[p2p-research] Fwd: Make a robot that makes things at Ponoko dot com

Thu Apr 1 10:09:15 CEST 2010

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From: Derek Elley | Ponoko <derek.elley at ponoko.com>
Date: Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 4:39 AM
Subject: Make a robot that makes things at Ponoko dot com
To: Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>

Hi Michel,

I thought your audience would love this news ...

We've just formed a cool relationship with MakerBot so the 'creative class'
can:

- design and make their own custom desktop 3D printers; and

- 3D print at the world's lowest cost per print.

Derek

*Make a robot that makes things at Ponoko dot com*

Design and make your own desktop 3D printer:

·       Download the free MakerBot case designs, customize and click to
make;

·       Select a MakerBot robotics kit;

·       Make it yourself.

In a new twist on Ponoko’s popular personal factory concept, creators can
now use the world’s easiest making system to design and make their own
desktop factory.

MakerBot Industries – makers of open source 3D printers – has opened a
showroom at Ponoko dot com enabling creators to design and make their own
custom desktop 3D printers.

The MakerBot CupCake printer turns digital 3D designs into almost anything
up to
4" x 4" x 6" in size from ABS plastic. And creators can now visit MakerBot’s
Ponoko showroom, download the CupCake case design files (for free),
customize them to suit a specific application or aesthetic, and click to
make them from a wide selection of materials.

Visitors to MakerBot’s Ponoko showroom can also select the CupCake robotics
kit needed to complete the assembly of their 3D printer. Kits include
absolutely everything required to get started in the personal fabrication
revolution, right down to the tweezers.

David ten Have, Ponoko’s CEO, says offering people the ability to design and
make their own desktop 3D printers is the best way for Ponoko to approach
the 3D printing market at this early stage.

“3D printing is very cool, and we want to make it available to our community
at the lowest cost per print,” he says. “Together with MakerBot, people can
design and make their own desktop 3D printers, and 3D print endlessly for
just a few dollars. So we’re excited to see sexy new designs of the MakerBot
printer sitting on people’s desktops, and lots more 3D printing projects.”

This development builds on Ponoko’s vision of distributed fabrication, where
downloadable digital product designs (rather than the products themselves)
are transported around the world to be made locally. In this case, on your
desktop 3D printer.

MakerBot’s Bre Pettis says “it’s easy for folks to download the MakerBot
case files, modify them if they want and get them made by Ponoko. Want to
get your MakerBot made out of bamboo or get a custom body? Ponoko can handle
it.” Being a staunch open source company, Bre also notes “if you make and
distribute any changes, you are required to publish your changes so the
community can see the innovations you’ve made.”

“Digital making technologies, like the MakerBot, are enabling a precise,
more intricate form of DIY,” says David. “We call it the ‘Make it yourself’
(MIY) movement. Ponoko makes it easy for you to download customizable
product design files, select materials including the robotics kits, and
click to make your own custom desktop 3D printer.

ENDS

Ponoko
 Derek Elley
+1 415 335 4471 or +64 21 88 66 81
derek.elley at ponoko.com

MakerBot Industries
 Bre Pettis
bre at makerbot.com

About Ponoko
Ponoko, the world’s easiest making system, is an online marketplace for
everyone to make real things. It’s where creators, digital fabricators,
materials suppliers and buyers meet to make almost anything. More than
40,000 user-generated designs have been instantly priced online, made and
delivered since Ponoko was selected to launch at TechCrunch40 in 2007.
Ponoko has reinvented how goods are designed, made and distributed leading
to profiles in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, BBC News,
Financial Times, The Globe & Mail, Inc. magazine, WIRED magazine, The
International Design Magazine and more. (www.ponoko.com).
* *
*About MakerBot Industries*
*MakerBot Industries brings the future to your desktop. MakerBot is leading
the personal manufacturing revolution with the Cupcake CNC – the most
affordable 3D printer in the world. It’s your own little factory, and it can
print almost anything you can imagine. The company was founded in 2009 on
hardcore open source principles, and our machines are engineered to be
hacked straight out of the box. MakerBot Operators share their digital
designs on Thingiverse, a digital design community where anyone can share
and download 3D designs, for free. MakerBot Industries was recently named as
one of the top 20 startups in NYC, and has been featured in Wired, Make:
Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, IEEE Spectrum, CNN, Financial Times, NPR,
the Economist and others. (www.makerbot.com).*

*Links*
To design and make your own custom 3D printer, start with the free
downloadable designs here:
http://www.ponoko.com/showroom/MakerBot/cupcake-cnc-chassis-designs--4246

Derek Elley
*NZ  *  +64 (021) 88 66 81
*USA  *+1 (415) 335 4471

*Ponoko* – the world's easiest making system
.................................................................................
*NZ  *  +64 (04) 473 0031
*USA  *+1 (415) 230 0255

www.ponoko.com

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