Now I know their name is muck around these parts and I know that composite materials is nothing exactly new to you guys but did manage to get a close-up look of MakerBot’s new wood and bronze filament. Interestingly too heard the CEO talk and say that Thingiverse will always stay open.
http://mytct.co/MakerBotCES2015
The more I learn about MakerBot, the more sorry I feel for Bre Pettis. It seems more like he was overzealous and had his company taken from him by greedy venture capitalists.
My makerbot Replicator 2 is a workhorse… 2400 hours in one year and no major problems
Closing thingiverse would kill a source of ideas for them to try and patent.
@Jerry_LePore Yeah, but 5th gen and up sucks. 2400 hours isn’t bad at all, though. How are you keeping up with the hour count? I seem to recall the makerbot firmware tries to keep up with that?
Mine hasn’t reset with the firmware update… Count is under bot stats
@ThantiK Not sure Hoeken would see it that way…
@William_Frick very true, the acquisition of Stratasys by GrabCAD is interesting in that respect too.
Didn’t DefCad make a rip of thingiverse anyways?
@Mike_Kelly_Mike_Make I think the more T&Cs and open-source friendly of Thingiverse is probably YouMagine by Ultimaker, they’ve capitalised on everything some see wrong with Thingiverse, naming rights etc. But for sheer volume of readily available files I don’t think Thingiverse will ever be beaten, reminds me of youtube v daily motion in the early days
More my concern is that if they removed it all the data would be loss. YouMagine and ultimaker are awesome, but they need some more community aspects that thingiverse has. It’s a little addicting seeing those likes and collects pile up
@Mike_Kelly_Mike_Make I think 80% of the people MakerBot target though probably don’t think about these issues and no matter what YouMagine do it can’t keep up.
@Daniel_O_Connor , I’m sure. And don’t get me wrong, I’m not giving Bre a pass here. I’m just saying that Bre got what was coming to him also.
@ThantiK , yeah a pretty decent chunk of about $600m from memory.
The fact that most people who would be interested in a 3d printer don’t care about “these issues” do not mean that as members of the 3d printer community, one should just stop and accept the fact that Makerbot wins. That they can steal without consequence.
When someone does something wrong to the community, it is our responsibility to voice it out. Otherwise, the community lose. Tolerating bad behaviors will kill the community.
People Google in this day and age. This is especially true for people who are interested in 3d printers. The more that we talk with solid evident about how bad Makerbot is, the more those results will appear. Then it comes down to the person’s choice.