MakerBot Thingiverse reached a landmark last week with one million uploads and two hundred million downloads on its platform.
KUKA, the Chinese-German industrial manufacturing company, creates specialist robotics by using 3D printing technologies. In collaboration with MakerBot 3D printers, KUKA develops robotic arms which are used across a variety of industries.
MakerBot has started shipping the MakerBot Method, a performance 3D printer that integrates industrial-grade features into a desktop-sized machine. Review the features and specs here.
Exclusive look at Thingiverse trends over a 30 day period, with the most popular models and software, plus geographical and demographic data.
eBayer just3dprint has taken over 2,000 files from Thingiverse and sells them for profit, disregarding Creative Commons licenses for non-commercial use.
Prototyped on a Makerbot 3D printer, Skarp laser razor wanted to revolutionize shaving. Now the project got suspended at Kickstarter.
MakerBot’s Replicator Mini aims at consumers and seems to live up to the expectations. At our first hands-on review, it shows advantages and disadvantages.
Walter Hsiao published his citrus reamer in January 2013 - and it’s in the Top-10-Lists of Thingiverse ever since.
With the current layoffs at Makerbot and the demise of smaller companies, it may seem an odd timing, but market researchers are very confident: 3D printing will be bigger than the internet.
It is now more imperative than ever that schools educate their students about the emerging digital fabrication technologies, especially those of the "additive kind" (i.e. 3D printing) that are going to fundamentally change the world and the way we manufacture our goods.
The 3D printer manufacturer Makerbot has recently unveiled Makerbot Tough, a filament that is designed for 3D printing functional prototypes. This new material seems to be an upgrade over ABS, offering twice the impact strength and reduced warping.
A MakerBot employee reverse engineered a micro drone, using 3D printing to create a new outer shell for the motors, electronic boards and battery.
A member of the Facebook group 3D Printing has exposed a vulnerability in the design of Thingiverse that allows commenters on Things' pages to embed cryptocurrency miners. Now fixed, the malicious comments hijacked vulnerable computers and used them to mine for digital currency.
Learn how Felipe Castañeda, MakerBot Industrial Designer, used CAD and 3D printing to develop his very own custom bike saddle.
Montclair Public Schools in New Jersey paired up with MakerBot to provide schools and students from second grade to college with 3D printers.
The new MakerBot Labs Experimental Extruder opens up the MakerBot Replicator+ 3D printer to third party filaments and experimental settings.
Local Motors is an automotive company which developed a talking, autonomous bus with help from MakerBot desktop 3D printers.
MakerBot announces My MakerBot cloud-based platform and the MakerBot Educators Guidebook to improve student access to 3D printing.
The robotics team at Carl Hayden High School -- otherwise known as Falcon Robotics -- are using 3D printing to make super awesome robot subs.