Jan 6, 2010Get Seen! Steve Wrote a Book!
Steve and I met in 2005 at Gnomedex and we were the guys with video cameras when the conversation was all about audio podcasting.
Since then, Steve has continued being Steve! He has his camera with him all the time and he shares his life and his perspective with the internet, which is basically my version of a saint. He interviewed me for his book and it shows up on Amazon now. Cool! 
His reach now goes into the realm of old skool books. He's coming out with a book called Get Seen: Online Video Secrets to Building Your Business
New MakerBot Video
The gang who does the Radar series over at Babelgum came by the BotCave and made this video. They used Nikon d90's and it turned out beautiful! Go to their site and check it out big.
ABC News Radio Interview
Bre Pettis of Makerbot Brings 3D Printing to ABC News Radio from ABC News Radio on Vimeo.
Dan Patterson interviewed Bre about the MakerBot on ABC news. Check it out!
Digital Designs in iTunes?
When Mark Frauenfelder was asked to think of an imaginary future Apple product, he came up with a 3D printer in full Apple style, glossy and sleek.
I've always imagined that someday soon, everyone will have a 3D printer at home. Mark's vision of the Apple-y future really shook me up and made me think about how designs circulate. In the future Mark posits, designs could be like songs, or iPhone apps in iTunes.
"To create a product, you visit the iTunes Store to choose from among tens of thousands of product designs--prices range from free to $9.99--purchasing one just as you would a song, video, or app. The 3D data is sent to the iMake, which builds the parts, layer by layer, out of high-quality plastic. The iMake will also make the circuit boards. Then, all you do is snap the pieces together! After purchasing a 3D model from the iTunes Store, it takes about 15 minutes to print a 3D part."
Imagining a digital design branch of iTunes unsettled me, because one of the main focuses of the current DIY 3D printing movement is to be open source--and focus on sharing ideas and designs freely. The collective goal is to build out a large library of digital objects that anyone can download, modify, customize and share.
Should designs be free? It's really a provocative question. Would designers be more motivated to create designs if they could make money off of them?
I'm really curious to hear what you think about this in the comments! And, thanks to Mark for the thought-provoking vision of the future!
