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. Bre Pettis Read Quote
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. Bre Pettis Read Quote
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. Bre Pettis Read Quote
I talked to a guy who has old cars, and there are parts that don’t exist any more. So he makes radio dial knobs for obscure cars. Bre Pettis Read Quote
We raised $10 million in 2011. Our rule was, we wouldn’t accept money from anybody we didn’t want to have dinner with. Bre Pettis Read Quote
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. Bre Pettis Read Quote
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. Bre Pettis Read Quote
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. Bre Pettis Read Quote
Most people don’t feel empowered to make CAD models. The MakerBot Digitizer solves that problem. Bre Pettis Read Quote
