The MakerBot Assembly Day was a rip-roaring success! Thanks to all those who attended and helped our bot crawl into life.
It took us quite a few hours, and a little cursing, but eventually we’ve got the 3D printer moving and extruding to our hearts content.
There’s a lingering bug with build ‘burping’s, but we do have to same something to work on for next weekend.
Some higlights:
- Max gave a demo of his quad-copter
- Phi started work on a furnace
- Adrian demod his ServoShield units
- Jeremy gave a demonstration on how spontaneous symmetry breaking is done

"Fire the Makerbot!"
- Makerbot First Print
- The Unboxing!
- Laying out the parts
- Bot number 129!
- Assembly — Peekaboo phase
- Inspection
- Assembly
- Beholding the blinkenlichten
- First Extrusion!
- First Extrusion!
- First Print
- Bec and the Makerbot
- “Fire the Makerbot!”
- First Extrusion















Cool pics, looks like a lot of fun. We have a Makerbot stuck in customs and we can’t wait to get it. We are thinking of making a video on the build which could be fun or embarrassing depending on how we go.
Wish us luck!!