Hackerspace TAZ 3D Printer Giveaway 2014

Does your hackerspace want a 3D Printer?
Here’s your chance to win a LulzBot TAZ!

We are big believers in supporting hackerspaces, and we are willing to put our money where our mouth is. LulzBot is giving away eight (8) free TAZ 3D printers to hackerspaces to celebrate Hardware Freedom Day on Saturday March 15, 2014. Learn more about the TAZ at https://www.lulzbot.com/products/lulzbot-taz-3-3d-printer.

The LulzBot Hackerspace 3D Printer Giveaway is a chance for hackers who build, hack, make, and create to add 3D printing to their “to do” list. To learn about how LulzBot users are using their printers, visit the Case Studies section of our website: https://www.lulzbot.com/case-studies. Learn more about Hardware Freedom Day at http://www.hfday.org/.

PRIZE: One (1) LulzBot TAZ Desktop 3D Printer to eight (8) lucky hackerspaces.

WHO QUALIFIES: Any community-operated physical hackerspace, where people meet and work on their projects. Your hacker space must meet these hacker basics to qualify: community operated physical space; website/wiki; a basic set of hacker tools; belief in sharing resources and knowledge to build and make things; use and contribute to free software and open hardware projects and communities. For more, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackerspace.

SUBMISSION DATES: Saturday March 1, 2014 12 AM MT - Friday March 14, 2014, 11:59 PM MT. Winners will be notified by email and announced via our blog, on Google+, Facebook, and Twitter.

CHOOSING THE WINNERS: LulzBot staff will review all entries, and choose the eight (8) hackerspaces with the most creative idea on how they will use their shiny new LulzBot 3D printer.

HOW IT WORKS: Complete the forthcoming My Hackerspace Wants a 3D Printer form when available (will be live March 1, 2014 at 12 AM MT).

SPREAD THE WORD: Tell your friends about this contest and spread the word by sharing this link (https://www.lulzbot.com/printer-giveaway-2014) on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/LulzBot), Twitter (https://twitter.com/lulzbot3D), Reddit (http://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting), Google+ (https://plus.google.com/103627098852031010432/posts), and beyond!

We first want to thank everyone for the time and effort you put into your applications for the LulzBot 2014 Hackerspace Giveaway celebrating Hardware Freedom Day!

Here at Aleph Objects, Inc., makers of LulzBot 3D printers, parts, and filaments(https://www.lulzbot.com/catalog), we are fortunate to have a front row seat watching the hackerspace community grow.

(Pictured above: A LulzBot TAZ 3D Printer in use at the Loveland Creatorspace in Loveland, Colorado - http://lovelandcreatorspace.com/.)

Our Growing Community

More communities are doing more projects, in more places, with more members, than ever before. As the hacker/maker/creator/fablab community is growing, so is the Open Hardware and Free Software business community—including us!

We recently moved into a new 17,000 square foot headquarters facility in Loveland, Colorado, which includes a cluster of 135 LulzBot 3D printers. We have an experienced team with decades of hardware experience, and an expanding global supply chain that allows us to manufacture and deliver printers, parts, and filaments in record time.

And Now, the Winners!

As we grow as a company, our advancing capabilities allow us to rapidly build more high performance LulzBot 3D printers than ever before.

There were so many qualified applicants for this year’s giveaway, we decided to up the ante in our contributions to the hacker/maker community by expanding our giveaway from eight printers to twelve! All the winners are listed below. If you see a winner in your community, you should drop by and say congratulations!

• Calafou (Barcelona, Spain)-https://calafou.org/
  
  
  
• So Make It (Southampton, UK)-http://www.somakeit.org.uk/
  
  
  
• HackLab Barracas (Buenos Aires, Argentina)-http://wiki.hackcoop.com.ar/
  
  
  
• Hal9K (Aalborg, Denmark)-https://hal9k.dk/
  
  
  
• LVL1 (Louisville, Kentucky, USA)-http://lvl1.org/
  
  
  
• CU Community Fab Lab (Urbana, Illinois, USA)-http://cucfablab.org/
  
  
  
• TOG (Dublin, Ireland)-http://www.tog.ie/
  
  
  
• Unallocated Space (UAS) (Severn, Maryland, USA)-http://www.unallocatedspace.org/
  
  
  
• Milwaukee Makerspace (Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA)-http://milwaukeemakerspace.org/
  
  
  
• Arch Reactor (St. Louis, Missouri, USA)-http://www.archreactor.org/
  
  
  
• Sudo Room (Oakland, California, USA)-https://sudoroom.org/
  
  
  
• Chimera Arts and Makerspace (Sebastopol, California, USA)-http://chimeraarts.org/

We will be in touch shortly to coordinate shipping your new LulzBot TAZ 3D printer to your space!

You Can Still Get Your Space a LulzBot 3D Printer

If your space did not win the giveaway this year, we are having a limited time Hardware Freedom Sale where TAZ printers are available for only $1,994.95. Here’s where to buy a 3D printer for your hackerspace today (https://www.lulzbot.com/products/lulzbot-taz-3-3d-printer)!

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Thank you again,

The LulzBot Team