The Cupcake CNC was presented at an open-source themed talk at the Gottesman Libraries @ Teachers College, Columbia University.
Very Special Thanks to Skye MacLeod from http://aftered.tv for producing this video the New Blankets for organizing the event.
Makerbotter Marc Cryan created this awesome game with some creative reuse of some spare Gen 2 electronics, and some old mice, apparently.
This shows you how to build an arcade style crane game out of scrap parts. The basic parts are: a motorized assembly that raises and lowers a claw, a track for the assembly to move around on, and a ctontroller with some electronics
via CRANE GAME.
Check out this video featuring HotProceed!!!
Also, this is my first blogpost on the MakerBot Blog.
Joseph over at the replicatorinc blog caught the elusive Adam Mayer on video. My favorite moment is when Adam warns you, if you were a time traveler, not to go back in time and confuse Wozniak by trying to explain bit-torrent to him before it exists.
The gang who does the Radar series over at Babelgum came by the BotCave and made this video. They used Nikon d90’s and it turned out beautiful! Go to their site and check it out big.
Chris Anderson gave a great talk about the future of personal manufacturing. It starts about 11 minutes in and Makerbot is mentioned the around 15 minute mark. Check it.
Here’s are video from the early days of RepRap experimentation in 2007! Science!
Last year I made a video every day of November. This year, it’s time to do it again. Every weekday, I’ll post a new video. I’m doing this with some other video superstars! It’s New In November! Today I’m showing you MakerBot Industries! Oh, and I’m trying to do every video in under 1 1/2 minutes. Speed!
Zaggo is the proud owner of MakerBot 127 and he produced this awesome documentary about making a lamp clamp for his kitchen lamp! Wow, awesome video!
While at toorcamp, we made a machine. Matt, who runs the Metrix space, which will soon be a coffee shop/design workshop, took the machine off our hands and it’s making things like the D20 seen above!
It worked great in the desert, but for some reason, it needed to be tweaked a bit when it returned to civilization, the extrusion was coming out to fast and was squishing down each layer. We changed the speed from 26.5 to 29 to make it stretch out more and the layer hight from 3.75 to 3.5 and it seemed much happier.
This is pretty standard for occasional MakerBot maintenance and I liken it to the days when you got a car and you had to know how it worked because there wasn’t someone to change the oil, you had to do it! Because you put it together, you know how it works and you can tweak it! I’ve found that once a machine is printing happily, it needs very little maintenance to print happily for months.
You don’t have do tweak your MakerBot in a vacuum. The community is there to help. There’s a google group for those that have bought MakerBots and the Forums are lively and full of good advice. If those don’t work, you can always send us a note and we’ll do our best to point you in the right direction.
In the spirit of hot rods, here’s a video that the gang over at Metalab put together of a car!