developments in 3d printing & experiments in the development of tools to cater local needs
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Neil Gershenfeld, Head of the Center for Bits and Atoms at MIT talks about his Fab Lab project and remote rural deployments to experiment the development of local tools relevant to local needs. There are pictures of the centre in Pabal based at Vigyan Ashram - an NGO that I am also associated with. V.A. was setup by Dr Srinath Kalbag, ex-DIrector Research of HLL - one of the largest Consumer Goods companies in the world.TRANSCRIPT
Prof. Neil GershenfeldDirector
http://cba.mit.edu/~neilg
NSF CCR-0122419
bits to atoms: building with logic
atoms to bits: programming with math
ThresholdsThresholdsThresholdsThresholds
noise
errors
1940s: Communications (Shannon)
1950s: Computation (Winograd, von Neumann)
2000s: Fabrication
nm
mm
μm
in out
m
How To MakeHow To Make(almost) Anything(almost) Anything
How To MakeHow To Make(almost) Anything(almost) Anything
The Liberal ArtsThe Liberal ArtsThe Liberal ArtsThe Liberal Arts
The Trivium• Grammar • Rhetoric • Logic
The Quadrivium• Arithmetic • Geometry • Music • Astronomy
The Illiberal Arts
cam.pycam.pycam.pycam.py
input: SVG, DXF (2D,3D), Gerber PCB, Excellon drill, JPG, TIFFoutput: G code, Roland mill & cutter, Omax waterjet, Epilog & Universal lasercutter,FEI focused ion beam, Haas machining center, Resonetics excimer micromachining
site.pysite.pysite.pysite.pyhttp://fab.cba.mit.edu
Diesel TimingDiesel TimingDiesel TimingDiesel Timing (Kalbag, Ike Chuang, Amy Sun, Anil Bahuman)
BithoorBithoorBithoorBithoor
CONVERT Java output
to dxf or bitmap
CONVERT Java output
to dxf or bitmap IMPORT
dxf to 2D Design
IMPORTdxf to 2D Design
MILL polystyrene mold with Modella
MILL polystyrene mold with Modella POUR and
CUREsilicon stamp
in oven
POUR and CURE
silicon stamp in oven
Nomadic DataNomadic DataNomadic DataNomadic Data
Lyngen Alps
(Haakon Karlson, Telenor, Manu Prakash)
fabrication, instrumentation divides
PCB,electromagnetics
3D scan/mill
analyticalinstrumentation
electronics
India
Norway
space (m), time (s)
Boston
Ghana, Costa Rica, ...
Fab Labs