High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! MakerBot Industries is a company founded in January 2009 by Bre Pettis, Adam Mayer, and Zach Hoeken Smith producing an open source 3D printer rapid prototyping machine called the Cupcake CNC. The Cupcake incorporates the ideas of the RepRap Project with the goal of bringing desktop 3D printing into the home at an affordable price, partially due to being able to produce some of its own parts. It allows people to make their own bots that can build almost anything up to 4"x4"x6". They print with acrylonitrile butadiene styrene, high-density polyethylene and polylactic acid plastics. MakerBot started shipping in April 2009 and has sold units as fast as they can produce them. As of September 2009, there are over 200 machines. Demand for the kits was so great in 2009, that the company solicited MakerBot owners to provide parts for future MakerBots from their own MakerBots. Cupcake CNC machines are sold as do it yourself kits. The circuit boards are already soldered, requiring only minor soldering on non-critical parts from the user.

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