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MakerBot Operators
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Up until last year, 3D printing could only be done by the wealthy or those with access to elite institutions. The “MakerBot” 3D printer is cheap and open source and comes as a kit. Once you’ve put it together, you’re a “MakerBot” operator. “MakerBot” operators work together to bring 3D printers to the desktops of the world and to create a community around digital design and community innovation. With a “MakerBot”, anyone can create an object from a digital design in less time than it takes to go to the store. The “MakerBot” operator community has participated in the machine's development and the community members support each other by sharing designs and helping each other to create beautiful and practical 3D printed objects on Thingiverse.com.
The project is fully open source. The machine’s design files, electronics and software are all openly documented under GPLv3 and the community encourages open-source licenses for digital design files.
The greatest thing is that the “MakerBot” operator community is united in developing the infrastructure to make it easy so more and more people will be able to create things on their 3D printers instead of going to the store. Members of the “MakerBot” community are also exploring ways of using 3D printers to help with disaster relief.
A recent example that showcases how great the community is was Cathal Garvey, a “MakerBot” operator in Ireland with a mouse problem. He asked the community to publish open-source designs for mousetraps that would catch but not kill the mouse. By the next morning there were eight new mousetrap designs on Thingiverse! (http://www.thingiverse.com/tag:mousetrap)
The community has a Google group, a Flickr group, a Twitter presence, a Facebook group and an IRC channel.
Links: http://makerbot.com http://thingiverse.com
The project is fully open source. The machine’s design files, electronics and software are all openly documented under GPLv3 and the community encourages open-source licenses for digital design files.
The greatest thing is that the “MakerBot” operator community is united in developing the infrastructure to make it easy so more and more people will be able to create things on their 3D printers instead of going to the store. Members of the “MakerBot” community are also exploring ways of using 3D printers to help with disaster relief.
A recent example that showcases how great the community is was Cathal Garvey, a “MakerBot” operator in Ireland with a mouse problem. He asked the community to publish open-source designs for mousetraps that would catch but not kill the mouse. By the next morning there were eight new mousetrap designs on Thingiverse! (http://www.thingiverse.com/tag:mousetrap)
The community has a Google group, a Flickr group, a Twitter presence, a Facebook group and an IRC channel.
Links: http://makerbot.com http://thingiverse.com
The “MakerBot“ operators community grew up around the open-source “MakerBot“ Industries hardware, which is a cheap and affordable 3D printing machine. The digital designing “MakerBot“ operators use Thingiverse.com to share and collaborate and bring digital designs into the world of the physical. The production team is lean, but there are over 1,000 members in the worldwide “MakerBot“ operator network.