MakerBot is best known for its 3D printers, turning virtual products into real ones, but the company's latest hardware to go on sale, the MakerBot Digitizer, takes things in the opposite direction.

Measurements on mechanical devices and systems using a digitizer often require a variety of transducers or sensors. Such sensors convert mechanical parameters such as force, acceleration, pressure, ...

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When Bre Pettis unveiled MakerBot's Digitizer, you couldn't wipe the smile off his face. And, upon opening our own unit, it's easy to understand why. When you lift the plastic unit, swaddled in black ...

Portable FaroArms are coordinate-measuring machines (CMMs) used in our facility to improve the fabrication of parts and weldments. Using the arm captures coordinates that can be turned into accurate ...

I have 2 SJ30s and an SJ20 whose digitizers were replaced. I have been having problems since they were "repaired". The SJ30s have "hot spots" where tapping in one particular area of the Apps icon gets ...