The Printer of The Future

February 1st, 2012 / Comments (2)

There's a new printer on the market that's making news everywhere. It's called MakerBot and it's the first consumer grade 3D printer. This means you can print toys/prototypes/stuff instead of having it shipped to you from some factor in China. This won't come as a surprise to followers of CES but we have something that will.

MakerBot founder Zach "Hoeken" Smith is an Iowa native! He grew up in Solon, IA before moving to Brooklyn to set up shop (we're sure college happened somewhere in there). Add his name to the list of Iowans helping shape the future.

MakerBot is currently selling two models the single-color "Thing-O-Matic" and the dual-color (and larger) Replicator. Check out the video below and go order one of you could use it in your shop. We could see 8/7 Central doing cool things with this.

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We actually have one already, just haven't had a ton of time to make use of it...

http://eightsevencentral.com/maker-bot/
http://eightsevencentral.com/makerbot-objectified-and-trostels-dish/

87 Central
February 8th, 2012, 4:05pm

We should have known. Let us know when you start pumping out toys on the regular.

The Des Moines ...
February 8th, 2012, 4:14pm

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