MakerBot

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MakerBot Industries, LLC

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legal form Limited Liability Company
founding January 2009
Seat New York City
Website www.makerbot.com

MakerBot (actually MakerBot Industries, LLC ) is a 3D printer and scanner manufacturer based in New York City . The company was founded in 2009 and is considered one of the leading representatives in its industry.

history

In 2004, the so-called RepRap project was brought into being through an essay by Adrian Bowyer in which he outlined the development of a free and inexpensive 3D printer. The RepRap Research Foundation emerged from the publication and was supposed to implement the plans as a non-profit organization . In addition to Bowyer, Zach Smith was also involved in it. Due to the high demand for RepRap's developments, they finally founded MakerBot Industries, LLC together with video blogger Bre Pettis in 2009 .

In September 2012 MakerBot opened its first retail store in New York City. Interested parties can purchase the company's products there and try them out on site. MakerBot became known to the general public through its cooperation with Nokia . In the course of the introduction of the Lumia 520 and Lumia 820 at the Mobile World Congress 2013 , Nokia and MakerBot started a project in which custom-fit protective covers for smartphones can be manufactured by themselves.

In June 2013 MakerBot was sold to Stratasys .

The beginnings and development of MakerBot are vividly illustrated in the Netflix documentary "Print the Legend" about the "3D printing revolution" - the expansion of the 3D printer market in the USA.

Products

MakerBot does not yet have any defined product or production lines; new models appear at irregular intervals.

Cupcake CNC

Cupcake CNC

The company's first product was the Cupcake CNC , which was presented in March 2009. He combined the ideas of the RepRap project with the aim of making the printer as affordable as possible. He could produce plastic parts up to a size of about 10 × 10 × 15 centimeters. The printer worked with acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS), “high density” polyethylene (HDPE) and polylactides (PLA). The printer was sold as a kit : The circuit boards were already soldered, the buyer only has to do minor soldering work in non-critical areas.

The CNC cupcake was selling faster than MakerBot could produce. In September 2009, more than 200 machines were already in use. The demand was so great that owners of the cupcake were asked by the manufacturer to produce individual parts for other 3D printers against payment.

Thing-O-Matic

Thing-O-Matic

As the successor to the Cupcake CNC, the Thing-O-Matic was presented in 2010 . Among other things , it contains a small conveyor belt so that automated series production was possible.

Replicator

Replicator

At the beginning of 2012, the replicator followed, which allowed the printing of much larger and two-colored objects. In September of the same year, the Replicator 2 was presented, which allows a higher resolution and prints with PLA as standard , which reduces energy consumption .

The earlier models were released as open source. Since there were 1: 1 copies of the first replicator, the replicator 2 was closed source. The company was heavily criticized for this from the FabLabs scene, because the missing construction plans make it harder to repair and maintain.

Digitizer

In March 2013, MakerBot presented its first 3D scanner at the South by Southwest (SXSW) technology conference in Texas . The model should make it possible to digitize any objects in such a way that they can be reproduced on a replicator. The market launch finally took place in August 2013, objects with a height of up to 20 centimeters can be scanned.

Web links

Commons : MakerBot  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Yvonne Ortmann: 3D printing for everyone: MakerBot opens offline store for 3D printers. In: t3n magazine . September 21, 2012, accessed March 15, 2013 .
  2. ↑ Customize It: Design And Print Your Own Nokia Phone Case! MakerBot, February 25, 2013, accessed March 15, 2013 .
  3. ↑ Moritz Stückler: 3D printer demo: Nokia and Makerbot print smartphone covers. (No longer available online.) In: t3n magazine . February 28, 2013, archived from the original on March 4, 2013 ; accessed on March 15, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / t3n.de
  4. ↑ Kara Swisher: MakerBot Sells to Stratasys for $ 403M - Plus $ 201M for Earn-Outs - as 3-D Printing Market Explodes. All things D, June 19, 2013, accessed June 20, 2013 .
  5. ↑ Print the Legend, documentation by Luis Lopez and J. Clay Tweel 2014. Accessed June 8, 2018 .
  6. ^ Adrian Covert: At Gizmodo Gallery 2009: MakerBot 3D Printer. In: Gizmodo . September 21, 2009, accessed March 13, 2013 .
  7. ↑ Cupcake CNC Deluxe Kit. MakerBot, archived from the original on August 8, 2010 ; accessed on March 13, 2013 .
  8. ↑ Priya Ganapat: 3-D Printers Make Manufacturing Accessible. In: Wired . November 8, 2009, accessed March 13, 2013 .
  9. ↑ Get paid to make parts for future MakerBots. (No longer available online.) MakerBot, August 6, 2009, archived from the original on November 15, 2010 ; accessed on March 13, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / blog.makerbot.com
  10. ↑ Alexander Zollondz: 3D printer: MakerBot Thing-O-Matic Kit. In: netzwelt . December 13, 2011, accessed March 15, 2013 .
  11. ↑ Christiane Rütten: New 3D printer MakerBot Replicator. In: heise online . January 11, 2012, accessed March 15, 2013 .
  12. ↑ Werner Pluta: Makerbot presents new 3D printer in its own shop. Golem , September 20, 2012, accessed September 20, 2012 .
  13. ↑ Let's try that again. MakerBot, September 24, 2012, accessed January 14, 2013 .
  14. ↑ Annika Demgen: MakerBot: New digitizer scans 3D objects. In: netzwelt . March 11, 2013, accessed March 15, 2013 .
  15. ↑ Jan-Hendrik Heinemann: 3D scanner for everyone: Makerbot announces “Digitizer”. (No longer available online.) In: t3n magazine. August 15, 2013, archived from the original on August 18, 2013 ; Retrieved August 15, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / t3n.de

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