CrashSpace (the new Los Angeles hackerspace) is hosting a Makerbot Make-In starting noon Sunday Dec 27th and continuing on a few of the following days. This is our first event. We will be building several Makerbots from early mechanical up through first prints (hopefully!!)
If you have a bot (finished or unfinished), come on by and build!
Exact continuance days and times depends on response. Notices will be posted to http://groups.google.com/group/crashspace and http://groups.google.com/group/lamakerbot
Crash Space wiki
10526 Venice Blvd, Culver City CA 90232
(see wiki for map links, etc)
If you’re interested in laser scanning you’re going to need a laser level. Recently I got some laser levels from DealExtreme. It’s a bit touch and go, I got 4 lasers and 2 of them have good lines, so if you get some, get a few!
If you’ve got a hookup on galvanometers, drop a note in the comments!
Ok, it only works on windows at the moment and it only works with OBJ files, but Meshmixer looks AWESOME! Get over to Thingiverse, grab two open objects, export them as OBJ files in Blender and MASH THEM UP!
I saw this photo in the MakerBot photo pool. Bas Piljs used the scrap lasercut part that holds the brackets as a sorting tray to keep the nuts and bolts for assembly separate. So elegant! I’m definitely using this idea in the future.
We’re very excited to announce that we have custom-designed hand-made 1AEON t-shirts in the MakerBot Store. They are printed on American Apparel tshirts and are awesome.
I’ve been friends with 1AEON since I saw his work over at Etsy and worked with Tara Young to make this video about him. Besides making shirts for sale on Etsy, he is a designer for hire who has made the NYCResistor t-shirts and Things t-shirts.
Here’s a picture that shows you a bit of the process. Everything is handmade. 1AEON builds and burns the screens and then prints them.
Robert Bowdidge discovered a cool way to make model train buildings!
I wondered if I could break up the long side pieces so that the top layer couldn’t pull across the piece to cause the warp. Back in SketchUp, I made the piece twice as deep, and cut some wedges out of the thickened back side perpendicular to the warping.
