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The Makerbot Cupcake CNC was Makerbot's first foray into the 3D printer kit market, and one of the first 3D printer kits on that market. The Cupcake CNC takes a lot of it's design cues from 2 sources, the initial reprap 3D printer, Darwin, and the other from the need to make it laser cut-able. | |||
It was followed by the Thing-o-Matic which fixed many of the problems associated with the Cupcake CNC. | |||
==The Start== | |||
I bought a Cupcake CNC in September 2009. I received Cupcake 224 from batch #6. I quickly assembled it and attempted a test print all in about 24 hours. It did not work. I could not get it to extrude plastic through the MK4 Plastruder reliably, when it did extrude I could then not get it to stick to the acrylic build platform. I left it be for a couple of years annoyed with what seemed a wasted purchase until January 2012 when I bought a MK7 drive gear from [http://kd85.com/ KD85], the closest European distributor. I also added a heated build platform to my order to ensure the extrusion would stick to the bed. | |||
==The Present== | |||
==The Aim== | |||
