I am drooling over The MakerBot Replicator, a personal 3D printer for your home. The thought of printing 3D makes my head explode.
I met Bre Pettis, co-founder of Makerbot, at a playground on saturday. Love the fact that I recognized him from these videos. Yay for Brooklyn!
Bre rocks! As does the MakerBot Replicator =) If you haven’t already bought one, you can enter to win one. We’re running a contest with MakerBot…winner gets the Replicator! http://dev.tinkercad.com/blog/2012/3/19/design-a-chess-set-win-a-makerbot.html
Mar 19th, 2012 / 11:43 am
Yeah, there’s a major revolution coming once these and fully operational computer-controlled milling machines become reasonable household items.
Not quite Star Trek’s replicators, but it’s not 300 years from now, either.
Mar 22nd, 2012 / 1:53 pm
The main advantage to the milling machines, btw, is that they work on something other than plastics. When you can grab a CAM instruction set for making all the parts for a bicycle, buy the frame and build all the rest yourself, that’s going to be pretty interesting.
Not everyone is mechanically apt, but enough are that it’s going to produce a new generation of craftsmen that has gone by the wayside.
Mar 22nd, 2012 / 1:56 pm
I just read an interesting article that speaks to your point, Johann. http://www.investorplace.com/2012/03/is-3d-printing-approaching-its-inkjet-moment-hpq-caj/ We’re seeing this all over again!
Mar 22nd, 2012 / 1:59 pm