MakerBot video
Radar Nineteen on Babelgum did a really nice video about MakerBot Industries, suitable for even non-technical audiences.
3D Printing & Imaging
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!
More MakerBot holiday printables
I’ll be printing some ornaments as gifts this xmas on my MakerBot CupCake CNC, and you can too! Thingiverse is filling up with holiday printables, check out the newest added things! More: CupCake CNC build, part 5: Pulley & enclosure finishing
DIY batlamp
Feel like you are missing something in your life? It’s probably because you don’t have your own batsignal. Fortunately, thanks to Philipp Tiefenbacher, you can build your own with these plans to make a batlamp.
Print a MakerBot ornament with your MakerBot
Celebrate the holidays in style with these adorable MakerBot ornaments, by Thingaverse user rplumley. They don’t seem to be available for sale, but you can of course print one at home with your own MakerBot (or Reprap).
Mystery Science Theater 3000 shades
From Thingiverse user gianteye. This is how I’ve seen the world pretty much since 1994 or so. CROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!
MakerBot Sumobot
Will Langford, the Tufts student who created printable shop glasses on his MakerBot and rendered Thom Yorke’s head in 3D, has now printed a Sumbot chassis for an Arduino-driven sumo. Nice work, Will! It’s so cute! Will’s page on Thingiverse More: Print your own glasses Radiohead´s Thom Yorke printed in 3D
Custom branding irons clip onto lighter
I branded myself, about 8 years ago, with a cookie cutter and a blowtorch. The first time my dad saw it, he asked if someone had held me down and mutilated me in some kind of gangland reprisal. Dad thinks my life is a lot more exciting than it actually is.
Anyhoo, Cory just boinged this link to the Shapeways blog, wherein is described a nifty little 3D-printed metal branding iron they’ve developed, which clicks onto a standard disposable butane lighter and is fully customizable with your own logo/gang sign/frat house letters. Click the iron in place, flick the Bic for 30 seconds, and you’re ready to burn some skin!
If you don’t enjoy the smell of your own curdled flesh, this could be a great tool for hallmarking those little handmade wooden widgets you sell on Etsy, or whatever.
[via Boing Boing]
