Friday, August 24, 2007
Making Almost Anything
The range of Fab-able products I've seen this week has included key-chains, furniture, Lego blocks, boats and houses. Foe some insight into the latter, check out Larry Sass's project here: http://ddf.mit.edu/projects/CABIN/index.html. His ideas will meet up with the Mobile Fab Lab to make housing for New Orleans later this year.
I've been expressing my desire to use the Fab Lab to give folks an open door to unfettered possibility. That door really opened for me when I understood how the Lab can be used to design , fabricate and program circuit boards. Here's a short video showing the Modela machine printing out a circuit that we made this week...
I've been expressing my desire to use the Fab Lab to give folks an open door to unfettered possibility. That door really opened for me when I understood how the Lab can be used to design , fabricate and program circuit boards. Here's a short video showing the Modela machine printing out a circuit that we made this week...
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