OPEN DESIGN NOW
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Open Design Now is a collaborative effort of Creative Commons Netherlands, Premsela, the Netherlands Institute for Design and Fashion and Waag Society.
Bre Pettis
Bre Pettis makes things that make things. Passionate about invention, innovation, and all things DIY, Pettis builds infrastructure for creativity. He is one of the founders of Makerbot, a company that produces robots that make things. He is also one of the founders of NYCResistor, a hacker collective in Brooklyn, and he co-founded the digital design sharing site Thingiverse.com. Besides being a TV host and video podcast producer, he has created new media for Etsy.com, hosted Make Magazine’s podcast Weekend Projects, and has been a schoolteacher, artist, and puppeteer. Bre says: “When I design something, I share it so that others can modify it, hack it, and use it however they like. That’s open design.”
Bre Pettis contents in Open Design Now:
MADE IN MY BACKYARD / BRE PETTIS
Envisioning the potential of open source tools to facilitate making, Bre Pettis retraces the thorny and convoluted path from wanting to produce self-replicating robots, through a series of prototypes, to being at the core of a little universe of 2,500 … Continue reading
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