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Rick Pollack · Would you like to be able to do this?
July 14th, 2009
The challenge was to design and build a set of salt and pepper shakers in one day. Good Stuff!
See the MakerBot desktop $750 3d printer in action, what a hackerspace is like, a glimpse of desktop rapid development and how fun it all is…
Last 5 posts by Rick Pollack
- Open Fabrication - Part III - November 12th, 2009
- Open Source Digital Fabrication - Part II - August 11th, 2009
- The Desktop Manufacturing Revolution (Fast Company) - July 15th, 2009
- Open Source Digital Fabrication - July 9th, 2009
- WTF??? - December 11th, 2008
July 17th, 2009 at 3:52 pm
That was one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen… seriously. I haven’t had the time to check out what fab labs are all about, but this definitely puts it into perspective. What program did they use to create the “blueprint” for the shakers?
July 19th, 2009 at 10:02 am
Agreed Mike. I should have TWO MakerBots operational in the near future and I have five pounds of ABS plastic (same as lego bricks) to build with. So, get up to speed on Sketch-up, Alias, Rhino, AutoCAD, Blender, or an equivalent and get some designs together…
July 20th, 2009 at 6:47 pm
Dare I ask… are any of those programs Mac compatible? (not that I have copious amounts of time to learn yet another program
July 20th, 2009 at 8:43 pm
Mike – yes, plenty of apps available for Mac.