Brooklyn 3-D printer company MakerBot opens office at MetroTech
MakerBot Industries, the company that manufactures desktop 3D printers, has settled in at its new corporate offices at MetroTech in Downtown Brooklyn, the Brooklyn Paper reports. In keeping with the company’s fun, make-it-yourself theme, the office contains “giant, stackable construction toys,” a full-scale replica of Dr. Who’s TARDIS and a sprawling “bot farm,” where racks of 3-D printers churn out goodies.
The Brooklyn Eagle reported in 2012 that MakerBot, founded in Boerum Hill, leased a full floor, or 31,250 square feet, at One MetroTech Center on the 21st floor.
Bre Pettis, a former Seattle schoolteacher, co-founded the firm in 2009 with partners Adam Mayer and Zach Smith with the goal of democratizing 3D printing.
MakerBot, named one of the top 20 startups in New York City, manufactures The Replicator2X, a compact, open-source 3D desktop printer used to make anything up to the size of a loaf of bread out of plastic.