Bre Pettis Blog

Bre Pettis of Makerbot Brings 3D Printing to ABC News Radio from ABC News Radio on Vimeo. Dan Patterson interviewed Bre about the MakerBot on ABC news. Check it out!

MakerBot is featured in this Wall Street Journal article that just went live. Check it! Make sure to check out the video too! Tinkering Makes Comeback Amid Crisis By JUSTIN LAHART The American tradition of tinkering -- the spark for inventions from ...

Last year I made a video every day of November. This year, it's time to do it again. Every weekday, I'll post a new video. I'm doing this with some other video superstars! It's New In November!

Noisebridge, a hackerspace in San Francisco, is awesome. It's a very open and wonderfully chaotic space. I have been co-hacking from here while in town and it's got a fantastic vibe. This picture shows about half of the space. Behind me are two ...

FLOSS stands for Free Libre Open Source Software and the FLOSS Weekly podcast is a great open source focused podcast. They had me of MakerBot Industries on the show to chat about, well, MakerBot. Give it a listen. Here's the MP3!

I'll be writing the occassional articles and making a few videos for IEEE Spectrum and the first video is live. Make sure to check out the IEEE blog. It's a great resource for great ideas!

Like a cross between a road trip movie and Mad Max, my friends Zach Smith, Adam Mayer and I are on a journey to Toorcamp with MakerBot in tow. Toorcamp is a hacker conference and campout at an abandoned missile silo. I'll be updating my flickr page ...

Things are going good. MakerBot Industries is selling machines, a MakerBot will be on the Jimmy Fallon show tomorrow, and the stepper motors we've been waiting for arrived so we can ship out batch 3! We also got a FACTORY! Yep, we're renting a factory. ...

In 1992 I was on a flight to Japan putting together a scrapbook. I had been the runner up for 3 scholarships to go to Japan and so I came up with a different plan. I would save money by living in the woods of The Evergreen State College and I would ask ...

Joe Soko stopped by NYCResistor to take the class entitled "Fire the LAZZZOR!" For every class, each student makes something that they want. Joe had worked in a knife store at some point and got his mind set on a butterfly knife, but with a comb. He used ...

Lucas Murgida at 667 Shotwell from Chris Sollars on Vimeo. The prank is clever, but the psychology of lockpicking is worth staying for. Via Eliot

Firekites - AUTUMN STORY - chalk animation from Lucinda Schreiber on Vimeo. I spent a lot of time with chalkboards as a teacher and this video makes me happy. _This music video for Autumn Story by Firekites, was animated with chalkboard drawings by ...

4volt Jansen Walker Beta 1 from a3o Studios on Vimeo. Zach Hoeken and I started Thingiverse 6 months ago because we needed a place to share digital designs. There were other websites that did this, but they all did it wrong. We wanted to get it right ...

Rocketboom came by NYCResistor and I showed them around. I really like this video! (MOV)

Rocketboom came by NYCResistor and I showed them around. I really like this video! (MOV)

New hackerspaces are emerging in force. Today CCC-Trier launched and I made them this little welcome video! (MP4) Hackerspaces: Build - Unite - Multiply

On my show, Things, I show people who make things or I make something myself. Today I bring you Raphael Abrams who I found using a hacksaw to make his pockets lighter by cutting off the parts of keys that he didn't need! This is a great tip and everyone ...

Skynet Research sent us at NYCResistor a security camera. It's got some pretty sweet features and appears to be hooked up to some pretty sweet AI that can optimize human workflow. Big thanks to Skynet Research for the camera, feedback and support of open ...

Right as soon as you watch this video, go get some pliers or a vise grip and find the little bump on your paypass credit cards. Smoosh it with the pliers or vise grip and test it next time you are at a place where they have remote Paypass RFID readers. ...