A two-day, family-friendly festival of invention, creativity and resourcefulness, and a celebration of the Maker movement.
A two-day, family-friendly festival of invention, creativity and resourcefulness, and a celebration of the Maker movement.
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How big can the Maker Movement get? Can it really restart a manufacturing renaissance in America? Will desktop fabrication have as much impact as desktop computing did? Bre Pettis (MakerBot) and Chris Anderson (Wired/3D Robotics, author of Makers) discuss the lessons learned in building big Maker businesses, and give a glimpse of where they think this movement is going.
Chris Anderson is the Editor in Chief of Wired, and the author of The Long Tail, Free and the forthcoming "Makers: The New Industrial Revolution". He is the founder of DIY Drones, 3D Robotics and GeekDad. He started his career in the science world as a physicist, before migrating into media via the science journals Nature and Science and then The Economist before taking over Wired in 2001. He lives in Berkeley with his wife and five young children. Fun fact: he started college at age 25, after a misspent youth in punk rock bands.
BRE PETTIS is a founder of Makerbot, a company that produces robots that make things. Bre is also a founder of NYCResistor, a hacker collective in Brooklyn. Besides being a TV host and Video Podcast producer, he's created new media for Etsy.com, hosted Make: Magazine's Weekend Projects podcast, and has been a schoolteacher, artist, and puppeteer. Bre is passionate about invention, innovation, and all things DIY.
