Bre Pettis and MakerBot Industries

[popesnose]

this guy is an evolved nerd: he didn't once push his glasses up on his nose by the bridge between the lenses.

[popesnose]

a member of a German lock-picking group, Sportsfreunde Der Sperrtechnik – Deutschland e.V., used his 3D printer to create a key to unlock handcuffs carried by the Dutch police. Startlingly, he was able to measure and reproduce the key accurately by using nothing more than a photograph of the key hanging from the belt of a police officer plus some basic math to gauge its size. Afterward, he not only printed out a copy of the key to test, but also put the model up online for anyone to print.

[VvXXXvV]

Bre?

[AbuBishir]

A guy made a centrifuge because he didn't have 1000 bucks to buy one. He would have had the money if he had not spent it on the makerbot!!

[edlikestoboogie]

I just want to warn everybody reading this. That I purchased a MakerBot in Sept. 2010, and I built it, it worked for one print, then failed. i called MakerBot in Brooklyn and they basicly act like rockstars thinking they are too good to support their little customers. AVOID AT ALL COSTS! Also if you already bought a MakerBot, threaten to sue Bre Pettis and MakerBot, and Bre will refund your money in full, and you can keep the MakerBot, for a free machine. Thats what I did. and I recommend it.

[TheFlanker35]

@edlikestoboogie,

Does the MakerBot work now? I want to buy a 3d printer, but I don't know whether to buy makerbot or reprap.

[edlikestoboogie]

@TheFlanker35 Sorry for late reply, i moved on to the Prusa Rep Rap. I would recommend that route for the cheap.

[mhaun]

@edlikestoboogie, You have a really great goal in life. Buy a machine, slap it together, don't follow the instructions so it doesn't get assembled correctly, then because you have a little problem with it, throw a big tantrum like the toddler that you are, until the company refunds your money that you probably took from your Grandmother in the first place. You're a fucking moron.

[edlikestoboogie]

@mhaun I did follow the directions. If you read my post properly I clearly note that I was ABLE to print something initially, but the printer won't stay working for more than a week. If you ask any makerbot owner, you will hear the same thing. My goal in life is to be a really good plastics engineer specifically for use in injection molding processes, so it is vital for me to be able to print prototypes fast. I have access to a real 3d printer now. What difference does it make where I get $

[edlikestoboogie]

@mhaun If you wanna toss your money at them, go right ahead, just don't expect your printer to work for long. Its garbage man, anyway you look at it, from the crappy balsawood like enclosure, to the horribly unreliable electronics, to the "community" filled with amatuer "engineers". The point of my comments is to keep REAL engineers like me buying this piece of garbage that actually need to do REAL work. I need prototypes in a day or two, but for kiddies, hey man, knock yourself out.

[cosmicshambles]

Can the MakerBot make a MakerBot?

[Rwilco]

@cosmicshambles

Not really...but you can build any of the parts that can be made from ABS. Even the case can be made that way.

[laughingsparrow]

i like how he donkey punched the air at the end. that was awesome.

[rickcheyne]

Now they just need to make a "scanner-bot" and we can all start using this like a 3D photocopier.

[Clintus]

Love Bre! I was there for the first MakerBot!!

[Belgianidiot]

I want one...

[bigbookofnothing]

this is so interesting!

[ImJarlen]

This is really interesting! 

[cary123]

Very Old News.

[phlyphlo]

Poor person. They missed the like button.

[ACLNM]

really interesting

[skyzefawlun]

I remember seeing one of these in action way back in the early 90s at MIT when I was going to school for electro-mechanical engineering. It blew my mind back then and was one of those things I'd geek out and tell people about for years after. I'm glad to see that such an amazing concept is being made available to a wider scope of people thus enabling them to express and realize their creative visions more readily. Thanks for the great video RBTech!

[iluvmykats]

Holy cow. I can see this becoming like the TV of our grandparents generation for our generation. By the time we're like 70, our grandchildren will think that having a 3D printer as well as a document printer will be as common as a cell phone.

[conradvink]

I hate to say it, but I don't think this thing is going anywhere. I already have enough cheap plastic crap in my life.

[Tripp393]

@conradvink Are you kidding me? This is immensely valuable for EVERYONE who wanted to see a small scale model of something.

[Cimlite]

@conradvink

Now you can design that cheap plastic crap yourself. ;)

... but seriously, this is a very useful tool if you want to design stuff. The example he uses in the video is awesome.

[lightsamus]

the future of this could be massive! my geek nerves are tingling!

[ACWraith]

This is what I get for watching my videos out of order... Dare I ask what happened to the bunny this time?

[httprover]

Hmmm. Wierd Science?

[Supuhstar]

R-JOJ91p9Wc I'm just saying.

[adamschful]

now they need 3d printers that print 3d printers :0

[markiduval]

That's nifty! :)

[marcus93hawk]

that is so awesome, i have seen machines that do that but hey are huge and cost thousands. this is the FUTURE!!!!

[Asphyziata]

I want that butterfly. :o

[cory8u]

Ultra geek right der.

[AnotherBrittanyy]

We have this in school

[ctso74]

The Botcave. I imagne that's a fun place to work.

[gulllars]

@ctso74 probably, but i'd easily pick intellectual ventures any day of the week given a choice between them.

[RobotTodd]

I hope this takes off faster now. I can't afford the twelve hundred dollar price tag atm. Certainly would have lots of fun with it though.

Specially if you are an arts and crafts person.

[adamvallieres01]

i want one

[kalasad]

Woah, this is the guy from the Make magazine channel? I remember when they stopped using him in videos, everyone was pissed and I unfollowed their channel.

[monkeyfunforidiots]

Wow, Bre's got a lot more manly since those old make magazine videos.

[videomissionary]

Maybe I can print myself a girlfriend TT_TT

[Dean5629]

@videomissionary lol don't cry, girlfriends are overrated

[YoshiIkagawa]

That is a very cool piece of technology.

[peruface]

I want to MakerBot an Ellie

[theodosiusng]

OMG Bre Pettis!

[FredrikFlintstone]

I saw this a few years back. Nice to see it's coming down to average Joe and Jane Doe. Now is when the technology meets society and I'm sure even the inventor will be impressed with what ppl create.

[CognosSquare]

He should be make more of the cool functional stuff instead of the cupcakes and rabbits.

[dravarian26]

@CognosSquare they can, but the cupcakes and rabbits are easier to show off.

[PixelBrainMush]

In 20 years it'll become self aware and we'll all be slaves to the MakerBot and its printed weaponry.

[uglydevil1]

6th

[MrLolcow]

Epic.

[allysoma]

This is so cool......

[heipaadegduP]

That is NOT HD. Wrealy not.

[KnifeDown]

Not first!

[Raider655]

@KnifeDown Hahahah you actually are first :)