re:3D hit a milestone when we shipped our 100th Gigabot to the field! Around here, we like to celebrate when we achieve a goal. Our team of bots brainstormed on how we could celebrate, and one thing was for sure: we want to get YOU – the community – involved!
Our passion at re:3D is to keep the idea box open. That’s why we built Gigabot on an open source platform. We want the community to get involved and know that the brainpower of many can make a difference.
With this in mind, we launched the Great Big Gigabot Giveaway as a way to get YOU to think big and beyond the normal possibilities. With large-format 3D printing, anything is possible.
We are asking you and your community to submit ideas of how you would use Gigabot to make a difference. Think huge, because the next Gigabot could be yours.
As a team, we love that the 100th Gigabot found his home at the Clear Lake City-County Freeman Branch Library in Houston, Texas – a place where the community comes together to learn and grow. We support the endless fountain of ideas that young and old minds generate and were eager to deliver the 100th Gigabot.
It’s not every day that a library buys a 3D printer, so we wanted to chat with Jim Johnson, the librarian, about the library’s future plans with their Gigabot.
While the library is working toward developing a makerspace on the top floor of the library, they wanted to offer something different to the community that inspired innovation.
Thanks to a generous donation, the new makerspace will most likely be called Lee Innovation Lab. The plans, while not completely finalized, are to have a workbench and laser printer/cutter, so folks in the community can tinker around and solder.
Katy Jeremko
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