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 Maker Bot 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 Maker Bot is the fun, affordable, and inspiring way to go.
Get started with your own little factory today Set up your Maker Bot Replicator 2 and understand how it works Learn the basics and print 10 useful objects right away Make objects with sturdy yet biodegradable PLAGet 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 Sketch Up, Autodesk 123D, Open SCAD, 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 Maker Bot 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 (Maker Block) is a blogger, maker, and tinkerer who explore.
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