Helen Yentus, the art director of Riverhead Books, talks about designing a 3D printed slipcase for a limited edition of Chang-rae Lee’s novel “On Such a Full Sea.” The slipcase was printed on a MakerBot Replicator 2 Desktop 3D Printer. Yentus shows her early pencil sketches and describes how they evolved into the slipcase, which she designed in collaboration with the MakerBot Studio.
Brooklyn Tech is the largest specialized high school for STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) in the United States. In this video, teacher Tom Curanovic talks about how rapid prototyping is transforming his computer-integrated manufacturing lab, and senior Vishnu Sanigepalli describes what he has learned by using the MakerBot Replicator 2 Desktop 3D Printer.
The State University of New York at New Paltz is home to the world’s first MakerBot Innovation Center: a ground-floor room with 30 MakerBot Replicator 3D Printers. “3D printing is training students to think in a different way,” says Dan Freedman, dean of science and engineering at New Paltz. “If students come out of here knowing about 3D printing and different applications of it, it will give them a better chance of starting a career.”
Steven Jaworski, a biomedical technician, had to replace so many cables that monitor patients’ vital signs that he ordered cable tethers from a medical supplier for $24.50 per cable, or $73.50 for a set of three. But surgical scissors cut through these tethers easily. Then Jaworski appealed to the Brookhaven administration that a MakerBot Replicator 2 Desktop 3D Printer could help solve his cable problem. He designed a tamper proof cable tether. Between the dense black PLA and thick wire, it costs $7.94. It holds all three cables, and surgical scissors can’t cut through it.
Vinny Garrison is the technology teacher and racing commissioner at A. MacArthur Barr Middle School, in Nanuet, NY. Over the course of seven weeks, each eighth grader will shape a footlong wood block into a car and make a set of wheels on a MakerBot Replicator Desktop 3D Printer. Students eager to challenge the all-time record craft wheels weighing as little as eight-tenths of a gram. (Stock wheels can weigh as much as five grams each.) Others create elaborate patterns worthy of a custom rim shop while learning engineering principles.
Leslie Perry at Whitby School in Greenwich, CT uses MakerBot® Replicator® Desktop 3D Printers in the school’s Design Technology classroom to spark an interest in 3D printing and design and teach problem solving. In this project, students learned 3D design to create their own boats and buildings for a fictional place called Whitby Harbor, and then brought their ideas to life.
Felix Olivieri and his wife, Sarah, operate Olivieri’s Arts, Crafts, & Coffee in Kingston, a Hudson River town north of New York City. They feature specialty paints and pencils, a coffee bar, and a MakerBot Replicator Mini Compact 3D Printer. The Replicator Mini is great for making store parts, engaging customers, and educating the public on 3D printing.
MakerBot® collaborated with design teams from Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia to create the Trellis Collection, a set of branded table accessories that customers can download from the MakerBot Digital Store. MakerBot Replicator® Desktop 3D Printers enabled the designers to rapidly prototype and explore many different creative approaches, iterating on their ideas with precision and speed.
Florida Polytechnic University uses a MakerBot Innovation Center to introduce its students, faculty, and the surrounding community to hands-on STEM learning and applied research through 3D printing. The MakerBot Innovation Center boasts more than 50 MakerBot Replicator 3D Printers, all controlled by the MakerBot Innovation Center Management Platform.
From the home, to the office, to the classroom, MakerBot and 3D printing are changing the way people innovate, create, and explore. Join us as we lead the next Industrial Revolution.
What if doctors could grow you a new windpipe from your own cartilage cells? A team of surgeons and scientists at the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research has grown cartilage on a scaffolding made from ordinary MakerBot PLA Filament. MakerBot provided the Feinstein Institute with a MakerBot Replicator 2X Experimental 3D Printer, which has two extruders. Lead researcher Todd Goldstein converted it into a low-cost bioprinter by replacing one extruder with a syringe that dispenses the chondrocyte-collagen “bio-ink.”
The Coolest Cooler, one of the most funded Kickstarter campaigns of all time, was prototyped with a MakerBot Replicator Desktop 3D Printer. Watch the story and find out what MakerBot can do to Kickstart your idea.
North Drinkware saved $20,000 by prototyping their Oregon Pint with MakerBot, and their Kickstarter campaign earned over $500,000.
Robert Welch Ltd. designers create 3D printed prototypes for the evaluation and refinement of new houseware products. Watch how they use MakerBot and Objet30 technologies to finalize their signature contemporary, classic designs.
UNIFEBE University in Santa Catarina, Brazil teamed up with Wishbox Technologies and MakerBot to establish the first Innovation Center in Brazil.
Take an inside look at the creation of the RAP (Alien Suit) using 3D printing with MakerBot & Legacy Effects.
Are you maker interested in testing your skills against other teams with access to cutting edge technology? Join MakerBot and the NYC maker community in this amazing cause, sign up for TOM:NYC today! For a better idea of how TOM harnesses makers and need-knowers to innovate new assistive technologies, check out the above video from the 2015 Bay Area Makeathon. TOM:NYC Makeathon will connect people with disabilities with teams of designers and engineers to create groundbreaking assistive technology devices.
Check out Falcon Robotics – a high school robotics team using 3D printing to reinvent STEM learning with their autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV).
Watch Local Motors as they prototype and build their self-driving shuttle Olli, all on MakerBot 3D printers.
3D printing essential jigs and fixtures in-house saves the MakerBot factory hundreds of thousands of dollars, and eliminates time spent communicating with outside suppliers. What can MakerBot do for your factory?