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With just over two weeks left to World Maker Faire New York, the countdown is on! Our first full-scale East Coast Faire will take place on September 25 and 26 at the New York Hall of Science in Queens, which was originally built as a pavilion for the 1964 World's Fair, the perfect location to showcase the newest maker-made art and tech. In the lead-in to the Faire, we want to showcase the Maker Faire's most important collaborators: the makers themselves. Today we chat with RuBot creator and Mechatrons director, Pete Redmond.

1. Tell us about the project you're bringing to Maker Faire.
RuBot II is the worlds fastest Rubik's Cube-solving robot, certified by the Guinness World Records and appearing in the 2010 edition of the Guinness Book of Records. It is a humanoid robot that solves a cube in about 25 seconds. I built RuBot to demonstrate a machine doing something regarded as clever when done by humans. RuBot is completely open so all the circuits and mechanisms can be seen working.

The MakerBot CupCake is a thing of beauty, an open-source 3D printer whose $750 price undersells the commercial alternatives by a ton. Plus, you get a fanatical group of users who’ll help you debug any problem. Yes, the Dimension uPrint can make tighter models and outputs them quicker, but $20,000 excludes most amateurs. Then there’s the new UP! PP3DP, which costs a mere $1,500 and features a quality that seems on par with the MakerBot — still not a threat. But if 3D printers go mainstream and the price drops to an inkjet price point (say, $99) how can MakerBot compete? Anything made out of electronics can be made more efficiently and cheaply in a sweatshop than a Brooklyn warehouse. At some point, a commercial 3D printer will undersell the MakerBot. What then?

In my previous post about the UP!, MakerBot user Dominic Muren weighed in with this excellent comment:

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If you'd told me yesterday that it was possible to make a solar system mobile from nothing but yarn and styrofoam craft balls that I'd be proud to hang in my living room, let alone give to a child, I would not have believed you. You win this round, Instructables user yosyam!

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There is so much awesome here, I'm not sure where to begin. A while ago, Bart Dring designed and built a DIY 40W laser cutter, and also set up a community to go along with it. Next thing we know, the laser cutter has been upgraded to include a Makerbot 3d printhead, parts kits for the laser cutter are made available, and someone else is printing a laser cutter on a 3d printer. Excellent work!

Ok, now I'm really ashamed of the fact that I haven't gotten my Reprap printer working yet. Back to the lab!