BIT: Thailand's Maker Magazine

January 4, 2015 Going to a couple of makerspaces here in Bangkok we realized there was a need to promote them. Since I like going to makerspaces and using their facilities, I would like them to be successful and stay in business so I can keep going. The problem with the maker community in Thailand is that it is small and there are not many people who have time to promote it.

Enter BIT Magazine. It was a news site we were working on but this seems like a much better idea. Hopefully people begin sending in their stories and we can start promoting the maker community here in Thailand, and connected Thai makers with the maker community worldwide.

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Lessons Learned After 1 Week of 3D Printing

December 24, 2014 With a new makerspace opened up right down the road and a very cheap 3D printing service available, we've been putting it to use for a series of test prints including a stamp and some keychains.

In addition to being fun and even useful, the projects also served the purpose of learning what can and cannot be done with 3D printing. The lessons learned will be applied to future projects. What were some of these things learned?

SketchUp 8 to 3D Printing

December 18 Just down Ratchada Road, Bangkok Thailand, on the 4th floor of Fortune IT Mall is Gravitech's new Home of Maker makerspace. In addition to being an extensive DIY electronics store, Home of Maker also has electronic benches, a 3D printer, and a classroom for lectures, workshops, and classes.

The 3D printer is particularly interesting to us because as a small design studio we have many 3D models on hand and every once in a while we think how great it would be to print them out into actual objects. Now when we design something, we can hop on the MRT subway and in 10 minutes do just that ... the whole process taking half a day.

Our first project was a 3D stamp for our Progress Thailand project. It took 10 minutes to fully design in SketchUp and with the .stl plugin described here in this older tutorial, we exported it as an .stl file and brought it on a thumbdrive to Home of Maker. There, the friendly and informative staff helped import it into MakerBot's software before transfering it to the printer itself (a MakerBot Replicator 2) to be printed.