Entries from Open the Future tagged with 'Fabrication'
New FC: Material Issues
My new column for Fast Company is now up. The Desktop Manufacturing Revolution looks at the possible impact of 3D printing, which seems to be on the verge of the same breakthrough we saw 25 years ago with desktop publishing....
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Posted by Jamais Cascio on July 14, 2009 1:11 PM
Long Tail Micro-Drones
$25 Arduino-based UAV Controller Our first commercial autopilot, the Arduino-compatible ArduPilot, has been released and our goal of taking an order or two of magnitude out of the cost of an autopilot has been achieved: it's $24.95! Combined with a...
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Posted by Jamais Cascio on February 5, 2009 11:59 AM
Tuesday Topsight, September 30, 2008
New site logo -- what do you think? • Spam spam spam spam: C Sven Johnson has a post up today at Futurismic that's definitely worth a look: When 3D Spam Got Old. It actually takes place in the Superstruct...
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Posted by Jamais Cascio on September 30, 2008 4:32 PM
3D Print-to-Order
Whenever I talk about the rise of low-cost 3D fabrication, one inevitable question (after "how expensive is a printer?") is "does anyone do print-on-demand fabbing?" Real soon now, the answer will be yes. (Update: As Sven notes in the...
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Posted by Jamais Cascio on July 22, 2008 3:38 PM
Molecular Rights Management
I'll have more to say about this soon, but I just want to toss the idea out to the noösphere and make it visible. Molecular Rights Management refers to the panoply of technologies employed to prevent the unrestricted reproduction of...
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Posted by Jamais Cascio on September 27, 2007 2:43 PM
The Future Feels a Little Bit Closer
I write often enough about 3D printing systems and "desktop fabrication" that when something that I shouldn't be startled by just how fast this industry is advancing. And yet: the ZPrinter 450 looks just amazing. The promotional video is almost...
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Posted by Jamais Cascio on March 28, 2007 5:21 PM
RoboFactory
(Cue "Powerhouse," by Raymond Scott) Nanofabbers are on my mind right now. They've shown up in some work I'm doing with IFTF; they're the focus of a project underway with CRN; and they're one of the manifestations of the "software...
Posted by Jamais Cascio on January 4, 2007 5:20 PM
End-User License Agreement, StuffStation Deluxe
BY CLICKING "I AGREE" YOU ACCEPT THE PROVISIONS OF THIS LICENSE. I will not use this product (STUFFSTATION DELUXE) to build, repair, or in any way constitute weapons of mass destruction; I will not use this product (STUFFSTATION DELUXE) to...
Posted by Jamais Cascio on December 20, 2006 11:41 AM
The Future is Here: The Wonkafabber
Okay, it's not Wonka, but still: it's a fabber used to make chocolate bars! High school student Noy Schaal used the Fab@Home system design to make a fabber that could print out chocolate bars, including fancy textures. It's crude, but...
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Posted by Jamais Cascio on December 15, 2006 3:55 PM
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