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Today is the last day of our month-long giveaway of kits from Maker Shed and the Make: Ultimate Kit Guide 2012. As with the launch, we’re celebrating the end with ANOTHER MakerBot giveaway. Thanks for participating and we hope you and yours have a fabulous holiday.
To celebrate the release of our latest publication, the Make: Ultimate Kit Guide 2012 (and its companion website), we’re giving away at least one of the cool kits reviewed in the issue each day during the holiday season. Today, we’re giving away our fifth and final MakerBot Thing-O-Matic (a $1,300 value!), featured on the cover of the Ultimate Kit Guide. Here’s Make: Labs intern Eric Chu’s review of Thing-O-Matic from the issue:
If you want to get into 3D printing but don’t know where to start, the MakerBot Thing-O-Matic Kit is the way to go. It’s a complete kit, so you need no additional parts, and a large user community can back you up if problems pop up (not to mention Thingiverse, where you can find awesome open source designs). It took me about 20 hours to build the Thing-O-Matic and start printing, and I improved its accuracy with more tuning, calibrating, and tinkering with settings in the ReplicatorG software. If you have any trouble, read the discussion at the bottom of every build step. I’ve since 3D-printed many fun and handy things (everyone loves a 3D-printed gift!) and the MakerBot is now by far the most-used machine at Make: Labs.
To be eligible for today’s giveaway, all you have to do is leave a comment below in this post. Writing a haiku will not help your chances (but it may give us a laugh.) The entry period for today’s prize will be until 11:59pm PST tonight. We’ll choose one person at random, you’ll be notified by email, and you’ll have 48 hours to respond. The Winners List is kept on the Giveaway landing page. That’s it! No purchase necessary or anything else to do. Please leave only one comment per post. You can enter as many giveaways as you like until you win. This giveaway is for US residents only. You also must be 18 years old to enter (Kids: Ask your parents to enter). See the Kit-A-Day Giveaway landing page for full sweepstakes details and Official Rules.
Important Note: If you enter this drawing, when it’s over, please check the place where you registered to comment (eg. Facebook, Yahoo, Twitter). Some people are winning these kits and then not responding when we send them a message using the available means of contacting them. We want to make sure you get your giveaway!
There’s that temptation to shout FIRST again…..
5’s my lucky number.
ThingOMatic rules!
Has been fun trying, at least!
Please, please, pick me!
Oh man a 3D printer would make my entire life.
Last Chance!
and now I will imagine for the next few minutes how I would change the world with this.
Last chance to win one. Otherwise my credit card is going to hate me in January.
Like I said on the last four: sweet. Want.
One last try! Merry Christmas everyone!
yes please!
This time for sure!
5’s a charm, right?
last chance to get in on some makerbot awesomeness! i so want one.
This is the 1. I can feel it.
Definitely worth another shot at this. Keeping my fingers crossed!
ah, last hope.
maybe this time :-)
yes, please
5th time is the charm?
Yep I want… side note, someone replied to a thread and I didn’t get an email. Wondering now if I might have missed something… ugh!
A MakerBot would certainly liven up the Toy Lab!
One last one to try…
Here is hoping!
wish santa will come and bring this 3D printer to me
Again, I hope this is available to Canadians.
It’s my last chance!
Please me! :-D I hope I hope I hope!
It’s my lucky day.
Comment Comment gimmegimmegimmme.
Please please.
Once Thing-O-Matic becomes sentient it will take over the world and destroy us all. Until then we can enjoy printing out ABS rabbits.
One last try!
please can i win?!?!?
This would make my year!
Oh man…THIS is the one I win. I can feel it.
This would be awesome!
Thanks
enter me! last chance at makerbot
My students would love this!
Please may I have it?
Thing-O-Matic is for me?
Chances are, not great…
I Believe
woo hoo! enter me!
Perchance
This would be a fun gift
It would be a festivus miracle!
Think of all the random stuff I could produce!
Comment.
COOL.
Please, please, please, please!
Wonderful! Happy Holidays, everyone!
oh on it’s the last one I need it
Please! 5th time’s a charm!
This would be neat.
HEY-O!
One more roll! C’mon, baby! (throws the dice across the table)
Merry Christmas all,
May the winner use the MakerBot for good, and not evil.
Or not really evil anyway, some light evil might be ok
So many possibilities with a Thing-o-Matic. Here’s hoping that the 5th time’s the charm.
try again
please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Would be awesome to share with my co-workers…
Last chance. Gimme gimme
Count me in
3D Printer!
Fifth time’s a charm…
Mee want!! gooody gooody!!
One last shot at a Makerbot. Let’s do this.
Pick me!!!
Cool!
Pick me!!!
I’ll take one kit, please
I know that I won’t win this, but I would love to have one.
One more time…
It is just the thing everyone needs,
5th time is the charm.
please count me in !
I will print out a few sets of reprap parts and distribute them to people if i win a Makerbot!
Can’t even describe how much I want this.
please please pick me this is so cool
yes please!!!
I want one of these sooo bad.
I’m in for the final drawing
The last one… Sure to make their Christmas! Thanks Make!!
one more try! *tosses hat into ring*
Last one!
Hey guys… I think there is a major glitch in your system… I have entered the previous giveaways for the MakerBot and your system inadvertently selected someone else. Please correct it today so we can win the last MakerBot.
Happy Holidays to all!
THE FUUUUUUTURE
Oh daaaaang, man
I can’t say it enough – you guys are awesome. Not just for the giveaways – although that is amazing in itself, but for publishing what you do, as often as you do. Thanks!
I’ve been trying to figure out how to get one of these so I can teach my two daughters how to design and create things as they grow up. Oh, and have fun myself too! :) Here’s throwing hope to the winds…
Sign me up!
I really want one of these….
I want this. I demand this. Please.
Well, here’s hoping!
making stuff
Looks good!!
Woot
Like!
Hello world
Want.
Now that’s something worth posting for!
One last try…
Yes please.
Number 5 … I have to win, I don’t think there is any choice.
i would like one.
Yes please.
Yes!
What do James Barrett, Elizabeth Lingo, Rob Tsou, Ian Fox, and Marc Schaefermeyer have in common?
Nothing yet, but I hope we do soon after I win this!
When do you publish who the winners are (were)?
Please! I’d love to win this!
You were saving the last one for me, were’nt you :D
blue bunny- all I have to say
Purty please?!
win win win!
Thanks for this entire giveaway.
So far, it’s been like a fruitless (and chocolateless and toyless) advent calendar, but I’ve enjoyed opening every tiny door, feeling each brief flutter of hope.
merry whatever you want, i’m wanting me a new toy.
C’mon Christmas Miracle
Last chance…
Yes please!
fingers crossed
My last chance. Please, oh please oh please oh please….
5th time is a charm, as was 4, 3, 2, and 1.
Were you trying to be dramatic, saving me for the last gift? I didn’t appreciate it. But I’ll take it anyway.
Winner, please.
Must win something
Keep trying :)
Make. Want.
Been meaning to see how 3D printing could be useful in my hobbies and profession (Model Railroading and Architecture respectively). This be a great way to find out!
Make this a holiday to remember.
Oh! Pick me! Pick me!
i would love to get my 3d print on
One more try!
Did I win?
This would be a nice occasion to play with Sketchup again!
Oo me
Luck be a lady tonight!
This is a ccmment
First thing I would make would be that blue bunny… for sure.
Last chance, here’s hoping.
Would love to win!
Would make a nice Hanukkah present for myself!
maybe I have a shot at this one?
If I don’t win I’m not sure how to convince my wife into letting me buy one. Crossing my fingers.
Please, SantaBot. All I want for Christmas is YOU!
A chance for my very own pseudo-teleportation device? Sign me up!
I can haz?
come on baby!
This is my last chance! Who wouldn’t want one of these. Please pick me!
O Santa of the make giveaway, please pick me!
I’m in! I have so many ideas to print!
First thing I would make? A custom phone mount for my car!
Woohoo!
Pretty please! Pretty please!
PLEASE, SANTA
One More Try
It’s a nice looking kit.
in, once again
Last chance!
3D printing sounds so cool. Would love to try it.
The kids and I would have so much fun with this.
5th time is the charm!
put me in coach
This would “Make” my Christmas.
Well, fifth time’s a charm. So many things to print.
The last one will me mine.
5th time?
I would love to win one!
Last try, wish me luck :D
Had a dream that I needed to check my eMail because I had won, unfortunately I hadn’t. So 5th time’s the charm!
Have about four or five printable projects in mind since these giveaways started.Guess if I don’t win I can always try to cobble one together out of discarded printers lol.
Congratulations to whoever wins this :)
(here is secretly hoping its me)
yes please!
Please Please santa
Fifth try is the charm. Here’s hoping I finally get drawn for a prize!
Would be great gift to get!
My last chance to win one of these marvelous devices.
Pick me!
last chance to win!
I sure could use one of these!
Last chance! Sudo make me a merry Xmas!
Please, I would like one.
gimmegimmegimmegimmegimme
The last kit-a-day! I would still love to own a MakerBot.
I would gladly take that off your hands!
So cool!
I dreamed I won one of these last night and then used it to fashion a device that cured cancer. Do you really want to tempt fate by not letting me win this?
Me, me me me me me me me me me. Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
28 middle school pre-engineering students would have the best New Year ever with one of these!
Please, oh please. Great promotion guys. Would be nicer if I could win, but still kudos all around.
Pick me! I’m ready for my X-mas miracle!
would be an awesome project
I’m feeling lucky on this one…
Loving the Ultimate kit guide. This is on the list.
I’d be thrilled to win this. Thanks, Make, for running this giveaway!
fingers crossed
I can use it
This would make a nice addition to workshop!
Please pick me. I want to win something, and there is so many things i want to make with this.
yaa
If I win, I will probably pee my pants a little!
Can I print gifts for my friends yet? Have I won? The answer to both questions will be similar.
A printing I would go!
I want.
Why make a bunny when you can make a jackalope!
One more chance to win. I can see so much potential for one of these.
so would love one. :)
Yes, Please
I’m hoping to build a 3D laser scanner over the next two weeks. It’d be great to have something to print those scans with.
This is my last chance.
We could use one of these at the studio, and my kids would love it. I’m in.
So. Many. IDEAS!
Last chance…..I hope my luck changes
Please send to me and I’ll give you a big tip. Where red fuzzy underwear and tip will be bigger.
Please Santa, I’ll Make toys for all the girls and boys!
I so want to make some sculptures with this.
drop my name in the hat…and a merry Christmas to all
So many potential projects…so little time.
last chance try….
Hello, I would like to win the Makerbot please.
Ah! I just noticed all my previous comments had been pointing to an old twitter name though it’s the same account. But when you click my profile it went to something else.
Well this is it… I really really want one of these to make my holidays complete. I promise I’ll only use it for good. Merry Christmas guys and thanks for doing this!
The last Makerbot, here we go!
Count me in!
This time for SURE!
I would love to win this!
Make: ROCKS!
I would love to have this.
*crosses fingers*
I want one!!
One of these would still be awesome under the tree for my beginner Maker.
Count me in
I’ve been wanting to get into 3D printing…
One more (hopefully lucky!) shot!
I want it! Sign me up!
Puhleeeze pick me!
prize prize prize prize prize
prize prize prize prize prize prize prize
prize prize prize prize prize
I’d like to have one of these to make a tiny army of 3d homunculi to do my evil bidding.
Fifth time’s the charm!!
one last try for a cool printer
It would be nice to actually win one of these drawings…
My last chance, I need one!
I’m dreaming of MakerBot Christmas!
Huzzah!
I’m going to use this to make another Makerbot.
Oooh, last chance!
Last chance before having to save my pennies to get one…
Make all my Christmas wishes come true!!!!
Come on Christmas miracle!! :)
dr_harsh… you’re hilarious, and I agree… “So far, it’s been like a fruitless (and chocolateless and toyless)
advent calendar, but I’ve enjoyed opening every tiny door, feeling each
brief flutter of hope.”
i can feel it
I’m in.
Uh-oh! This is it!
Woot!
We want we want we want!
My husband would love one of these.
last chance for a makerbot
Ok…..fifth time’s a charm!
Pick me! Pick me! I need to print some gears!
Many great things begin with a single step…and so do lots of little cool projects!
I want, no NEED, to win this! ***fingers crossed***
Iwannaprintabunny
I wonder if the toys produced in this are child-chewing-safe?
I know I’ll never win…But I must continue to try !!! Because without effort failure is guaranteed !!!
I want to win!!!
Last chance. *Crosses fingers*
Ohh. Ohh. Ohh. So totally very cool and wonderful!
Printer Printer Printer
Here’s hoping…
Sign me up
Fifth time’s the charm!
I’m putting my name in the hat again. If I don’t win it this time, I guess I can stop wondering what my ITR will be used for this year.
“Really want” can’t really convey how much i want one of these things.
It’s been fun to enter for this magical little boxes! If it comes my way I plan to delight all the kids on the block with 3D printology.
Happy Holidays!
Hook me in for the win!
Oh heck! The last one!!
I would like to entry the drawing.
My husband would LOVE to know he is getting one of these for Christmas. A lot better then the sunglasses I got him. Help me out!
Long time listener, first time caller…I’d love to win this. For what it’s worth, it would be donated to a children’s science museum in Fort Worth, Texas if I win.
this would be so great to win
well….it’s been fun!
Sign me up!
So very very awesome
ohplzohplzohplz…..
5th try.
Thing-O-Matic’s will help our future overlords in their quest to produce more of themselves. And by the way Happy Festivus to all and to all a Good Festivus. You may now begin the Airing of Grievances.
Dear santa….
I hope Angus Hines wins! ( its his birthday today :^)
It’s a Festivus Miracle!
I want this. Please make it so.
Once more into the breach.
Would look great under the tree!
Oooooh another thing-o-matic.
This would make a great Christmas gift!
Boy-oh-boy, could I use this!
Awesome – Thanks again!
No Wammy, No Wammy, No Wammy…… Stop!!
I’m Hoping As Hard As I CAN! NNNNNGGGGHHHH!!
I want one please.
Starving engineering student would love one!
Daddy needs a new pair of shoes…… and this would allow me to make some! Sorta.
Awesome giveaway. I want in!
Entry
What a great Christmas gift this would be!
I would print you a 3d comment were I to win!
maybe this time ill get lucky and win!
SWEET, please let me be the winner!
OK, gotta give it another try
It would be so great to win this! I’m into creating artwork on vinyl toys so this would be an awesome way to make some characters come to life.
My son would think I was the most awesome mom ever if I won this!!!!
last chance…
My kid (and I) would love one of these!
What a way to start he new year this would be.
Love the MakerBot!
Would it help if I promised to make more things for good than for evil?
Do Want.
If I win this, I can “make” some new friends.
I deserve this.
oh a festivus present for myself!
May be this time!
If I can’t own an airship or robot army, then one of these can at least make me some miniature versions. Bring on the mighty Thing-O-Matic!
One more try – looking to get one for my daughter’s middle school tech lab!
Make my christmas! Seriously, this would.
You guys realize that this is probably your last opportunity to give me one of these, right?
Who knows you cant win if you don’t try..
winning would make my day!!!!
Oh yes!
Oh Please, Please, Please pick me!
RNG, please favor me!
Hooray for MakerBot!
woot! me please!
Five is the charm so they say.
Count me in!
One more time! It’s been nice seeing all these wonderful kits.
nice give it another try.
A Thing-O-Matic would be an awesome addition for the local hackerspace and just (well almost ;~) in time for Christmas!
Good luck to everyone and thank you MAKE: for the opportunity!
Merry Christmas!
Haven’t won anything yet but doesn’t mean I’ll stop trying!
I’m feeling lucky
It would be awesome to win this, hope I do.
Just when I thought I was out… they pull me back in…
May all your Xmas wishes come true
I am waiting Santa
Well, this is it. My FINAL chance at the ULTIMATE tool for my maker shop. PLEASE send the Thing-O-Matic to my house…….PLEASE?!?!?
pick me
Thing one or thing two?
When you wish upon a makerbot…
please!
i’d love one!
Maybe it’s me this time… That would be wonderful :)
Happy holidays!
give it to meeee.
I WON! I WON! ( with the power of positive thinking….)
come on, baby, daddy needs a new makerbot! *rolls the dice*
My last chance, please make my Christmas dream come true!
Whoohoo!
ZOMG! 3d printer for me? How thoughtful of you Make :D
Last chance to win a makerbot… Please be the one!
Come on lucky number 101!
I want!
Merry Christmas to the Make staff, and all the other makers out there!
I want this last one. I could make the blue rabbit in the picture. Probably a cat instead. Probably white or grey instead. Ok, Ok. I won’t be making a blue rabbit after all. But think of the possibilities.
here’s hoping for the last one.
everybody needs one of these
Yes!
I would really like this!
This is exactly the sort of thing I need to eat up what little free time I have.
last chance! make it count!
Yes! Please :)
I would love this!
please please please please!
It would be an awesome xmas gift
Need. With a suffix like “o-matic”, you know it’s a classic.
Maker it!!
Another chance!!
Finger’s Crossed! Please Santa Please.
I’d like to win!!!
This time for sure!
Thank again for the contest!
perty perty perty please!
I need to fab some bones!
This is Santa’s last chance to come through. C’mon SANTA!
Just wait until I unleash this in my neighborhood. I’ll take 2.
5the time is a charm?
It you don’t want it, I’ll have your Thing-O-Matic. Merry Christmas to all!
makerbots are very cool!
This is awesome!
this would be awesome
please help me obi wan.. you’re my only hope!
OK — this is your last chance to pick me!
I’d like to echo some of the comments I’ve seen. Thank you so much for this whole giveaway thing… and everything else that you guys and gals do. Make does some really cool things, and I’m grateful for all of them. The world is a better place for it.
One more chance == one more comment from me
Want.
I NEEEEED this.
Sign me up please!
Ok so I really want to win this for my lifelong buddy, who has been a great friend not only to me, but to all of us as he is a US army veteran. He is an incredibly talented dude and makes stuff all the time. I can only imagine what he’d accomplish with this thing.
Okay, here goes my last try! :)
yes send it my way please
Wow, great giveaway!
Last one – make it count … for me, please!
To Make or not to Make. This IS the answer.
Oh please oh please oh please oh please..
Last chance? Let’s make it happen for the plucky little hackerspace from Olympia! :)
I need one!
dupe entry.. sorry. delete it.
Ill take one ….
I would like one blue-bunny making machine please.
oh please oh please oh please
Hope Hope Hope! I NEED that Blue-Bunny-MAKEing Machine
Sounds awesome, I could use it for my projects like these: http://www.thingiverse.com/fasaxc
the maker-bot’s a spider
her spinarrette extrudes
soft buzz: “fiat electro-lux”
Yes ma’am!
Last chance, got my fingers crossed
Would be fantastic! So many things to print!
One more try can’t hurt!
Even if I don’t win, this series has shown some cool ideas
oh I want one
o santa, don’t forget about me!
Comment.
Last chance! Oh please Santa Maker, I’ve been good!
+1 for random drawings. -Mr. Random.
Merry Christmas!
Wow, what an awesome Christmas present!
Santa.. I am very sorry for that little incident in Las Vegas and I promise if I get this as a present I will be a much better boy this year!!
Oh hells yes. I have far, far too many ideas that could seriously benefit from the use/abuse of one of these.
pick me!
hey hey pick me!!
Come on, daddy needs a new minion creator!!
I’ll settle for this one though…
Big money. No whammy.
Happy Holidays
Come on Makerbot for Christmas!
It’ll look great on my coffee table. Darn.. we’re out of coasters… oh! No we’re not!
If I can use a MakerBot to make another MakerBot out of nothing… By god, I should be able to make a MakerBot out of nothing!
Saving the best for last.
I would love to make things with this … Clock parts. Yes.
please please please please! Fifth time’s the charm, right?
This is a great gift!!! (for me that is..)
one more try!
For a brighter tomorrow!
Yaaaaaay!
Santa? Hello? It’s Festivus, how can this not be for me…
for great justice!
Pretty please.
Oh no! My last chance!
Maybe this time?
Please, please Santa. I’ve been a very good boy this year.
Sign me up! :)
one more shot
This is a thing I need.
I need this to start working on gifts for next Christmas.
Third …. errr …. Fouth ….. ohh I mean fifth time is a charm …. come on MakerBot … dady needs to print a new set of dice …..
Yes please!
nice nice
thingo matic would be cool to have.
Merry Christmas to everyone working today (esp. at Makezine)
You want to give this to me for Christmas. Yes, you do.
Daddy needs a new pair of extruded plastic shoes!
Last chance comment!
Mine!
I’m in.
I promise to use it to print parts for my doomsday device (or make other cools things)
Fifth time’s the charm!