Bre Pettis Shows Off New MakerBot Book at CES
To celebrate the release of Getting Started with MakerBot, we’re offering 20% off on the book in the Maker Shed. This discount will be valid all through CES week
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Recent News in 3D Printing
A lot has happened in the world of 3D printing over the last week and the start of CES brought on a wave of new products, as it always does. 3D Systems announced two new printers in their Cubify lineup, and MakerBot made an official announcement regarding the release of their “experimental” dual extrusion printer, the Replicator 2X.
MAKE at CES 2013: MakerBot Unveils Replicator 2X and Parametric Design Tool
From a packed booth at CES, MakerBot CEO Bre Pettis pulled the cover off the MakerBot Replicator 2X, an experimental version of the Replicator 2, which was announced last September. The 3D printer is equipped with two extruders and a heated build plate. It’s also fully enclosed and optimized for ABS plastic filament. According to […]
MakerBot Replicator 2 Now Shipping From the Maker Shed!
The MakerBot Replicator 2 is now available for immediate shipping in the Maker Shed! MakerBot’s latest machine won one of three Best in Class awards in our Ultimate Guide to 3D Printing and is a fantastic all-around printer.
Five Questions for Zach “Hoeken” Smith
Zach “Hoeken” Smith is a co-founder of MakerBot, but he left the company 18 months ago and now calls Shenzhen, China home. In addition to pursuing his own projects he’s the program director for Haxlr8r , San Francisco-based hardware start-up incubator. As part of MAKE’s coverage of the “maker pro” space, I recently interviewed Zach about his work in China.
Bre Pettis @OHS: “Challenges of Open Source Consumer Products”
This is a transcription of the talk MakerBot CEO Bre Pettis gave at Thursday’s Open Hardware Summit in New York. It is based on the official recorded video stream of Session 3, which is available in its entirety here. Bre’s talk begins at about 1:20:41.
OHS and MakerBot’s Source
At this year’s Open Hardware Summit (9/27) in NYC, the MAKE video team asked some key participants (from MakerBot, SparkFun, Evil Mad Scientist, OpenROV and others) what they thought about MakerBot closing off some of its source files. Here’s some of what they had to say. More: Our coverage of the new MakerBot product release […]
