Chapter 10. Becoming Part of the Thingiverse Community
Wherein the MakerBot Operator earns citizenship in a ribald community. To be accepted as a true MakerBot Operator, one must share designs on Thingiverse, but all are welcome to reap the bounty of shared digital designs for physical objects. Allowing others to modify your design sets your design free to fly like a bird from the nest.
What is Thingiverse?
Thingiverse (http://www.thingiverse.com/) is a website where users from all over the world come together to share digital designs for making physical objects. For this reason, it’s sometimes called the "Universe of Things". User-contributed things have files of all kinds, from 3D files that you can build on your MakerBot to 2D files for laser ...
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