Maker Bloom
There’s been a lot of activity in the made things section lately, thanks to the rapidly increasing availability of 3D printers. It’s also fast becoming an informal rule that if you can at all manage it, you should print your design yourself before uploading it, to show it can be done.
Add to that the new users bringing new models fast and furious, and the number of parts on Thingiverse is really taking off lately! The user base is now large enough that something beautiful, elegant and useful is virtually garanteed in any given week.
And this is still only the beginning.


tamberg Said,
September 28, 2009 @ 4:58 am
Another trend seems to be uploading GCode files. As far as I understand, this is not very useful because GCode depends on your actual 3D printer (in contrast to STL). On the other hand MakerBots dominate Thingiverse anyway.
Regards,
tamberg