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Thanks to a generous 2013 donation by [Makerbot](http://www.makerbot.com/), the Public Lab community received ten (10!) Makerbots and distributed them amongst our most active chapters. We are planning to use the Makerbots primarily for printing open source tool designs, such as the [smartphone spectrometer](http://publiclab.org/wiki/smartphone-spectrometer) and our custom rig for kite aerial photography.

- page with locations of 3d printers -- printing out as a service for local communities 
- make announcement: here are the 10 printers, here’s how you contact folks who are running them
- where are they? Who can we contact to use them? 

#4 
Dan Beavers has #4 in Picayune MS - dan dot beavers at acm dot org