Many of the designs on Thingiverse are meant for the greater good - e.g. The 400,000th Thing was published on July 19, 2014. Īs of November 2012, 25,000 designs had been uploaded to Thingiverse by June 2013, the total exceeded 100,000. Thingiverse received an Honorable Mention in the Digital Communities category of the 2010 ARS Electronica, Prix Ars Electronica international competition for cyber-arts. The open source value creation of Thingiverse was a major component in the value of Makerbot.
In 2013, Makerbot and Thingiverse were acquired by Stratasys. Thingiverse was started in November 2008 by Zach Smith as a companion site to MakerBot Industries, a DIY 3D printer kit making company. Thingiverse houses more than a million open source hardware designs, that allow prosumers to save money by manufacturing their own products rather than purchase them commercially. Many of the object files are intended for the purposes of repair, decoration or organization. Numerous technical projects use Thingiverse as a repository for shared innovation and dissemination of source materials to the public. Thingiverse is widely used in the DIY technology and Maker communities, by the RepRap Project and by 3D printer and MakerBot operators. 3D printers, laser cutters, milling machines and many other technologies can be used to physically create the files shared by the users on Thingiverse. Providing primarily free, open-source hardware designs licensed under the GNU General Public License or Creative Commons licenses, the site allows contributors to select a user license type for the designs that they share. Thingiverse is a website dedicated to the sharing of user-created digital design files.
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