MakerBot: The 3D Printing Robot


Rocketboom Tech correspondent Ellie Rountree talks to Bre Pettis, and Zach Hoeken about their new company, MakerBot Industries (www.makerbot.com), building open source robot kits that allow you to do rapid prototyping and 3D Printing at home. Music Can Opener by The Discoghosts www.upitup.com For an extra piece of fun from this shoot, go watch Ellie and the Flaming Bunny! www.youtube.com


25 Responses to “MakerBot: The 3D Printing Robot”

  • Aerach89:

    Fascinating invention.

  • jauniena666:

    NURDSSSSSSSSS

  • robbieaoa:

    @thatguru877 ohhh $16.00 is not a lot. and… there is no 16,00$

  • blackfreddie223:

    nice bewbs ^.^

  • Pandemoniumwise:

    The girl is smokin hot

  • RevolverLover101:

    @thatguru877 no way!!!

  • thatguru877:

    @madvideogamer They also usually cost upwards of 16,00$ dollars.

  • Gtype:

    “Where did the inspiration come from?” I can tell you: Solid Works.

  • TheBrothersCompound:

    what does the maker bot use to copy?

  • yuginar:

    thats cool and all but can it print text on paper ?

  • madvideogamer:

    Pfft, they already have things like this already. They use them to make bases for toys mostly.

  • iani103:

    @dennisd7 I fell that if i get it… I’LL BE RICH.
    On word… eBay

  • lpfan540:

    actually it really isnt bad for a first draft so to speak and it can be improved on and it will in the next 10 years it will be better and in 20 or 30 you will think this makes life easier one application this has is school and scale models better blue prints, art, movie applications

  • cheesecoffy:

    =Stupidest thing ive ever heard. Dumbest idea ever

  • OMFGWTFBBQLAWLZ:

    Liar, the internet was invented by Al Gore everyone knows that.

  • martincprice:

    I don’t want to get into text comment tennis, but I didn’t wish to knock the US as its a great country. Unfortunately you have done it again. Check out Wiki for the following . Laser – Alfred Kastler (Nobel prize 1966). Revolver & Machine Gun – James Puckle (1718). Rubber – Francois Fresneau (1755). Radio is generally attributed to Marconi (Nobel Prize 1909). Motorcycle – Michaux Perrraux (1868) or possibly Daimler. Elevator – Ivan Kulibin (1793). Tesla was Serbian.

  • sensoryhouse:

    Oh yeah, besides the photocopier, you forgot the personal computer, laptop, cell phone, email, text messaging, windows, mac os, the laser, google, youtube, facebook, landing on the moon, breaking the sound barrier, iPod, Multi touch, cotton gin, refrigeration, the revolver, machine gun, the skyscraper, elevator, Disneyland, Vegas, baseball, basketball, rubber, modern oil well, motorcycle, chewing gum, QWERTY, blue jeans, the radio, Tesla coil, zipper, YOUR FAT MOM and the list goes on and on!!

  • nicholias1:

    The assembly line wasn’t “invented” by Ford OR America, examples of it date way back to the making of the Terracotta Army, the venetian army also used a form of assembly line and if I’m not mistaken the first linear and continuous assembly line remains at Portsmouth Dockyard.

  • theconster2:

    World Wide Web is basically the modern internet.

  • telesniper2:

    No, that was the world wide web.

  • caesiume:

    Hmm, you’re partially right. Technically, the Americans did create the internet, but it was Berners-lee that created the World Wide Web and it’s associated protocols.

  • theconster2:

    Actually the internet was invented by Tim Berners-Lee. A British man.

  • Stevetronics:

    Really? OK. Then let me rattle off some of the things we have invented: Lightbulb, assembly line, aircraft, the nuclear reactor, the integrated circuit, the internet, google, anesthesia, (And your little lightbulb plug is just wrong.) I can continue if you like: the modern bullet, the atomic bomb (not good.) and the first militarily successful jet aircraft. Just a few of the things that you wouldn’t have without “us Americans”

  • liamtheawesome1:

    ohhhhhhhhhhhhh.

  • Klaymator14:

    OOOOOHHHHHHHH

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