To kick off the 20th year of SXSW Interactive, Bre Pettis, the co-founder of MakerBot (one of the leading companies in desktop 3-D printing), was selected to give the opening remarks. To call Pettis’s ...

Shoppers at the Emeryville Home Depot pushing carts laden with lumber and lightbulbs did doubletakes as they passed a 3-D printer churning out little plastic doodads. "This is amazing," said Luis ...

MakerBot has introduced the Method, which it deems the first "performance"-grade desktop 3D printer. Leveraging industrial 3D printing technologies developed by Makerbot's parent company, Stratasys, ...

Beleaguered 3D printing firm MakerBot is attempting to put to rest the string of upsets and bad news that has plagued them for the past few years. MakerBot announced its Method 3D printer, in a ...

Bre Pettis, the C.E.O. of MakerBot, often refers to 3D printing as “the future.” And if the company’s NoHo retail store was created as a place for people to “see, touch, feel, smell” that future, here ...

Bre Pettis’s MakerBot has attracted millions in financing and is selling its 3-D printers as fast as it can. In a culture with no widespread experience of 3-D printing–and thus no real way to gauge ...