If you’re a maker, 3d printing is an incredibly useful tool to have in your arsenal. Not only can it help bring your projects to life faster, but it can also offer unique results that would be difficult (or impossible!) to achieve with traditional methods. In these blog posts, we’ll provide you with some essential information and tips regarding 3D printing for makers—including the basics of how to get started, plus creative tutorials for spicing up your projects. Whether you’re already familiar with 3d printing or are just starting out, these resources will help take your game-making skills even further!
Today Ladyada and I visited the new MakerBot store in NYC. Video above, (photos here). Great location, and it was packed in waves, even on a Sunday. MakerBot has MakerBot-made designs for sale in the store, as well as community-made models. All the designers were contacted and compensated for their participation. If you’re keeping score […]
In the wake of MakerBot’s Replicator 2 announcement, there has been a lot of discussion and questioning about the open source status of the company’s offerings. The MakerWare software used to control both the new printer and the original Replicator is available for download now. It is clearly closed source, even though it contains some open source software, and instead of being open source, they are offering a developer program.
Last month as we were rounding up 3D printers to test for our upcoming special Make: Ultimate Guide to 3D Printers, I had the pleasure of meeting Diego Porqueras, maker of the Bukobot. Though he lives in the Los Angeles area, he was visiting his sister in Northern California, and offered to hand-deliver a Bukobot […]
The 3D printer market is absolutely blowing up, with 3D printing entering the mainstream and new printer companies launching regularly. Our first 3D Printer Village at Maker Faire New York was back in 2010, and over the past three years, 3D printer enthusiast John Abella has been leading the charge for us, acting as organizer […]
MAKE’s Matt Richardson gives us a little peek inside the new MakerBot store, announced today at 3pm Eastern at the MakerBot press event.
A new player on the field by the name of Tangibot recently arrived, not with a new printer or even an innovative new derivative, but with a near-exact clone of arguably the most prominent printer in the market: the MakerBot Replicator. Will MakerBot close their products in an attempt to protect themselves from future cloning?
The Makerbot Replicator 2 is just that, a second generation of MakerBot’s wildly popular Replicator 3D printer, now faster, quieter, and more rigid than the original. “Hand assembled in Brooklyn, NY,” the Replicator 2 sports a sleek black metal and PVC case, oil-impregnated bronze linear bearings, a larger build volume, and faster printing times. The upgrades make what was already a fantastic machine, even butter. But the improvements do come at an increased cost that could be a deal breaker for some buyers.
