MADE IN MY BACKYARD(overview)Shintaro Kiba71175212Faculty of Environment and Information

Timeline

2007

Bre Pettis meets with Zach, who is making RepRap in NYCResistor

Make McWire RepStrap with Zach and other crew(Marius, Phillip, and Red) by sacrificing their lives

Fail to even print out swizzle stick in Roboexotica and receive ‘lime award’

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2008

The machine Bre left in Vienna was fixed by Maruis and Phillip, and the machine succeeds in printing out shot glass this time

Creates a clubhouse starting with 9 members, and buys a laser cutter together

Starts Thingiverse with Zach, which people can share design online

Zach gets Darwin(prototype of RepRap) and tries to fix it

After 25th Chaos Communication Congress, Bre and Zach decides to start up a company

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2009

The two plus a veteran engineer Adam starts up a company called MakerBot Industries, which is a company that makes 3D printers and sells it.

Showed 3D printer to the world 1st time in SXSW festival; all of them were sold

People who bought MakerBot starts to make things, sharing their ideas via Thingiverse

Makerbot CupcakeCNC

Thingiverse

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2010

Constantly updating software and hardware for Makerbot, the company makes Thing-O-Matic, which is a 3D printer with new way of moving the printing bed

 2011

There are 2500 Makerbot around the world and everyone has not stopped their hand to “make”

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What they are trying to make: users

Users of Makerbot and Thingiverse are highly-motivated, active, and not afraid to confront problems which comes along with new technology

They are not just trying to make products which solves their everyday problem, but they are also willing to commit to the whole community, which includes making/fixing 3D printer by themselves

What they are trying to make:

MakerBot IndustriesTheir first and constant goal is to make an ‘affordable’ 3D printer; they made a 3D printer with a restriction (but does not restrict their mind and ideas) of tools (laser cutter, hand, and off-the-shelf parts)

Along with Thingiverse, they made Makerbot an open source―they wanted 3D Printer to truly become users’

The whole environment they created is for users to not just be a bystander; 3D printer is not a black box and Thingiverse is not a museum

Example of community updating each other

$25 Mouse Trap (one day, eight designs)

Charles Pax (modified DXF file so that electronics can fit in the machine, also made MakerBot Automated Build Platform)

Skimbai created a modular cathedral under a restriction of maximum print size being 100x100x120

Of course, MakerBot Industries are working to update software and hardware