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Ultimaker 3D print farm!

Posted on September 24, 2012 by ErikDeBruijn

We’re really excited to show you our 3D print farm. We’ve been expanding it, because it’s always good to run many machines for a very long time to be able to test reliability. An added …
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3D printing: rocket science or not?

Posted on July 23, 2012 by ErikDeBruijn

We discovered throught Google+ that Craig Bonsignore has been doing a great weekend project… 3D printing rockets and launching them with compressed air! Below is a short video of a successful launch. The rocket landed …
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Ultimaker featured in Spits Nieuws!

Posted on May 7, 2012 by Bart Silvius

Today’s edition of the Dutch free newspaper ‘Spits Nieuws’ contains a half-page article about 3D-printing. The article is about the current state of the technology both in medical and home applications and of course the …
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We hear you!

Posted on April 20, 2012 by ErikDeBruijn

You asked, and we have listened! Some long awaited progress. Lead time is going down! From our new building, we’re finally able to start catching up with demand. Big shipments are sent out today, leaving …
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Ultimaker at Fab7 in Lima

Posted on August 25, 2011 by Martijn Elserman

Joris just handed over the Ultimaker to Bennito and Victor from the brand-new Fablab at the Faculty of Architecture in Lima. We built the printer last Tuesday at the Lima-lab within 5 hours, with almost …
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Ultimaker at BOTACON 0, New York

Posted on December 17, 2010 by ErikDeBruijn

I took my Ultimaker to BOTACON 0 (the first BOTACON of, I’m sure, many BOTACON’s to come!). There, I was giving a talk on the collaborative ecosystem that is emerging around digital fabrication. Bre Pettis …
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Speeding

Posted on December 8, 2010 by Martijn Elserman

The limits of the mechanical frame have not been discovered yet. This is an insanely fast print (the axes move at 15 cm/s), printing even fairly large objects pretty fast!
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Support material

Posted on November 29, 2010 by Martijn Elserman

Here’s a print with support material. The overhang at the chin and nose is would not be possible to print without support material. Support is printed from the same material as the guy is printed …
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Printing bigger things

Posted on November 25, 2010 by Martijn Elserman

One of the reasons I started designing the Ultimaker is I wanted to print larger, taller things, hence the 21x21x21cm build envelope. When printing large objects sometimes because of differences between the warm and cooled …
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PLA print

Posted on November 18, 2010 by Martijn Elserman

This Pink Panther woman printed in PLA turned out very nice. Muhler – Pink Panther Woman printed in PLA on the Ultimaker from Thingiverse.

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