Getting Started with Makerbot: A Hands-On Introduction to Affordable 3D Printing

Bre Pettis, Anna France, Jay Shergill

$15.99

Publication Date: February 5th, 2013

Publisher:

Make Community, LLC

ISBN:

9781449338657

Pages:

226

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Description

Ready to join the personal fabrication movement? This hands-on book shows you how to make a wide variety of physical objects with the amazing MakerBot 3D printer.

It's handy when you need a replacement for something lost, broken, or no longer made--like a knob on your stove. You can make things instead of buying them, or solve problems with inventions of your own. The possibilities are endless, and MakerBot is the fun, affordable, and inspiring way to go. Get started with your own little factory today

Set up your MakerBot Replicator 2 and understand how it works
Learn the basics and print 10 useful objects right away
Make objects with sturdy yet biodegradable PLA
Get examples of real-world problem solving, from ceiling hooks to hermit crab shells
Choose from thousands of free designs on Thingiverse.com--and share your own
Repurpose disposable products by making them part of your design
Design your own 3D objects, using SketchUp, Autodesk 123D, OpenSCAD, and other tools
Use 3D scanning technology to replicate real objects around you

About the Author

Bre Pettis is a founder of Makerbot, a company that produces robots that make things. Bre is also a founder of NYCResistor, a hacker collective in Brooklyn. Besides being a TV host and Video Podcast producer, he's created new media for Etsy.com, hosted Make: Magazine's Weekend Projects podcast, and has been a schoolteacher, artist, and puppeteer. Bre is passionate about invention, innovation, and all things DIY.Anna Kaziunas France is the Digital Fabrication Editor of Maker Media and the Dean of Students for the Fab Academy program. Formerly she taught the "How to Make (Almost) Anything" rapid prototyping course in digital fabrication at the Providence Fab Academy (at AS220). She is also the co-author of Getting Started with MakerBot and she compiled the Make: 3D Printing book. She loves Providence, Rhode Island and is in the process of scanning and printing it.Jay Shergill (MakerBlock) is a blogger, maker, and tinkerer who explores 3D printing and design. He's shared his 3D printing knowledge on his own blog, and also posts regularly on the MakerBot blog.