Makerbot Lays Off 20% of Its Staff for the 2nd Time This Year
Makerbot, one of the most recognizable names in the 3d printing industry, has had a really tough year.
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MakerBot Faces Class Action Lawsuit Over Faulty Extruders
MakerBot grew from a fun project by three friends in a hackerspace in Brooklyn, to being THE name in desktop 3D printing. Over the last few years, though, that name has been drug through the mud; from the community backlash when they decided to go closed source after building their reputation on open source projects, to […]
Adafruit Sits Down and Talks with Makerbot’s New CEO
Over the first few years of their existence, Makerbot leveraged their community and the bourgeoning open source hardware movement to make their name synonymous with desktop 3D printing. What Kleenex is to facial tissue or Scotch is to cellophane tape, Makerbot has come to be for 3D printing. But then came a shift, patents began to be […]
I Used 3D Hubs to Print a Phone Dock. Here’s What Happened.
Last week, Make:‘s Matt Stultz wrote about the new collaboration between MakerBot’s design community, Thingiverse, and the Amsterdam-based 3D Hubs. Eventually, the collaboration could bring together Thingiverse’s 700,000 designs with 3D Hubs’ 15,000 printer locations — though for now, the feature is available only for parts developed by a handful of pre-selected designers. In March, I used 3D Hubs to print a part of my own, […]
MakerBot Teams With 3D Hubs, Offers Local Thingiverse Prints
For a long time now, two major questions have come up around Thingiverse: How can I print things from Thingiverse if I don’t own a printer? How — as a designer — can I get paid for my designs on Thingiverse? Yesterday, MakerBot took a big step forward on both of these questions by teaming up […]
MakerBot’s New Tool Converts 2D Sketches to 3D Designs
MakerBot snuck a bold feature into the latest version of their PrintShop iOS app: a tool called Shape Maker that transforms photos of 2D designs into 3D printable models. It’s a neat feature, particularly for educators, but it’s also a cogent bid to ease more 3D printer owners from printing others’ designs to creating their own. “You’ve got great […]
MakerBot Lays Off 100 Employees, Closes All Retail Stores
The company announces plans to re-organize it business through staff and expense reductions and closure of its three brick-and-mortar stores.
