3D Printed MakerBot

posted Jun 5th 2010 8:00am by
filed under: cnc hacks, news

[Webca] has made a 3D printed MakerBot with his MakerBot. Using five pounds of plastic, the design replaces all of the plywood used to create a regular MakerBot. This complements the existing designs for the 3D printed extruders, dinos, and other parts already on Thingiverse. An interesting mile marker in the history of 3D printing. We might make one after we make a Mendel and tons of Hack a Day Badges. We also look forward to improvements people will contribute to the design such as using less plastic or a parameterized design to make a really big (or small) MakerBot.



12 Responses to 3D Printed MakerBot

  • crazy Bitch says:
    June 5, 2010 at 9:11 am

    yeeeah well done

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  • nave.notnilc says:
    June 5, 2010 at 10:26 am

    ugly, inefficient, and kinda silly, but a neat shot at the reprap ideal.

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  • iPodder says:
    June 5, 2010 at 12:35 pm

    Yo dawg…

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  • greyarea says:
    June 5, 2010 at 2:34 pm

    Very cool as a proof of concept, but as the Makerbot was designed specifically to be made with a laser cutter it will be much more efficient to print a mendel (which was designed specifically to be printed).

    Also, does it actually print?

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  • Corwin says:
    June 5, 2010 at 4:05 pm

    It looks like you could cut the plastic for the printed makerbot way down by making the solid fill areas that don’t have connections into latticeworks.

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  • Did that table just move? - Hack a Day says:
    June 7, 2010 at 12:02 pm

    [...] table and chair that can move around by themselves? What’s next, suicide booths, self-replicating robots, and Star Trek styled tablet computers? It seems that [Adam Lassy] is moving in that direction. He [...]

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  • Mikey says:
    June 7, 2010 at 4:52 pm

    People seem to be commenting in the wrong threads an aweful lot today…

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  • Most useless machine loses carbon footprint - Hack a Day says:
    June 16, 2010 at 11:01 am

    [...] The video above shows the inner workings and the design plans are for sale. We’d love to print out the parts or perhaps just laser-cut them from wood like the legs of this spider [...]

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  • Recyclebot digests milk jugs to feed MakerBot - Hack a Day says:
    August 5, 2010 at 8:03 am

    [...] that recycles old milk jugs, extruding an HDPE plastic filament that can then be fed into a MakerBot for 3D [...]

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  • Myhackz says:
    October 30, 2010 at 11:25 am

    [...] that recycles old milk jugs, extruding an HDPE plastic filament that can then be fed into a MakerBot for 3D [...]

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  • The Twelve Days of… self-replicating - Hack a Day says:
    December 8, 2010 at 11:42 am

    [...] some have been altered to include a holiday theme, and all of them have been optimized to fit on a Makerbot build [...]

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  • The Twelve Days of… self-replicating « Black Hat Security says:
    December 9, 2010 at 9:41 am

    [...] some have been altered to include a holiday theme, and all of them have been optimized to fit on a Makerbot build [...]

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