7 Quotes & Sayings By Bre Pettis

Bre Pettis is a mechanical engineer and inventor. As an engineer, he focuses on making things that work. One of his inventions, the MakerBot Replicator 2 3D printer, is a desktop 3D printer that can produce three-dimensional objects from almost anything, such as plastic and metal objects. He also started the non-profit organization, Maker Media , to educate people about how to 3D print.

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My parents had a software company making children's software for the Apple II+, Commodore 64 and Acorn computers. They hired these teenagers to program the software, and these guys were true hackers, trying to get more colors and sound and animation out of those computers. Bre Pettis
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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. Bre Pettis
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Our intention is that people use MakerBots to have a positive impact on the world. Bre Pettis
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You can go from creating the design on your i Pad to making the object on your MakerBot. Bre Pettis
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One of the criticisms we get is, 'Does the world need more plastic crap?' But you have to look beyond the plastic crap, to the design, to the experience, to the empowering nature of the MakerBot and the community. Bre Pettis
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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