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Kitty Chess
Kitten Chess Set by IWorkInPixels First, you can never have too many chess sets. Second, a kitty cat themed chess set will never go to waste. You can play with it as a bunch of little kittens – or...
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A Matter of Scales: How Much Can You Print with a Single 1kg Spool?
While we have been hard at work getting our MakerBot Replicators assembled and packed for our imminent shipping launch, several of us have been putting the early prototype Replicators in the office to...
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Win A Replicator: Only 11 Days Left To Enter!
In case you missed the announcement on Monday, MakerBot and Tinkercad have teamed up to offer the chance to win a MakerBot Replicator! Create your own chess set in Tinkercad — like the one above from...
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TinkerCAD Chess Set Challenge: It’s Still Anyone’s Game!
Thingiverse and Tinkercad.com have been exploding with awesome this week. The source? Some of the wildest, wackiest, most wonderful chess sets we’ve ever seen. Bonbons? Check. Bob-ombs? Double...
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MBTV S02E04 – MakerBots & Students
In this episode of MakerBot TV you’ll hear from MakerBot operator Will Langford. Will was MakerBot’s very first intern and he has continued to work at MakerBot every summer for the last three years!...
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Angry Birds Flying Through The Thingiverse!
While 10 million people were downloading Angry Birds Space over the weekend, Thingiverse user xpekted was designing an Angry Birds chess set for the MakerBot/Tinkercad chess set design competition!...
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Action Chess by Cymon
Action #Chess by Cymon Thingiverse citizen Cymon has entered the TinkerCAD Chess Set Design Challenge with a bang. This Voltron-esque creation combines all 16 specially designed chess pieces per side...
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MakerBot Chess Is Cheaper Than Ancient Middle East Chess
Since we started the chess set design challenge with Tinkercad, I have been so interested in the history of chess pieces. Why do we use the pieces we use and how did they get their shapes? Wikipedia...
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Tinkercad Chess Set Design Contest: We Have A Winner!
This past Monday was the close of another very successful design challenge, for which MakerBot collaborated with Tinkercad to find the best original chess set that could be printed on a 3D printer. As...
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MBTV S02E07 – How Much Plastic?
One of the questions I hear a lot when I am out at events – showing MakerBots to people who have never seen them before – is, “What is the cost of materials for a MakerBotted object?” Sure, filament...
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