NEW YORK — 3D printing was still decades away when Mattel debuted ThingMaker in the 1960s. As a primitive “at-home maker device,” it let kids produce bug-like Creepy Crawlers, mini-dragons, flowers ...
The ThingMaker Design App has easy-to-follow templates or allows budding toy designers to build their own creations from hundreds of parts. The ThingMaker is expected to sell for ...
Mattel’s ThingMaker 3-D printer, due out in October, is on pre-sale for $300. Credit: Autodesk, Inc. 3-D printing may not have taken off as quickly as I implied on a story I wrote a few years ago for ...