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Done is the engine of more.
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Accomplishment
Done
Engines
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Customized jewelry is one of my targets with Bold Machines.
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Jewelry
Machines
Target
Bold
Targets
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We wanted people to 3-D-print anything, not just more 3-D printers.
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Printers
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I like to make things. Its been part of my identity since I was a kid.
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Kids
Identity
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I like to make things. It's been part of my identity since I was a kid.
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Identity
Since
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Our intention is that people use MakerBots to have a positive impact on the world.
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Intention
Positive Impact
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You can go from creating the design on your iPad to making the object on your MakerBot.
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Ipad
Object
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You can get really far by putting your ideas out there and letting other people build on them.
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Get Real
Ideas
People
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Most people don't feel empowered to make CAD models. The MakerBot Digitizer solves that problem.
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Empowered
Models
People Feel Make
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You learn so much by having customers and figuring out what they want and keeping them satisfied.
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Satisfied
Figuring
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A lot of it is "how do you work with people". How do you get people to work with you and do wonderful things.
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People
Wonderful
Wonderful Things
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It makes me sad when I see things that are just the same technology; you aren't passing the technology forward.
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Technology
Passing
Passings
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We already live in the futureit's not like we're waiting for something to happenit's just a matter of doing it.
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Matter
Waiting
Waiting For Something
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We have always moved with this approach of sharing and educating people with what they can unlock with 3D printing.
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Educating
Sharing
Unlock
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That's the beauty of living in New York City is that a good chunk of the media is here and willing to drink with you.
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New York City
Chunk
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We raised $10 million in 2011. Our rule was, we wouldn't accept money from anybody we didn't want to have dinner with.
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Dinner
Raised
Accept
Million
Rule
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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.
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Making Mistakes
Mistake
Life Best Learning
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I talked to a guy who has old cars, and there are parts that don't exist any more. So he makes radio dial knobs for obscure cars.
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Obscure
Dial
Talked
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My father was a ham radio geek, and I remember the glow of the vacuum tubes from a Hammarlund receiver that became a hand-me-down to me.
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Ham
Receiver
Tubes
Father Me Remember
Glow
Vacuum
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There was a tangible sense of potential as we packed them up. 'We're giving people 3-D printers that they can afford. What are they gonna make?
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Giving
People
Tangible
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My personal mission has always been to empower people to be creative. But the Holy Grail of a tinkerer is to make something that makes something.
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Creative
Holy
Holy Grail
Empower
Grail
People Always Something
Mission
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While at The Evergreen State College, I met Doranne Crable, and she was so dynamic and adventurous that I decided on the spot to take whatever she taught.
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Adventurous
Dynamic
Spot
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Before I started MakerBot, I was creating cool stuff and sharing it with the Internet. That's how I knew all the folks at BoingBoing, at Engadget and Gizmodo.
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Sharing
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At MakerBot, we joke that if we were engineers we would still be on our first prototype. There's something about just 'Doing it”iteration is a way of engineering.
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Engineering
Firsts
Way
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Pretending you know what you're doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing, so just accept that you know what you're doing even if you don't and do it.
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Accepting
Knowing
Pretending
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We started MakerBot in 2009 and made a conscious decision to educate people with the possibilities they could do with 3D printing and share with people what is possible.
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Conscious
Printing
Conscious Decision
Possibilities
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Learn how a 3D printer works. Get inspired. Make your own stuff. It is a wonderful time to be innovative. Connect things together. If youre into electronics, get an Arduino.
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Electronics
Stuff
Together
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Learn how a 3D printer works. Get inspired. Make your own stuff. It is a wonderful time to be innovative. Connect things together. If you're into electronics, get an Arduino.
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Electronics
Innovative
Printer
Time Together Your
Connect
Wonderful Time
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When we looked out at the world and saw what 3D scanners could do, we wanted to make something that could make really high quality models that you could create on your MakerBot.
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Models
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If you want to be a person who buys stuff at the dollar store, you can be that person. If you want to make really cool stuff on your desktop and be the manufacturer, that is a lifestyle.
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Desktop
Lifestyle
Buys
Dollar
Manufacturer
Store
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For me, when you put a MakerBot in a school, you add a manufacturing education to the environment where I think we can really empower the next generation to compete in the global economy.
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Add
Global Economy
Manufacturing
Compete
Empower
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We got involved with the RepRap Project, a community focused on making 3-D printers that could make copies of themselves and help create a world without money. We started making prototypes.
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Copies
Prototype
Printers
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We're on the brink of the next industrial revolution. Instead of buying things, you can make them on a printer. When you have a 3D printer, you can iterate more - what used to take months, now takes hours.
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Buying
Hours
Industrial Revolution
Months
Next
Printer
Revolution
Used
Brink
Industrial
Instead
Takes
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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.
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Innovation
Passing
Something New
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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.
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Design
Community
Empowering
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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.
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Design
Community
Crap
Empowering
Plastic
Beyond
Criticisms
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When people have a MakerBot, they have a different mindset from everybody else who grew up as a consumer. Instead of thinking, 'I need to go buy that,' they first think, 'Do I need to go buy that? I could just MakerBot that.'
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Mindset
Consumer
Everybody Else
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The self-driving car is coming. And right now, our best supply of organs come from car accidents... Once we have self-driving cars, we can actually reduce the number of accidents, but the next problem then would be organ replacement.
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Accidents
Organs
Organ
Reduce
Replacement
Supply
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I still have the first bottle opener I made on my MakerBot. Things you fabricate are things you care more about. I think there will always be people who go and buy crap at the dollar store. But I think it is cool when people craft things themselves.
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Fabricate
Cool Always People
Bottle
Craft
Dollar
Cool Care People
Opener
Store
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I've watched with amazement as Local Motors has pioneered a co-creation and micro-manufacturing model that has democratized the development and production of complex machines, effectively transforming consumer choice from supply-driven to demand-driven.
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Amazement
Development
Machines
Transforming
Watched
Choice
Complex
Consumer
Effectively
Model
Local
Production
Motors
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The people who are getting 3-D printers at home are pioneers, kind of like the people who bought Apple IIs in 1981. Adults are usually the last people to get it. The kids are like, 'Get out of my way, I want at this thing.' They immediately start getting creative.
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Creative
Pioneers
Adult
Apple
Bought
Immediately
Last
Printers
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One of my psychoses is that I feel like I can do anything. Actually, I believe anybody can do and make anything, even things that don't exist. The making isn't the hard part; it's having faith. If you do only reasonable things, you'll never start your own business.
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Reasonable
Hard Part
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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.
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Computers
Animation
Hackers
Program
Software
Acorn
Apple
Apple Ii
Colors
Hired
Teenagers
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