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
best learning life lived mistakes
I feel like I've lived a life of making mistakes and learning from them and doing my best to only make each mistake once.
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My father was a ham radio geek, and I remember the glow of the vacuum tubes from a Hammarlund receiver that became a hand-me-down to me.
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For me, when you put a MakerBot in a school, you add a manufacturing education to the environment where I think we can really empower the next generation to compete in the global economy.
brink buying instead next takes
We're on the brink of the next industrial revolution. Instead of buying things, you can make them on a printer. When you have a 3D printer, you can iterate more - what used to take months, now takes hours.
people positive
Our intention is that people use MakerBots to have a positive impact on the world.
bottle buy cool crap dollar opener people
I still have the first bottle opener I made on my MakerBot. Things you fabricate are things you care more about. I think there will always be people who go and buy crap at the dollar store. But I think it is cool when people craft things themselves.
figuring keeping
You learn so much by having customers and figuring out what they want and keeping them satisfied.
apple bought home kids last people printers
The people who are getting 3-D printers at home are pioneers, kind of like the people who bought Apple IIs in 1981. Adults are usually the last people to get it. The kids are like, 'Get out of my way, I want at this thing.' They immediately start getting creative.
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The self-driving car is coming. And right now, our best supply of organs come from car accidents... Once we have self-driving cars, we can actually reduce the number of accidents, but the next problem then would be organ replacement.
people
Most people don't feel empowered to make CAD models. The MakerBot Digitizer solves that problem.
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.
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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.
people
We wanted people to 3-D-print anything, not just more 3-D printers.
design object
You can go from creating the design on your iPad to making the object on your MakerBot.