If I Only Had a Brain, I’d Have Mojo

Dear Desktop Engineering Reader:

I look like the Cowardly Lion from the “Wizard of Oz”, but I’m more like the Scarecrow. I could use a brain. If I only had a brain (and did not work for Desktop Engineering), I’d hit today’s Check it Out link and enter the Third Annual Rapid Ready Sweepstakes. It’s a no brainer.

I mean it. DE knows who you are already. You filled out the subscription form, right? So you’re not giving your contact info away to some scamming, blue pill-popping duke languishing in Estonian exile desperate for a place to stash his cash.

But why should you bother? Well, think of it. Your odds are better than most of these sort of things, especially those state-run games that nip you for a few bucks. This costs you exactly nothing. And you could be the dude or dudette who collects a new Mojo 3D Print Pack. That means you get a new Stratasys Mojo 3D Printer, its Print Wizard and Control Panel software, a support removal system called WaveWash 55 and start-up supplies. All together, that’s a shade less than 14k worth of 3D printing technology you could put on your desktop.

The Mojo 3D Printer is a cool thing. It’s a professional-grade 3D printing system for form, fit or functional testing and for showing off what you can design. It uses Stratasys FDM (fused deposition modeling) technology, prints in ABSplus thermoplastic materials in ivory, black, blue, fluorescent yellow, gray, nectarine, olive green, red or white, and has the software that makes 3D printing as easy to use as your inkjet printer. You can build parts as big as 5 x 5 x 5 in. (12.7 x 12.7 x 12.7 cm) with a nice layer thickness of 0.007 in. (0.178 mm).

“Alack,” I hear you lament, “I never win anything.” That’s what I said when I entered something, had my name called, gave my son the new 20-speed mountain bike and became hero Dad for at least 5 whole minutes. Or, better yet, see what Joe Lutgen, last year’s lucky draw, had to say about taking away his Mojo. He owns a consulting business. He took home the Mojo and extended his company’s offerings with affordable 3D printing services. Here, read what DE’s Kenneth Wong reported about Lutgen and his Mojo.

The 2012 winner, Maegen Spencer took her Stratasys 3D Print Pack to her office at Avinger, which develops micro devices to treat peripheral artery disease. They needed another 3D printer to make concepts on the fly and troubleshoot custom-designed devices. Spencer and her colleagues also found ways to use the 3D printer for fun stuff they do after hours.

“We’re engineers. We like to design our own devices,” Spencer said. “We’ve all looked at the company printer and thought, ‘What if I can just print whatever I want?’ A lot of those things have now been printed out.”

Sound like you? So then imagine giving your business, side business or your leisurely interests the jolt of action that a Mojo 3D Printer could bring you. Or imagine going to a pitch and bringing in a few 3D designs that let your clients see and hold what you’re capable of doing. You – apologies to lyricist Yip Harburg – could think up things you never thunk before, 3D print them, then sit and think and 3D print some more if you only had a Mojo. And you could, courtesy of Stratasys and DE, just for taking a minute of your time.

But you gotta do more than just imagine. You gotta hit today’s Check it Out link, fill out the form, answer a couple of easy questions and hit submit. That’s it. It’s a no brainer.

Thanks, Pal. – Lockwood

Anthony J. Lockwood

Editor at Large, Desktop Engineering

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