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At MakerBot, we couldn't be happier to help you make the world a cleaner
place. If you happen to be moving to a new place, you may be surprised at
the things already available on Thingiverse for improving your new home.
MakerBot in the Kitchen
Once you have a MakerBot, you may find yourself looking at the world
through “MakerBot goggles.” Everything you look at gets analyzed for over-
hangs to see if will fit inside the build envelope of the MakerBot, could be
replicated in parts, or how it could be made more awesome. From then on,
you can add it to your mental file under “never have to buy one of those
again!”
Sometimes it's not even possible to obtain a replacement part. You can't
find replacement latches for the single-pane windows in my 1970s
home. No one makes them, no one carries them. Before owning a Mak-
erBot, my options were to live without latches, cobble together some-
thing ugly, or just replace the entire window. Not surprisingly, the op-
tions of “living with it,” “an ugly fix,” or “replacing the whole thing” are
rarely conducive to marital bliss. Fortunately for me, the best option of
“making a new part” dovetailed quite nicely with my desire to buy a
MakerBot.
The first few days of owning a MakerBot involved me asking for lists of
things I could fix, running around the house measuring things, designing
parts, and then replicating and installing them as quickly as I could. The
most fun part of this process was being able to measure and design
parts as my MakerBot hummed in the background replicating little
household fixes.
— MakerBlock
Thingiverse user Zaggo needed to fix a light in his kitchen. The light was under
his cabinets and over his counter and was attached with a bracket that had
broken. He was able to design a new part in 15 minutes, replicate it in 20
minutes, and had his light fixed in just under an hour (
http://www.thingi
verse.com/thing:995
). His bracket is shown in
Figure 2-4
.
Figure 2-4.
Zaggo's light bracket
