Everything about MakerBot
American manufacturer of 3D printers
MakerBot Industries, LLC was an American desktop 3D printer manufacturer company headquartered in New York City. It was founded in January 2009 by Bre Pettis, Adam Mayer, and Zach "Hoeken" Smith to build on the early progress of the RepRap Project. It was acquired by Stratasys in June 2013. As of April 2016, MakerBot had sold over 100,000 desktop 3D printers worldwide. Between 2009 and 2019, the company released 7 generations of 3D printers, ending with the METHOD and METHOD X. It was at one point the leader of the desktop market with an important presence in the media, but its market share declined over the late 2010s. MakerBot also founded and operated Thingiverse, the largest online 3D printing community and file repository. In August 2022, the company completed a merger with its long-time competitor Ultimaker. The combined company is known as UltiMaker, but retains the MakerBot name for its Sketch line of education-focused 3D printers. Wikipedia →
🧠Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: MakerBotA 5-minute orientation
- Pick up a classic book: Getting Started With MakerbotThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Evaluation of dimensional accuracy and material properties of the MakerBot 3D desktop printerCited 151 times
- Go sideways: ThingiverseA closely related topic
- Go sideways: UltimakerA closely related topic
đź“– Definitions
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Evaluation of dimensional accuracy and material properties of the MakerBot 3D desktop printer
The complementarity of openness: How MakerBot leveraged Thingiverse in 3D printing
Reduction of Process Induced Porosity for Ultrafuse 316L through Parameter Optimization of Creality Ender 3 V2 and Makerbot Method X
Proprietary Benefits from Open Communities: How MakerBot Leveraged Thingiverse in 3D Printing
đź“š Books worth reading
Getting Started With MakerbotBre Pettis · 2012
3D Printing with Autodesk 123D, Tinkercad, and MakerBotLydia Sloan Cline · 2014
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
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