3D printer producer Bambu Lab has launched a brand new toy system known as CyberBrick underneath its MakerWorld model, which pairs reusable and programmable electronics elements with 3D-printable fashions to allow a variety of attainable toys based mostly on each official and neighborhood designs. CyberBrick is initially solely out there via Kickstarter, however has already surpassed its funding purpose, and the primary kits are anticipated to achieve backers in Might 2025.
CyberBrick is launching with three official toys: a forklift, a truck, and a “soccer bot,” plus a wi-fi controller that works with all of them. The preliminary kits embody solderless digital modules and wi-fi elements, together with directions on the right way to 3D print extra elements and assemble the official designs, beginning at $29.99. The Kickstarter marketing campaign additionally contains the choice to purchase kits that embody pre-printed elements, although Bambu warns that after gross sales transfer to its common Maker’s Supply storefront, these pre-printed kits will now not be out there.
The actual enchantment of CyberBrick lies past the three official toys, nevertheless. Bambu has already proven off the beginning of what it hopes can be a variety of neighborhood designs that use its digital elements, which thus far embody a lunar rover, a strolling desk, a duplicate Tesla Cybertruck, and extra. The tech extends past toys too, with Bambu additionally promoting elements for a equipment that helps you seize timelapse footage of 3D printing. Every part is programmable, too.
This isn’t Bambu Lab’s first foray into 3D-printable tech. It already makes use of the identical MakerWorld model to promote the elements wanted to 3D print a variety of different toys and easy devices, from mice to sensible lights, however that is the primary time it’s introduced its providing collectively right into a cohesive ecosystem. CyberBrick’s designs aren’t restricted to Bambu Lab’s personal 3D printers, which can be a reduction to anybody nonetheless aggrieved by the corporate’s current choice to make use of an authentication device to limit entry to its printers, limiting customers’ potential to remotely print utilizing third-party instruments.