Haircut
My hair grows and eventually I get all scruffy and I am forced to get a haircut. Haircuts are expensive and require appointments and time. I cut my hair myself every few months. Here's my procedure so...
View Article2011 Predictions
2011 is going to be a year of sharing. Here are my predictions for 2011. 1. Life will continue to be interesting and I will continue to be very busy working on MakerBots and the community of more than...
View ArticleApps for the Appocolypse
With my prediction that the internet has would go down in 2011 coming true in Egypt and Obama looking to get it set up so he can shut down the internet in times of emergency, it makes you wonder what...
View ArticleCraving Art Creation with a Plotter
In high school, I took an engineering class. It was, by far, my favorite class. We had all sorts of assignments that ranged from taking something and drawing it from multiple angles to creating...
View ArticleFabricate 2011
I'm at Fabricate 2001, a conference about fabrication, design, and architecture. It's been great to meet the architecture community and chat. I don't have any architecture background, so it's a...
View ArticleOpen Design is Getting More Traction
By 2005, I was a serious old skool photography junky. I had a gorgeous Nikon and loved to play around making my own frankenstein-style cameras. I loved to take crazy mashup photos on film and then go...
View ArticleCNN/Motherboard Video!
The folks over at Motherboard remade this video and it's basically just me talking. It was recorded two years ago and it's nice to see that I'm still the same person, pretty much saying the same...
View ArticleArt Project: Important People
I really tried making a go of being an artist multiple times last decade. I'd quit my job, give it a go and try and make it work until I ran out of money. That didn't work and I got ended up making...
View ArticleSurvival Guide to a Hospital NICU
On July 8th, Kio Stark and I had a baby named Nika Stark Pettis at a hospital. We had been camped out there since Kio was on bedrest for about 6 weeks before the birth and Kio had the baby about 7...
View ArticleHackerSpaces: The Beginning (The Book)
Repost of my post on hackerspaces.org. In December of 2008, a group of hackers was sitting on the floor with faces aglow with laptop light cruising the internet and skyping friends in and listening to...
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