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We’ve been up to all kinds of fun at MakerBot these days – announcing The Makerbot Replicator, revealing an all new version of Thingiverse, killing it at CES. And now I’m pleased to have the honor of dropping one more awesome bomb on your day – this video!

This all new stop-animation music video was made with Michael Curry’s playset characters and a number of other MakerBot-made pieces! The princesses story was written by MakerBot CEO and co-founder Bre Pettis and the song was written and performed by local Brooklyn musicians Scary Car (Bryan Scary and Giulio Carmassi). It’s fun, it’s catchy, and incredibly awesome!

Dragon Head Trophy by Tony Buser

A dragon headed printer?!  THIS is why I love DIY 3D printing!!!  Not only is this a great mashup, but it’s also a super sweet looking print.  It’s also a constant reminder that I don’t have enough dragon heads on my stuff. ^1 2 3

Dragon Head Trophy by tbuser

Puff the Magic Dragon lived by the sea. Then that kid chopped off his head. So now he hangs on the wall above his bed. Poetry FTW. Started when I simply added a base to make it easier to print and I got carried away. You can customize it relatively easily in OpenSCAD. Requires OpenSCAD League Gothic Font Module by avrgeek thingiverse.com/thing:6820

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1. Plus, you know, there’s the ecological impact of mounting real dragon heads on printers. [↩]
2. And the smell. [↩]
3. Even dragon pelts are smelly. [↩]

Drag(on) Racing

Last night Bre asked me if I wanted to have a design race.  Yes, yes I do. ¹  The rules he proposed were:

1. An agreed upon common word or theme
2. 25 minutes to upload the design to Thingiverse

Since he made up the rules, I got to choose the topic.  Here there would be DRAGONS!

And 24 minutes later, Thingiverse was two dragon designs richer with Bre’s Dragon Blocks and my Dragon design.

So, help us out – which design would you choose?

1. Apparently had Bre forgotten what happened the last time someone challenged me.  Poor poor laser dinosaur… [↩]