I’m going to talk to you today about
creating without limits and I want you
to understand that this is something
that I’m passionate about and I’m going
to be completely transparent with you
it’s something that has become that’s
where a laugh comes it’s it’s something
that has become so ingrained in what I
do that this has now become my job so my
job is is essentially creating without
limits okay that didn’t land so so a lot
of my memories revolve around creating
things and making things anybody here
have a memory the favorite memory of
making something when you were a kid
yeah right okay so for me one of the
things that I remember was my
grandparents had come back from a trip
and they brought me a model of a 1909
Renault and ugly car but it was a really
cool mom and I was like five or six and
I just started building it and I got
finished and my mother said how did you
do that the instructions are in French
and I said I don’t know it just looked
like the pieces needed to go together to
me the fun was making it my mother also
had a cousin who to me was like the
coolest thing since Hot Wheels cars this
was an adult who built models like an
adult he took the time to paint them and
detail them and and the eyeballs on the
pilots and the dials on the instrument
panels and the thing that I like the
best is when he would show me how he did
those things and I was hooked I mean I
just was amazed at how you could take
this pile of plastic and turn it into
something that represented real life so
that really was kind of formative for me
found out later on that he had been a
World War 2
that are in in the Pacific Theater and
so he had a first-hand knowledge of
these planes that he built and so while
he was in the city he lived in New York
and as you can tell him from New York
his work was displayed on the USS
Intrepid aircraft carrier Air Space
Museum and I just thought that was neat
that he was somebody who had a passion
for creating and used that passion to
share with others and again I think that
his teaching me how to do things pushed
me beyond a limit okay so every time I
would make something whether it was
planes and models in this case or
anything when I would exceed a limit of
my capability that was the joy and that
was what really got me on the path to
wanting to do that for a career that’s
like I want to make things that’s what
I’m gonna do so getting back to the
point of my talk which is creating
without limits okay we have to first
look at how creativity and how creating
has changed through the ages so let’s
take the really simple concept of
cutting okay that’s something that’s
kind of important to making things
whether you’re cutting a tree to make
lumber or you’re cutting the lumber to
make something that doesn’t look like a
lumber anymore or whatever those pieces
have to fit together so cutting is kind
of a big deal so about 2.8 million years
ago there’s evidence that says those old
cavemen they used axes and hammers and
they also needed things to cut with and
most likely it was cutting their food
but it was still something that they had
transformed from one through another
somebody had a great idea of putting a
handle out of bone or wood on these
stone things so now the hand it was much
more user friendly in the 1600s they
started using what’s called a pit
song so they would take a big pit drop a
tree over it and these guys would stand
on one side the higher end and one guy
would get in the pit and they would saw
logs that’s how they would do that
before sawmills so I’m really thinking
that this is where the expression this
is the pits
came from because you didn’t want to be
that guy in the pit but I have
absolutely no proof that that is where
that saying comes from but that’s I’m
sticking to it anyway so in 1777 a guy
named Samuel got a patent he got the
first patent on a circular saw blade but
it wasn’t until 1813 when Tabitha
Babbitt turned that circular saw into
something representing the table saw
that we now know she was a shaker so she
could not patent that design and a
couple of years later some people picked
up that information and went ahead and
patented so why am I talking about all
this stuff you think about the way
cutting that simple operation that’s
involved in so many things that we make
evolved because of a technical aaja chol
limit that was exceeded now we have CNC
machine C and C stands for computer
numerical control that actually was
developed in the 1940s believe it or not
and the first machines were punched tape
operated so they would basically take a
a motor with a cutter head on it and
move it from one point to another
because of the scene of the
computer-controlled information now you
can’t come in contact with just about
any product this mass-produced that
doesn’t have some type of CNC operation
involved in its making so again the
possibilities of what could be created
were achieved because limits were
exceeded all right so I stopped it to
just tell you real quick I went to
college in Philadelphia
it’s called Philadelphia College
graduated in 1982 and back then there
were no such things as desktop computers
really aging myself and and CAD stations
were just starting to come into fruition
so the engineers had them the wood guys
did not have the luxury so when we
wanted to draw a chair we would take a
piece of paper tape it up on the wall
and your limit was the size of the paper
and sometimes you ran off the paper onto
the wall teachers weren’t that thrilled
about it but you had to do what you had
to do and what you would do is you draw
a front view side view top view and then
hopefully when you started cutting wood
all those views would mesh and it would
be great and you’d have a perfect thing
and then you would also see your limits
as to whether or not you could really
draw that by hand and get all those
pieces of geometry to line up when
computers and CAD stations became a
thing you now could take a drawing and
build every single part and that’s
really how things are manufactured today
most I mean I work with a lot of
furniture companies and there’s a lot of
furniture people in here I’m sure most
everything is designed in 3d now and so
that three dimensional geometry helps to
show the parts and helps to show how
that thing should be built but it also
gives you the side benefit now if you’ve
got this three-dimensional thing you can
do other stuff with it in in the picture
you see in there you can take that
geometry and you know this you can apply
light to it and texture and and patterns
and make it look like the real thing
so that 3d visualization has also pushed
our limit okay so our limits have are
constantly being exceeded because of the
technological advances that we have a
lot of you are familiar with 3d printing
so I’m not going to go into the details
if I was talking to cutting some guys
before us if you want to be bored to
death about 3d printing see me after
this but the bottom line is what drives
these kinds of machines is that digital
geometry the
I was just talking about so you draw
something in 3d and now you can hold it
in your hand in a matter of hours talk
about blowing past a limit right you can
start thinking about things and go right
to your computer if you’re fluent enough
and start drawing something and hold it
in your hand and in you know no time it
whether it’s a piece of furniture or an
electronic component or and when I say a
piece of furniture on talking scale
models my machines aren’t large enough
to actually build pieces of furniture
but I’ve been asked to do that but
whatever it is this that you’re looking
at right here is a it’s an award for
believe it or not there is a thing
called the American beatbox championship
and American beatbox is the company that
I worked for last year and created this
award and now I’m working again for him
this year on their revised Awards and
essentially this was created on the
computer 3d printed gold-leafed talk
about a lot of work but the thing is
whatever you can come up with you can
now have and and that is limit breaking
okay so I’m working with a gentleman
right now who’s an inventor and this guy
he said it’s not an official title but
he’s a micro electronics engineer so the
things that he designs are tiny but
they’re used in useful operations he
wanted to build a device that all I can
really say about it because its
proprietary it’s a counter but if you
look at this picture that shows the
actual parts there there’s a ruler and
those are 30 seconds of an inch so the
pieces between those disks are about two
millimeters across the photograph on the
bottom left is through a microscope
looking at those pieces and those tiny
little layer lines
are about 20 microns 25 microns microns
like you know that’s about the size of
your hair the image above is how that
geometry started off as a CAD model this
guy was told you can’t make something
that small and have it work on a 3d
printer and he went around to people and
they kind of reinforced that we hooked
up and he he asked me about this and I
said wow that’s really cool I would love
to try that I have a machine that I
think could do that kind of thing and
this is in comparison to ad I’m showing
you how small this device is that the
big photo of the gear that year fits
inside that device so you see the
resolution of those gear teeth who says
we can’t do it what we did it man and
and the thing is where is this going to
be next what’s the next thing that
creativity beyond limits is going to
take us to you know what where are we
now what we’re you know 3d printing arms
we’re three deep imprinting cells so
what I would just challenge you to think
about is this technology’s available I
mean you could you could drive by
somebody’s house and not realize that
just some guy has a garage full of 3d
printers you know and that means
manufacturing can be happening
everywhere and so that’s what I want to
challenge you it’s just what is next
what’s going to happen next in this
world that we live in as far as 3d
printing as far as just creating beyond
limits
[Applause] you
creating without limits and I want you
to understand that this is something
that I’m passionate about and I’m going
to be completely transparent with you
it’s something that has become that’s
where a laugh comes it’s it’s something
that has become so ingrained in what I
do that this has now become my job so my
job is is essentially creating without
limits okay that didn’t land so so a lot
of my memories revolve around creating
things and making things anybody here
have a memory the favorite memory of
making something when you were a kid
yeah right okay so for me one of the
things that I remember was my
grandparents had come back from a trip
and they brought me a model of a 1909
Renault and ugly car but it was a really
cool mom and I was like five or six and
I just started building it and I got
finished and my mother said how did you
do that the instructions are in French
and I said I don’t know it just looked
like the pieces needed to go together to
me the fun was making it my mother also
had a cousin who to me was like the
coolest thing since Hot Wheels cars this
was an adult who built models like an
adult he took the time to paint them and
detail them and and the eyeballs on the
pilots and the dials on the instrument
panels and the thing that I like the
best is when he would show me how he did
those things and I was hooked I mean I
just was amazed at how you could take
this pile of plastic and turn it into
something that represented real life so
that really was kind of formative for me
found out later on that he had been a
World War 2
that are in in the Pacific Theater and
so he had a first-hand knowledge of
these planes that he built and so while
he was in the city he lived in New York
and as you can tell him from New York
his work was displayed on the USS
Intrepid aircraft carrier Air Space
Museum and I just thought that was neat
that he was somebody who had a passion
for creating and used that passion to
share with others and again I think that
his teaching me how to do things pushed
me beyond a limit okay so every time I
would make something whether it was
planes and models in this case or
anything when I would exceed a limit of
my capability that was the joy and that
was what really got me on the path to
wanting to do that for a career that’s
like I want to make things that’s what
I’m gonna do so getting back to the
point of my talk which is creating
without limits okay we have to first
look at how creativity and how creating
has changed through the ages so let’s
take the really simple concept of
cutting okay that’s something that’s
kind of important to making things
whether you’re cutting a tree to make
lumber or you’re cutting the lumber to
make something that doesn’t look like a
lumber anymore or whatever those pieces
have to fit together so cutting is kind
of a big deal so about 2.8 million years
ago there’s evidence that says those old
cavemen they used axes and hammers and
they also needed things to cut with and
most likely it was cutting their food
but it was still something that they had
transformed from one through another
somebody had a great idea of putting a
handle out of bone or wood on these
stone things so now the hand it was much
more user friendly in the 1600s they
started using what’s called a pit
song so they would take a big pit drop a
tree over it and these guys would stand
on one side the higher end and one guy
would get in the pit and they would saw
logs that’s how they would do that
before sawmills so I’m really thinking
that this is where the expression this
is the pits
came from because you didn’t want to be
that guy in the pit but I have
absolutely no proof that that is where
that saying comes from but that’s I’m
sticking to it anyway so in 1777 a guy
named Samuel got a patent he got the
first patent on a circular saw blade but
it wasn’t until 1813 when Tabitha
Babbitt turned that circular saw into
something representing the table saw
that we now know she was a shaker so she
could not patent that design and a
couple of years later some people picked
up that information and went ahead and
patented so why am I talking about all
this stuff you think about the way
cutting that simple operation that’s
involved in so many things that we make
evolved because of a technical aaja chol
limit that was exceeded now we have CNC
machine C and C stands for computer
numerical control that actually was
developed in the 1940s believe it or not
and the first machines were punched tape
operated so they would basically take a
a motor with a cutter head on it and
move it from one point to another
because of the scene of the
computer-controlled information now you
can’t come in contact with just about
any product this mass-produced that
doesn’t have some type of CNC operation
involved in its making so again the
possibilities of what could be created
were achieved because limits were
exceeded all right so I stopped it to
just tell you real quick I went to
college in Philadelphia
it’s called Philadelphia College
graduated in 1982 and back then there
were no such things as desktop computers
really aging myself and and CAD stations
were just starting to come into fruition
so the engineers had them the wood guys
did not have the luxury so when we
wanted to draw a chair we would take a
piece of paper tape it up on the wall
and your limit was the size of the paper
and sometimes you ran off the paper onto
the wall teachers weren’t that thrilled
about it but you had to do what you had
to do and what you would do is you draw
a front view side view top view and then
hopefully when you started cutting wood
all those views would mesh and it would
be great and you’d have a perfect thing
and then you would also see your limits
as to whether or not you could really
draw that by hand and get all those
pieces of geometry to line up when
computers and CAD stations became a
thing you now could take a drawing and
build every single part and that’s
really how things are manufactured today
most I mean I work with a lot of
furniture companies and there’s a lot of
furniture people in here I’m sure most
everything is designed in 3d now and so
that three dimensional geometry helps to
show the parts and helps to show how
that thing should be built but it also
gives you the side benefit now if you’ve
got this three-dimensional thing you can
do other stuff with it in in the picture
you see in there you can take that
geometry and you know this you can apply
light to it and texture and and patterns
and make it look like the real thing
so that 3d visualization has also pushed
our limit okay so our limits have are
constantly being exceeded because of the
technological advances that we have a
lot of you are familiar with 3d printing
so I’m not going to go into the details
if I was talking to cutting some guys
before us if you want to be bored to
death about 3d printing see me after
this but the bottom line is what drives
these kinds of machines is that digital
geometry the
I was just talking about so you draw
something in 3d and now you can hold it
in your hand in a matter of hours talk
about blowing past a limit right you can
start thinking about things and go right
to your computer if you’re fluent enough
and start drawing something and hold it
in your hand and in you know no time it
whether it’s a piece of furniture or an
electronic component or and when I say a
piece of furniture on talking scale
models my machines aren’t large enough
to actually build pieces of furniture
but I’ve been asked to do that but
whatever it is this that you’re looking
at right here is a it’s an award for
believe it or not there is a thing
called the American beatbox championship
and American beatbox is the company that
I worked for last year and created this
award and now I’m working again for him
this year on their revised Awards and
essentially this was created on the
computer 3d printed gold-leafed talk
about a lot of work but the thing is
whatever you can come up with you can
now have and and that is limit breaking
okay so I’m working with a gentleman
right now who’s an inventor and this guy
he said it’s not an official title but
he’s a micro electronics engineer so the
things that he designs are tiny but
they’re used in useful operations he
wanted to build a device that all I can
really say about it because its
proprietary it’s a counter but if you
look at this picture that shows the
actual parts there there’s a ruler and
those are 30 seconds of an inch so the
pieces between those disks are about two
millimeters across the photograph on the
bottom left is through a microscope
looking at those pieces and those tiny
little layer lines
are about 20 microns 25 microns microns
like you know that’s about the size of
your hair the image above is how that
geometry started off as a CAD model this
guy was told you can’t make something
that small and have it work on a 3d
printer and he went around to people and
they kind of reinforced that we hooked
up and he he asked me about this and I
said wow that’s really cool I would love
to try that I have a machine that I
think could do that kind of thing and
this is in comparison to ad I’m showing
you how small this device is that the
big photo of the gear that year fits
inside that device so you see the
resolution of those gear teeth who says
we can’t do it what we did it man and
and the thing is where is this going to
be next what’s the next thing that
creativity beyond limits is going to
take us to you know what where are we
now what we’re you know 3d printing arms
we’re three deep imprinting cells so
what I would just challenge you to think
about is this technology’s available I
mean you could you could drive by
somebody’s house and not realize that
just some guy has a garage full of 3d
printers you know and that means
manufacturing can be happening
everywhere and so that’s what I want to
challenge you it’s just what is next
what’s going to happen next in this
world that we live in as far as 3d
printing as far as just creating beyond
limits
[Applause] you
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