You can get really far by putting your ideas out there and letting other people build on them.

We already live in the futureit's not like we're waiting for something to happenit's just a matter of doing it.

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?

A lot of it is "how do you work with people". How do you get people to work with you and do wonderful things.

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.

You can get really far by putting your ideas out there and letting other people build on them.

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.