First test print with the MakerBot

Since I know I won’t be with the agency much longer, I thought it would be a great parting gift to assemble the MakerBot Thing-O-Matic the team had ordered, and along the way pick up tips and experience for when I buy my own for home.

Some people get really cranky when they see me working on it, demanding to know what it’s good for and pointing out that it’s not super-great resolution and all the blaugh-blaugh-I-DO-declare. BALLS, I say. I’m not going to be making ART with it, I’m going to be making tools and parts. And as long as you can take a file and some sandpaper to it, the finish quality is kind of up to the operator, thank you very much.

I managed to get one solid print out of it before the whole thing died in my arms yesterday. Hopefully I can figure out what went wrong, I think it’s something with the power supply, and get it up and running permanently before I leave for good. And mine’s in the mail!