Replicator™

View product specs and pre-order your MakerBot Replicator™ today!

It’s 20 years in the future and you’re on a tour at MakerBot Industries HQ.

You really shouldn’t have wandered away from your tour guide. The gleam of glass in a deserted room caught your eye for just a moment… but with that mob of chattering tourists out of sight, the MakerBot facility doesn’t seem quite as friendly as it did a moment ago.

Servos hiss behind you — but that’s not the guidebot’s cheery mask looming out of the shadows. It’s a security bot! You’re in trouble now. You duck into the laboratory. Or is it a showroom? Test chamber? You pull the door shut; hopefully you can hide out until the robot has passed.

MakerBot is proud to launch our next product with a text adventure entitled “Key Features” created by Andrew Plotkin. Text adventures, also known as interactive fiction, have been around since the early days of computing.  In this adventure, when you enter the room you’ll find objects that will help you solve a mystery.

But there’s something innovative and special about this text adventure that’s never been done before! In the game when you pick up an object, like a key, you’ll get a link to Thingiverse.com where you can download the design file and make it on your MakerBot! In the past you’ve had to check your inventory list to know what you’ve got. In this game you can just look in your actual pocket to see the parts you’ve created with the MakerBot.

Only those who can make their way through this adventure will have the hint to what MakerBot will be announcing at CES!

Start playing now!

Instructions for use:

1. Print beloved object on your MakerBot 3D Printer.

2. Place said print in your wonderful MakerBot Bag : You are now the I in ‘I made this for you’.

3. Place the Gift Bag on the fireplace mantel, on his bedside table, or hang it on the fridge.

4. Repeat.

Not for your Spanish Omelet.

For those who thought to themselves, “I want an Egg-Bot, but it won’t work for me on my ostrich farm,” this one’s for you. The Ostrich Egg-Bot kit is a special, extra large version of the original open-source Original Egg-Bot kit with a chassis that fits larger objects, up to 6.25″ in diameter(!) – perfect for ostrich, emu, and your run-of-the-mill jumbo chicken eggs.

It can tackle wine glasses, Christmas ornaments, mini pumpkins, and more, so vegetarians can get their paint on, guilt-free!

The Ostrich Egg-Bot is equipped with CNC cut plywood, and laser engraved calibration and assembly marks. With high-torque precision stepping motors, this bot means business. Get one today!

They're not gonna catch us. We're on a mission from MakerBot.

Howdy intrepid MakerBot Operators! Today we have released the newest additions to our line of experimental nozzles, the 1.0 mm and 1.5 mm MK7 big bore nozzles. Carefully machined in house by our own Charles Pax, these nozzles are custom made and doubly awesome. These nozzles will have you printing at the round cutting edge of MakerBot extrusion. Maybe it’s just me, but when I see this photo I can’t help but think of John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd tearing down the highway on their way to Chicago.

This nozzle is designed for MK7 users, so those with a Plastruder MK5 and Stepstruder MK6 will unfortunately have to sit this one out.

Make sure to adjust your Print-O-Matic settings accordingly. Limited supply so get them while you can!

We’re cleaning out our inventory at the Botcave! Last week we put up a grab bag of extra parts in our store and everyone loves it – so we made another one with a whole new set of items in it. You can pick up some pulleys, M8 bolts, timing belts, all at a fraction of their cost for your own projects. The best part is we’re selling each bag for only $9.99! Most of these parts are from the cupcake – so this is a chance to stock up on some extra parts for veteran MakerBot operators, but it’s really just a great deal that makes sense. My favorite things in this kit that I know are a great deal are the smooth steel rods used in the cupcake. If I tried to buy these separately I’d probably spend over thirty dollars just for the rods.

In the spirit of crazy grab bagness, we don’t guarantee items and quantities in each bag, but we do guarantee an incredible deal on each one (10 Bucks!). It’s a fraction of the cost! So pick up one in the store today: grab bag#1 and make your parts drawer all that much happier.

The Botmobile

Last week we launched MakerBot Projects, featuring the Botmobile, the Dynamo! and the Windup Walkers. I’m excited to say we already have some great Thingiverse activity to report.

Thingiverse User Luis printed out a gorgeous silver body in PLA with an orange ABS interior (featured above). We can’t wait to see this dune buggy ride!

(More after the jump.)

Meanwhile Zignig rebuilt the Botmobile in Blender – laying the foundation for a larger set of thingiverse users to create their own derivatives quickly.

MakerBot Dynamo!

A few hours after Michael posted the thingiverse item for the Dynamo!, Thingiverse User Ryguy printed a scorching red dynamo! and put together a working model from spare parts! We have a special kind of affection for makers with all the right parts lying around their workshop – it means we’ve done a good job designing a project for more than one level of MakerBot operator.

Windup Walkers

I’m holding my breath full of suspense on this one – we sold out of our entire stock over the holiday weekend! I’m racing to get more of these in our store next week, by which time I expect to see quite a few copies of the Tardis, R.maker and awesome new designs pop up on thingiverse. if you wanted a five-pack of Windup Walkers and you didn’t get a chance, hold tight – We’ll have them again soon enough! Meanwhile, first copy rights go to Thingiverse user Pazu, with this sharp looking black copy.

If you’re not familiar with our MakerBot projects, you should check out the awesome introduction video below by Annelise.