Automatic Time-Lapse Photography of a MakerBot print
Marty McGuire has been hard at work teaching his Makerbot to take automatic time-lapse videos as it prints parts.
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Moving? Don’t bother packing, just bring your Makerbot!
My friend Marty recently moved away, and apparently forgot a few things on the way, such as his shower curtain and bottle opener.
Using a MakerBot as a microscope
Catarina M and Joel Belouet have been experimenting with using a MakerBot as a microscope stage.
Haz MakerBot… now what?
The Twin Cities’ communal workshop, the Hack Factory, bought a MakerBot CupCake 3D printer. Working for about six hours, some of my cohorts assembled the X and Y stages and partially installed the assembly in the body. With any luck we’ll be printing this time next week. We’re all excited to finally have a 3D […]
Printable stereoscopic viewer
Thingiverse user kongorilla designed this kicking stereoscopic viewer as his entry for the Makerbot Giveaway.
MakerBots at Cambridge Mini Maker Faire
At the Cambridge Mini Maker Faire, we had a whole mess of Makerbots. People were very curious about all the plastic being extruded and had lots of questions of the hardy Makerbotters. I had a chance (since I was in the next booth over) to ask a few questions of my own.
Want to know more about the Makerbot? Get your hands on a copy of MAKE, Volume 21. The Makerbot site is full of good info, and you can see and share lots of designs for parts that can be made over at Thingiverse.
Makerbot heated conveyor belt
Charles Pax of NYC Resistor is working on a neat project, a heated conveyor belt allowing you to print multiple objects without having to manually remove each output — the conveyor rolls the items off into a hopper as it’s completed, while still packing the same benefits as the heated build platform. The secret is […]
