MADE IN MY BACKYARD / BRE PETTIS

OPEN DESIGN NOW

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McWire RepStrap

2008 Printing shot glasses at Roboexotica

2007

2008 NYCResistor was founded

Finally, the ordinary person is in the unique position of being able to make almost anything with off-the-shelf modules, parts, community and shared code.

2008 thingiverse.com was launched

2009 MakerBot Industries was formed

Rep Rap Version I: Darwin

2009.3.13 8:15AM MakerBot Cupcake CNC kit

was completed

・Users sharied tips and stories on MakerBot Google group

・Increase of 3D-printed designs on Thingiverse

MakerBot’s mission: To democratize manufacturing

MakerBot operators: 2,500

MakerBot operators report that fixing things

around the house is a point of pride for them.

MakerBot Unicorn Pen Plotter

MakerBot Frostruder

2010 Thing-O-Matic

“What will people do with it?”

No censorship Interaction with viewers

Personal Manufacturing

Links • Slide-2 http://www.flickr.com/photos/shifzr/3084645936/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/ctp/3084242293/ • Slide-3 http://www.nycresistor.com/ http://vermontmakers.org/tag/arduino-programming/ http://vimeo.com/make • Slide-4 http://reprap.org/wiki/Darwin • Slide-5 http://kk.org/cooltools/archives/4214 • Slide-6 http://www.thingiverse.com/image:37404 • Slide-7 http://www.makerbot.com/blog/2010/09/21/the-makerbot-unicorn-pen-

plotter-kit/ http://www.makerbot.com/blog/2009/11/02/rd-frostruder-mk2/ • Slide-8 http://wiki.makerbot.com/thingomatic