The MakerBot Replicator: your home 3D printer

The Replicator from the Company MakerBot is one the most affordable 3D printer on the market, and the first one I have seen targeting Hipsters instead of Tech Nerds. Will it take off, and become commodity, as paper printer did?MakerBot 3D printer

Read our older post about 3D printing: Thingiverse

Thinginverse: Free blueprints for your 3D printers

Hacking is about doing it yourself. But you don’t have to reinvent everything or to stack tons of scrap anymore.

You can actually  order a lot of things, laser cut, 3D printed and robot painted. All you need are the blueprints. And many of them are at theThingiverse, the modern version of those magazines my grandma used for sewing clothes.

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