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Ultimaker open source 3D printing

Posted on December 20, 2012 by admin

Our Ultimaker has won 3 prizes ‘Most Accurate’, ‘Fastest’ and ‘Best Open Hardware’ in the Make:magazine November 2012 edition.

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Hot end bundle version 2

Posted on September 7, 2012 by admin

Today we are proud to announce an important improvement to your Ultimaker: The hot end version 2! IMPORTANT: The upgrade is now available in the Ultimaker shop and is intended for people who already have …
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Recycling with the Ultimaker!

Posted on August 20, 2012 by admin

Something unique happened last weekend at Lowlands 2012 as the Perpetual Plastic Project used two Ultimakers to create objects from disposable cups! The goal of the project has two ends: Enabling people to recycle at the spot and to …
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Be obscene, break the office routine – Design Competition

Posted on August 1, 2012 by admin

Win an Ultimaker! Do you want to touch your thoughts? Have you had enough of having great ideas but never realize them? With the Ultimaker you can make them. How? By winning this competition! We …
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Ultimaker on DEAF2012

Posted on April 3, 2012 by admin

May 16–May 20 (exhibition 3 June) | Rotterdam DEAF is back! The festival presents a wide range of program segments, including a large exhibition, concerts, performances, seminars, workshops and an academic symposium. Ticket sales started. …
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Printing parts

Posted on November 17, 2010 by admin

Printed parts starting to appear on the Ultimakers. This one has is nice and smooth surface at a 0.25mm layer thickness, thanks to the precise cartesian system. Even at high speeds it stays precise. At …
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Some first prototype movies

Posted on August 14, 2010 by admin

Here are some movies from one of the first prototypes called the elserbot. To visualize the print path a ballpoint pen is mounted to the extruder head.

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Test builds at Protospace Utrecht

Posted on July 27, 2010 by admin

The first test builds of the Ultimaker are taking place at Protospace Fablab Utrecht.The information gathered while building and printing with these is used to pollish the final design.

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Hello world!

Posted on June 21, 2010 by admin

This blog is about designing/developing an easy to build low cost 3D printer with a small form factor but large build envelope.

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