Anyone else watch Print the Legend on Netflix?
I haven’t. Would you recommend it?
tl;dr makerbot sucks and bre is a jerk.
Yeah, I enjoyed it more than I thought I would. Has very little information on the actual nuts and bolts of printing though.
Biggest take-away seemed to be that Bre Pettis is a piece of shit and everyone hates him. Which matches what I’ve already read about him.
I haven’t
Yeah, it does paint bre in a bad light, which I’m definitely not totally against for sure. There’s also a bit about formlabs in there, which was nice.
i kinda wish there was a REPRAP MOVIE
@LscsDesigns Well I can see that point of view if you were expecting a documentary about 3D printing, but it doesn’t claim to be that at all.
It’s about the 3D printing market, which for a long time was “MakerBot vs Everyone Else”, so it would have been pretty strange not to focus on them and Bre. But it would have been nice to see more post-MB info.
It depend how one covers the side betts. But impact to have more bio feed back.
@william_foster +1000000
It covers the inner workings of two companies, roughly 2013 time period. It’s interesting to watch but it’s more a movie about drama than anything else.
I’m surprised it ranks at nearly five stars.
@william_foster @Antonio_beta – Brook Drumm of Printrbot offered up the resources for that to happen - nobody took him up on it.
@ThantiK thats a real shame.
I thought it was really good. Sad to hear Brooke Drumm wasn’t included, but it’s still just a film, so they needed to choose the subjects they could focus heavily on. So they choose the most disruptive technologies/companies. I was entertained
I did, very limited in the scope of what could and should have been covered.
Filabot was in it for a second… When the Make magazine cover was shown
It gave me the depressing realization that startups are fucking bullshit. Why does someone start a startup? So they can sell out to a bigger company? Usually. To follow their ideals and make the world a better place? Sure, people think they’re doing that all the time but in the end the entire point is lost and everyone is crushed by capitalism and eventually the good guys are working for the other team.
The entire company was founded on the concept of open source. Makerbot’s Replicator was a bot that made other bots, that was the whole point. And through the virtues of open source, anyone could help develop the technology and contribute to the good of the whole, each iteration would be better than the last, the community would come together to try out each others ideas and improve upon them.
Now Makerbot is pretty much the antithesis of that. Everything is closed, they even take ownership of things independent designers upload to thingiverse. It’s so messed up 
I’m very torn about this movie, on one hand it’s fascinating and tells me things I want to know, on the other hand it crushes my soul and makes me want to abandon the idea of ever working at another startup.
Did Bre’s coif forget to die in the 70’s?
I think I see a bit of toilet paper stuck in his butt chin.