MakerBot TV S02E03 - What Is Open Source?

In this episode you'll hear from MakerBot co-founder Bre Pettis about why he believes in an open source future!

Thanks to: Bre Pettis, Rob Raimondi, Chris Boynton and Josh Friedman
Music: Tu scendi dalla Mir - Cobol Pongide
Intro Music by Alan Bjorklund
Produced by: Annelise Jeske

• Category

  Science & Technology

[Mark Bobak]

How does the opinion expressed here only 6 months ago, square up with the latest news, that Replicator 2 is closed source?

[makerbot]

Basically - we're still working that out and we are going to be as open as we possibly can while building a sustainable business. Please check out Bre's statement regarding this matter on our blog and stay tuned for more discussion at the Open Hardware Summit next week.

[shardbearer]

So you're an Open Source Hardware company, eh? What happened to that Stepstruder MK8? Do you have to buy one to get the knowledge of how it works? I want STL files so that we can print them on RepRaps. If it truly is a great design, people in the RepRap community will start using them.

[makerbot]

The files for all the stepstruders can be found on Thingiverse(dot)com.

[daninc21]

Open source is the REAL future.

[coatduck]

I hope that at some point in my life I get to give Bre Pettis a hug

[Mark Bobak]

Thanks to the pointer to the blog post. I wasn't aware of it. Going to read it now.

[Emmanuel Nsanga]

if your into opensource then get of windows and got on linux.

[Oscar Falcón Lara]

The balloons setting "opensource" free in the air is a very cool thing.

[timb1986]

I love to hear Bre's passion when he speaks. I really liked the open source balloon video.