Bre Pettis
Bre Pettis
Bre Pettisis an American entrepreneur, video blogger and multi-artist. He is also known for DIY video podcasts for MAKE, and for the History Hacker pilot on the History Channel. He is one of the founders of the Brooklyn-based hacker space NYC Resistor...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
CountryUnited States of America
design object
You can go from creating the design on your iPad to making the object on your MakerBot.
decided met spot state
While at The Evergreen State College, I met Doranne Crable, and she was so dynamic and adventurous that I decided on the spot to take whatever she taught.
looked models saw
When we looked out at the world and saw what 3D scanners could do, we wanted to make something that could make really high quality models that you could create on your MakerBot.
building passing people sad technology
What I like on Kickstarter is when I see real innovation and I see people building something new. It makes me sad when I see things that are just the same technology; you aren't passing the technology forward.
conscious people possibilities share
We started MakerBot in 2009 and made a conscious decision to educate people with the possibilities they could do with 3D printing and share with people what is possible.
copies create focused involved money printers themselves
We got involved with the RepRap Project, a community focused on making 3-D printers that could make copies of themselves and help create a world without money. We started making prototypes.
buys cool desktop dollar stuff
If you want to be a person who buys stuff at the dollar store, you can be that person. If you want to make really cool stuff on your desktop and be the manufacturer, that is a lifestyle.
anybody million money raised rule
We raised $10 million in 2011. Our rule was, we wouldn't accept money from anybody we didn't want to have dinner with.
cool folks knew sharing stuff
Before I started MakerBot, I was creating cool stuff and sharing it with the Internet. That's how I knew all the folks at BoingBoing, at Engadget and Gizmodo.
anybody believe business faith hard reasonable
One of my psychoses is that I feel like I can do anything. Actually, I believe anybody can do and make anything, even things that don't exist. The making isn't the hard part; it's having faith. If you do only reasonable things, you'll never start your own business.
people
We wanted people to 3-D-print anything, not just more 3-D printers.
beauty chunk city drink good living willing york
That's the beauty of living in New York City is that a good chunk of the media is here and willing to drink with you.
empower grail holy people
My personal mission has always been to empower people to be creative. But the Holy Grail of a tinkerer is to make something that makes something.
people
Most people don't feel empowered to make CAD models. The MakerBot Digitizer solves that problem.