[Philip Lelyveld comment: it will be interesting to see how the hacker community reacts to commercial intrusions into Maker Faire.]

[Press Release]

3D Systems Corporation announced today that it will showcase its maker and consumer solutions at the Bay Area Maker Faire, May 19–20, 2012, at the San Mateo County Fair Grounds, Expo Hall in booth #16.

Anchoring the exhibit is our exciting Cube Odyssey car, packed with our new Cube home printers, that has logged over 7,500 miles traveling across the country visiting schools, museums and maker spaces. We invite parents and their children to participate in our Kideville workshops, where children collaboratively design and print a village. We encourage everyone to enter our on-site My Robot Nation contest to create and win a full color 3D printed robot. Come experience first-hand our new, at home Cube printer and our maker special, triple print jet 3DTouch, the largest print area personal printer on the market today.

“We are thrilled to share with makers and their families our game-changing create and make tools,” said Cathy Lewis, Vice President of Global Marketing for 3D Systems. “Our fun 3D printers, cloud printing services and game-like creativity Apps are all available through Cubify.com.”

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