Author Archives: Alexander Baloche

Maker Faire Bay Area was a success!!

Our stand was constantly busy with visitors and makers. And on the last day we also won the maker faire ‘editor award’, twice! While we were there we donated an Ultimaker to ‘make with moto’, …
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Some photos of the Maker Faire Bay Area

Check out our new stand!  

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XYZ experience

We shot a promo video of the ‘XYZ expo’ experience for the people who haven’t been there yet. For those visiting Amsterdam in the next couple of weeks the expo will run until the 2nd …
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Aluminium Casting of 3D printed parts

A while back we posted a blog about aluminum casting involving 3D printed PLA by Jeshua (3DTOPO). He has used this technique for several of his parts now and decided to post a longer tutorial …
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Toy Design Challenge

We are pleased to present to you, the Ultimaker Toy Design Challenge in collaboration with our partners at Grabcad. Here is an excerpt of the challenge on their website: ‘Ultimaker is one of the best-known …
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Printing a Zelda shield by Barnacules Nerdgasm

Here is another cool video from Barnacules Nerdgasm, enjoy!

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Ultimaker at Maker Faire Bay Area 2013.

From Saturday 18th May until Sunday 19th May we will be at Maker Faire Bay Area in San Fransisco. Well, actually we will be there TWICE,  since Ultimaker will be apart of the regular Maker …
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Cura bug fixes

Our R&D department has fixed some issues on our open source slicing platform Cura. Both for the Windows and Mac version, here you can download the new version of Cura. The fixes are: * Fix: …
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Perpetual Plastic Project At ING Bank

Check out the photos of the Perpetual plastic Project (PPP) rocking it with their Ultimaker at ING Bank. They design the lion themselves (for 3D) and it looks kinda cool with the white cord and …
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Upcoming Ulti-evening event

Monday 6th of May (next week) we will have our Ulti-evening event at Protospace in Utrecht (see directions). This is an excellent time to meet-up with other Ulti-heads and their machines, but the Ulti-evening is …
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