Like a pit crew, Mishimoto, the leading manufacturer in aftermarket performance cooling products is always pushing to make their process faster and more efficient. “It’s all about speed to market,” says Jeremy Godin, Mishimoto’s VP of product. See how Mishimoto gets its Ecoboost Intercooler and other products to market faster by using a MakerBot Replicator Z18.
For a course at the Pratt Institute School of Architecture, Leland Jobson and Andrew Reitz designed an artificial iceberg that is also a floating resort. They used a MakerBot Replicator Desktop 3D Printer to make a model of vaulted chambers of ice. “The way me and Andrew were able to be more confident in pursuing this project was having a way to build it,” said Jobson. The MakerBot Replicator in the school’s Digital Futures office also helped them to develop the concept. 3D printed study models, they said, help them see their ideas more objectively than on a computer…
Chris Milnes had never 3D printed anything when he invented an iPhone accessory he desperately needed. While the Square credit card reader makes his life easier as a business owner, it tends to spin and twist during use. His simple design, the Square Helper, connects the Square unit to an iPhone or iPad and prevents it from twisting, saving the merchant time and hassle. With his MakerBot Replicator 2 Desktop 3D Printer, Chris has a factory on his desk for making high-resolution, durable units. Even better, the Square Helper accessory is selling for a big profit, without any need for…
When Richard Van As, a woodworker in South Africa, decided to make a set of mechanical fingers, it wasn’t just for fun. He’d lost four of the fingers on his right hand in an unfortunate work accident. For a carpenter, a disabled hand is a big professional risk, so Richard decided on the day of the incident that he would use the tools available to him to remedy his situation. Watch the inspiring video above to hear how Richard’s project, Robohand, is changing lives with patience, spirit, and a MakerBot Replicator 2.
MakerBot is proud to support Intuitive Motion Inc., a start-up company based in Hermosa Beach, California, that used a MakerBot desktop 3D printer to help create the ZBoard: the weight-sensing electric skateboard.
Does mankind’s destiny lie in the stars? Artist Carrie Mae Rose thinks so. Her show, “Light As a Feather” at New York City’s Eyebeam Gallery, exhibited Carrie Mae’s fashion concepts for space-dwelling humans of the future. Carrie Mae wanted to use a basic 3D shape as a building block for her designs, and ended up 3D printing thousands of tetrahedrons to bring her ideas to life. She was able to easily produce shapes of different size and thickness on a MakerBot® Replicator® 2 Desktop 3D Printer.
Sebastian Errazuriz, a Chilean artist who works in Brooklyn, NY, designed and made “12 Shoes for 12 Lovers” on a MakerBot Replicator 2X Experimental 3D Printer. Errazuriz talks about his design process and what 3D printing offers to future generations of artists and designers.
Kisi is a startup that turns your smartphone into a keycard and lets you send keys over email with more security and flexibility than, say, leaving a spare key under the flower pot. Kisi began in Munich, Germany is now based in Brooklyn, NY. Kisi uses a MakerBot Replicator 2 Desktop 3D Printer to prototype its hardware rapidly along with its software. Kisi also produces the housing for its devices on a MakerBot Replicator 2 Desktop 3D Printer. 3D printing allows Kisi to continue improving their devices based on real-world feedback from customers.
W Scott Allen, associate architect and designer at the New York office of the global architecture firm Perkins+Will, discusses how rapid prototyping on a MakerBot Replicator 2 Desktop 3D Printer profoundly changes an architect’s creative process. The MakerBot Replicator 2 “frees us up to test more ideas for clients and come at a nicer solution in the same timeframe,” says Allen. “You can almost print at the same speed that you can draw.”
Brooklyn designer Francis Bitonti talks about his Bristle Dress, made on a MakerBot Replicator 2 Desktop 3D Printer. MakerBot goes behind the scenes at the photo session where model Ica Paru wore the Bristle Dress for Bitonti for the first time.
From his 100-square-foot home office, product designer Bill Phelps brought more than a dozen products to market in a year for an $80 million consumer-product-goods company. Then Phelps joined Ringblingz, a startup that makes rings that allow teenagers to put their phones away yet know when they have an important message. During a three-month residency at the R/GA Connected Devices Accelerator powered by Techstars, Phelps was able to work through hundreds of designs using a MakerBot Replicator 2 Desktop 3D Printer. Ringblingz launched at SXSW last month, and Wearables Week named them Best Newcomer. Phelps says there’s no…
Ian Bernstein, cofounder and CTO of connected toy company Orbotix, created the breakthrough prototype of Ollie, a remote control vehicle, on a MakerBot Replicator 2 Desktop 3D Printer. “When we started Orbotix, I was building all the Sphero prototypes with paper clips and brass and stuff like that, and you can only go so far,” Bernstein said. “Having the MakerBot and being able to make more advanced parts, we’re doing bigger and better things now.”
Once GE FirstBuild added MakerBot® Replicator® 3D Printers to their toolkit, they were able to prototype and test the next generation of smart home appliances in real time. In the words of the company, “a prototype is worth a thousand meetings.” Learn how GE FirstBuild saves time and encourages innovation with the help of MakerBot Replicators.
Being able to prototype in real-time can save you and your business time and money. Learn how company’s like Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia are using MakerBot Replicator 3D Printers to move forward.
Experience better, faster ways to develop and refine your ideas with new 3D printing solutions from MakerBot.
Canary is a complete security system in a single device. Discover how the Canary team develops and refines using connected 3D printing solutions from MakerBot.
Watch and learn how one industrial designer can go from from idea, to sketch, to CAD, to 3D printing – all in a weekend. This story is part of MakerBot’s series of design studies, exploring iterative design and the relationship between designers and their tools.
These personalized iPhone cases, designed by Danny Tasmakis were 3D printed on an Objet Connex multi-material 3D printer and feature moving interlocking gear wheels! This is the only 3D printer of its kind in the world able to create complex assemblies made of moving parts – each of which is printed in a different material. In this video, you see a small selection from among the total Stratasys range of 107 materials, including transparent, black, transparent with patterned dots and grid lines, white and various composite grey/blue shades.
3D printers can be used to create virtually any object directly from a computer-aided design. This video shows how a Stratasys Objet Connex 3D printer can produce 6 different sizes of adjustable wrenches – from 5 cm to 50 cm – all in one print run. All the wrenches contain fully-movable parts and require no assembly after printing. The wrenches are made of Digital ABS material which has the strength of ABS-grade engineering plastics.