Bre Won't Stop
And he has a hammer.
Nov 06
Nov 02
cvxn:
Princess Leia and her stunt double waiting (and tanning) on set.
Enjoy it America. This is what you get instead of universal health care.
Really? We don’t get universal health care because we build amphibious assault ships? I don’t think that’s fair. Not at all.
It’s entirely fair. And it’s not just about money. It’s also about political will. Health care would be nifty, but warships are required! Health care must be deficit neutral but killing machines can cost whatever is “necessary”. Catching up to the rest of the world’s health care is “risky” but fighting hypocritical never-ending, unwinnable wars that foster anti-American sentiment is never even questioned.
We don’t get universal health care because we’ve been convinced that perpetual war is “American” and taking care of each other is “communist.” Our priorities are seriously screwed up. And that’s why we get warships (and prisons and banker bailouts) instead of health care.
In addendum to this, I personally find the concept of making a warship out of the WTC both morbid and disturbing. Not to be totally hippie-dippy or anything.
Oct 25
We love Thingiverse. it’s a great spot to go get objects, put objects online to print or cut.
There are a little over 1000 things on thingiverse currently, and it is a great starting point for people interested in creating objects with high tech tools. To see if our little shop can stimulate the thingularity, we’re offering a 20% discount on objects printed or cut at Metrix Create:Space.
We love custom made one-offs, but we’d like to see more things online. Upload your design, or grab one from the thingiverse, and we’ll apply the discount to your machine time. The only catch is that we have to pull the file from thingiverse. Don’t make a derivative and give it to us. You have to contribute to the site.
If you’re a full member of Metrix Create:Space, this brings your discount to 40% on thingiverse objects!
Mar 06
I was bored tonight so I made some doodles. I like to find interesting pictures of my interesting-est friends and then draw them.
Mar 03
“ The Cult of Done Manifesto
1. There are three states of being. Not knowing, action and completion.
2. Accept that everything is a first draft. It helps to get it done.
3. There is no editing stage.
4. 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.
5. Banish procrastination. If you wait more than a week to get an idea done, abandon it.
6. The point of being done is not to finish but to get other things done.
7. Once you’re done you can throw it away.
8. Laugh at perfection. It’s boring and keeps you from being done.
9. People without dirty hands are wrong. Doing something makes you right.
10. Failure counts as done. So do mistakes.
11. Destruction is a variant of done.
12. If you have an idea and publish it on the internet, that counts as a ghost of done.
13. Done is the engine of more.
1. There are three states of being. Not knowing, action and completion.
2. Accept that everything is a first draft. It helps to get it done.
3. There is no editing stage.
4. 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.
5. Banish procrastination. If you wait more than a week to get an idea done, abandon it.
6. The point of being done is not to finish but to get other things done.
7. Once you’re done you can throw it away.
8. Laugh at perfection. It’s boring and keeps you from being done.
9. People without dirty hands are wrong. Doing something makes you right.
10. Failure counts as done. So do mistakes.
11. Destruction is a variant of done.
12. If you have an idea and publish it on the internet, that counts as a ghost of done.
13. Done is the engine of more.
—
Bre Pettis | I Make Things - Blog - The Cult of Done Manifesto
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When I first met Bre Pettis three years ago in Andrew Baron’s apartment he was wearing all leather and he asked me, “What do you make?” and I knew he wasn’t referring to income.
Bre is building a scary machine of himself- he’s some kind of awesome Rube-Goldberg invention, the final result of which we’ve all yet to see, but is on a scale I’m not sure even he realizes.
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Feb 27
Feb 16
Be the alpha geek at any nerdfest. Learn how to count in binary on your fingers!
Nov 28
Lux Alptraum saw a circular scarf and wanted one without spending a lot of cash so she went and bought some fabric and sewed one up! This would make a great inexpensive holiday present!
Nov 24
In a week, I travel to Vienna to participate in Roboexotica, the festival of cocktail serving robots. I’m bringing the Cherrytron 2000 with me. It’s a robot to put cherries in drinks!
Late in the evening Eric Skiff jumped in to make the code happen and the whole project came together in one night. Eric also provided the excellent soundtrack that he created with nanoloop. Adam Cecchetti gets credit for starting the original prototyping with me. The arm is made with Raphael Abram’s Twitchie Kit plus a few servos I pulled out of a broken RC helicopter that Joel Johnson and rubber bands!
Eric will have the code up momentarily for you to review and if you don’t want to use popsicle sticks, you can download the cherrytron 2000 design files and lazzzor cut the parts for the arm on thingiverse.
I’m torn, I really love the popsicle stick aesthetic. Should I take them off and make it all shiny and red with acrylic parts? Help me decide in the comments!
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