MakerBot Thingiverse
Let’s Kill Thingiverse?
If you are a 3D printer operator you probably have noticed that Thingiverse sucks at the moment. After being asked to write about it I decided to grab the bull…
MakerBot Updates Terms of Use to Cover New Thingiverse Developer Portal
A few weeks ago, Thingiverse reached out to developers with their new Thingiverse Developer Portal. Along with a series of new apps, the portal provides even more opportunities for interaction with a site…
3D Print Your Own Syfy Originals: New Partnership with Thingiverse Among Syfy’s Expanding Tech Opportunities
We all have dreams. Shockingly, I didn’t spend my childhood dreaming of running a 3D printing news site; the technology didn’t exist yet when I was born. Instead, I spent the…
Thingiverse Celebrates One Million Uploads, Offers Contest to Win 3D Printed Favorites
Thingiverse has become the thing to turn to for the making of…millions of things, literally. With yes, a staggering one million uploads being counted now– and more than 200 million…
3DJack, A 3D Printed Version of the Perennial Halloween Favorite
Every Halloween there’s a post-holiday period of at least a couple of weeks in which you can observe the process of decay the Jack-O-Lantern on your front porch goes through before…
3D Printed Custom Game Boy Makes Personal Gaming Device Even More Personal
There’s never been a better time to be a kid–or a kid at heart–than today. The ongoing tech explosion of ideas and innovation has had a most empowering impact on…
3D Printed Gyroman Resurrects Unique Toy Design From the Early 80’s — New Details
In 1981, Dr. John Jameson created a unique walking toy which made use of a metal flywheel and pivoting legs. That combination created forward motion, and the design won him…
3D Printed Geiger Counter is Integral to its Creator’s Work
Maker Conrad Farnsworth’s recent contribution to MakerBot’s Thingiverse is pretty unusual as projects go. In fact, it’s doubtful that there is widespread demand for Farnsworth’s 3D-printed Geiger counter, but the…
MakerBot Replicator Desktop 3D Printer 5th Gen is Awarded a Prestigious Red Dot Award
MakerBot has announced that the Fifth Generation MakerBot Replicator Desktop 3D Printer has been awarded the Red Dot Award: Product Design 2015. The Red Dot Design Award is an international…
This Incredible Steampunk Machine Features 3D Printed Pixels
New York City-based electrical engineer, Chris Fenton, helps design supercomputers to pay the bills. When it comes to fun, however, this imaginative maker’s forays into steampunk machines keep him both…
Florida Maker Designs Easy-Access 3D-Printed Tool WristBand
You may not find a bigger fan of 3D design and printing than Floridian Fernando Sosa. The Orlando-based designer and entrepreneur seems to wear multiple hats (we wonder if they’re…
Fruit and Vegetable Cutter is 3D Printed to Take On An Old Kitchen Standby
Among the multitude of praises we sing to the 3D printer, we can’t say enough about its capacity to facilitate almost instant gratification. With its capacity for, at the least,…
MakerBot’s Thingiverse & FirstBuild Countertop Challenge: 3D Print a More Efficient Kitchen
Your home 3D printer just added another entry to its resume: It’s your newest kitchen appliance. At least, it can be if you take MakerBot’s Thingiverse, and FirstBuild up on…
Raspberry Pi & “Adventure Time” Come Together in Maker’s Version of Game Console Character, BMO
What do you get when you combine a Raspberry Pi with “Adventure Time”? Nope. The answer to our query is definitely not, “A mess that probably won’t clean up very…
1950s Philco Predicta TV Gets a 3D Printed Update and a Better Picture
Retro electronics are great but you often sacrifice quality for aesthetics. When Instructables and Thingiverse contributor Jesse Demers, aka “piratetv/piratetv1,” set his sights on a Philco Predicta, possibly the coolest…
3D Printed Trumpet Looks Great But Needs Some Fine-Tuning
One of the major benefits of putting something out there in the maker universe is the support you engender almost immediately. You suddenly find yourself on a team of comparably…
MakerBot Launches Thingiverse Groups, Bringing the Community of 3D Designers Together
MakerBot is a name synonymous with desktop 3D printing. Their FDM/FFF based 3D printers are ranked among the highest available on the market, and they have a community of users…
3D Print Your Own Filament Counter and Stay On Top of Future Print Jobs
If you have any experience with 3D printing, you know that a spool of filament can yield a good deal. Thanks to our friends at MakerBot, we can give you…
Winners of MakerBot’s Ghostly Vinyl Challenge Announced
Ann Arbor, Michigan-based record label and design house Ghostly International issued a call for entries on Thingiverse last fall that they hoped would inspire 3D enthusiasts to come up with some creative…
3D Printed Tunnel for a California Family’s Snowy Holiday Train Set
3D printing may soon make the time-honored craft technique, paper mache, obsolete. One Thingiverse contributor decided to forgo the mess and fuss of paper mache for the no-waste efficiency of…
3D Printed “Robotica” — Cyborg Articulated Doll by Spanish Artist Sonia Verdú
Spanish sculptor Sonia Verdú tried her hand at creating 3D printed, articulated dolls in what we’d call the “fantasy” genre with and the results were not disappointing. In particular, her…
3D Print Your Own Mini Sandwich Maker
Parents of small children should appreciate this new, 3D printable gadget: It’s a mini sandwich maker, designed by a maker known on MakerBot Thingiverse as “rr2s,” also known as Rudy…
