Hi Everyone!

Finally some communication again! We have been quiet for a while, not because we didn’t do anything, but because we were so busy with lots of things!

Our plan is to communicate better and more!

Let me summarize a few points of things we have been working on the last 2 months.

New Building

Finally we moved out of the studio of Martijn! His house became way too small for all our activities! Also, him and his family deserved to have their house back. After looking around for a building, we found lots of expensive office buildings, but when Martijn found an old abandoned school building, we fell “in love” with it. We agreed with the local government that we could rent the building for a very reasonable price, only when we did the investment to get the building “alive” ourselves. So we had to arrange a new heating system (just in time, it’s freezing outside!), dig a trench for a gas pipe, clean the whole building, fix the leaking roofs, replace most electric wiring, get furniture and computers, install IT equipment and – not the least important – find great people to come and work with us. So please see the fragment below to get an impression of our new “Headquarters”!

Production

Since we have more space to run production and get it better organized, we try to get ahead of schedule. But this is still hard, because sales are growing very rapidly, faster than we anticipated. The machine consists of a lot of parts, and when a single part gets delayed, it might delay our shipment schedule. At the moment we are awaiting a shipment of electronics, which is holding us back. It will come in at the end of next week, so we are preparing a very large shipment we have never done before!

Support

We are proud of all people helping us out at the forum and the googlegroups! Without you guys we could never have done what we do right now! We’d like to continue to work on making the Ultimaker a Plug-and-Print machine!

Development

We have an interesting feature cooking that makes your Ultimaker much easier to use!

I hope you liked our update on what we are up to.

Groeten uit Holland!

Siert, Martijn, Erik

And the rest of the team:

Harma, Tamar, Bart, Anita, Lindsay, Menno, Vincent, Sander, Aike, Nikki, Marrit, Martijn, Merle, Calliope, Julius, Florian

What do you do when you have your Ultimaker, you start experimenting.
Taylor Alexander did some experiments and printed some very precise thin parts, rotor blades for his helicopter and they work perfectly. Whats next a bigger helicopter maybe?

The Ultimaking Ltd. team is looking for dedicated, brilliant people who want to help us make a difference in how, and where, things are made! Are you, or do you know someone, who is just perfect for the job? Get in touch with us!

There are positions in support, operations (management) and a position as a community manager. Also there are internship positions available. You will be working in a young and passionate team. You will have male and female colleagues. There is lots of room for your ideas, as we are still inventing new ways to better handle the immense growth resulting from “industrial revolution 2.0″.

Where do I sign up?
Read the info at the jobs page…

Lots of people visited the 3D printing event during the Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven. A lot of Ultimaker operators printed and showed what they made. It was nice to meet you guys.
30 Ultimakers printing



Joris with his portable Ultimaker on batteries


Harma watch your fingers!


Florian testing a gun


Nice prints Florian

We’re giving away a complete Ultimaker 3D printer! The only thing you have to do is submit a great design to the contest.
The first prize is an Ultimaker 3D printer and a 3D print of the design, 2nd Prize is a 3D scanner and a 3D print of the design and 3rd prize is a 3D print of the design. Price winners will be announced during the 3D Printing Event, October 25 2011, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.

3D Design Competition

We will be present during the Dutch Design Week at the 3D printing event.

Specialy for the World MakerFaire we made Ultimakers in colors and an experimental Ultimaker +, build envelope 21x21x55cm. We took it to Time Square for a nice picture.
Visited a Makerbot party with the Ultimakers, great guys, they let us print beside the rows of TOM’s.

We will be at the World Maker Faire event in New York from september 17 to 18. Come and meet us at the 3D printer village. Beside some nice colored special edition Ultimakers there’s also a Ultimaker+ printing large parts.

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The Ultimakers got through customs with little problems. Just a lot of delay. Guys in customs really liked the pink panther lady.

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The 3D printing event will be held on Tuesday 25 october 2011, during the dutch design week at the High Tech Campus[updated:] Seats2Meet, Strijp S in Eindhoven.[/updated] at Eindhoven, the Netherlands.

The Conference (part of the event) will tackle social, technical, cultural and design challenges, discuss innovative solutions, show new business opportunities and will give an outlook into the future of 3D home printer industry.

Ultimaker will be present at the event to organize the largest wall of 3D printers. We’d like to ask all Ultimaker operators who want to participate to show their machines and prints during the event. Print materials will be provided at the event, so essentially you’ll be printing for free. A possibility of printing your 3D scan will be provided. Click here to enlist and show off your machine!

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The bright minds at Metalab Vienna started playing with their Ultimaker and decided to crank some more speed out of the little machine. Well they succeeded, by writing using some new controlling software, Printrun, with modified “Sprinter” firmware on the Ultimaker. Watch these videos, you’ll be amazed.