Bre Pettis of MakerBot holding a 3D printer in 2010 and 2012

Here's MakerBot's Bre Pettis holding a Cupcake on the cover of Make in 2010 and a Replicator 2 on the cover of Wired in 2012. The more things change… (Photo by Jake Spurlock)

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Well, his hair is a little better in the Wired cover.
spacedoggy

Bre taking makerbot closed source is a huge blow to the open hardware community. makerbot was one of the few early success stories of the still relatively young open hardware movement, along with adafruit and sparkfun. That, combined with many regular contributors of Thingiverse (myself included) finally reading the small print last week, and realizing that they are forfeiting their “moral rights and attribution” due to a clause slipped in unnoticed last year. is leaving a bitter taste in a lot of peoples mouths.
http://echofox3.blogspot.com efergus3

And over at Slate: http://hive.slate.com/hive/made-america-how-reinvent-american-manufacturing/article/the-steve-jobs-of-useless-plastic-trinkets
- Ito Kagehisa
  
  Thanks for that, it was a refreshingly practical change of viewpoint – not doom and gloom, per se, but also not the usual breathlessly overhyped adulation of useless plastic knicknacks.
pt

@spacedoggy i think it’s cool that MAKE was the place that first hired bre on his journey, weekend projects was a great series and later he was on the cover of MAKE, and now WIRED. so congrats everyone at makerbot, this will help get 3d printers in the minds (and homes) of more people.
i’m part of MAKE and part of adafruit and at adafruit our statement on all this so far has been “we’re going to keep shipping open source hardware while everyone debates all this” – check out bre’s latest post: http://www.makerbot.com/blog/2012/09/24/lets-try-that-again/
- spacedoggy
  
  Hi Phil, I read the blog (and left a comment), I wish Bre/Makerbot all the best in the future in their new market, but they are leaving the the hobbyist market for open 3D printer kits is wide open, For hobbyists the appeal is in building and learning robotics and improving associated software, and to receive attribution for significant contributions to an emerging technology.
evilpeacock

It’s always wacky to see a former undergrad classmate pop up on the cover of Wired.
BarBarSeven

Here is an article in Make about the move towards MakerBot closed source platform. http://blog.makezine.com/2012/09/19/is-one-of-our-open-source-heroes-going-closed-source/