Principles, applications and implications of digital fabrication
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Make something BIG!
Size matters in week nine, which means putting the Tiny micro controllers aside – we are to design, machine and assemble an object of large proportions; but what does big actually measure out to be ...
Ghosts and Bugs : Embedded Programming
What is it to be embedded? It is to be fixed firmly in a surrounding mass — a fossil is firmly embedded in a rock, academy students are firmly embedded into the Fab Lab environment ...
Bubbles in my OOMOO!
I am glad to say that there are no new acronyms to report the week. Only sticky situations and fun with rubber. However it will come as no surprise that the task once again was ...
Echo Hello World!
In the very first lecture of this 19 week series Niel Gershenfeld urged us to study and use the Spiral Model of development as a simple way to plan and organise our work flow. The ...
Which Atoms and Whose Bits?
3D printing is the zeitgeist of our time and it is constantly in the news; President Obama referred to it in this years State of the Union Address. It is often talked about in the ...
Assembling Acronyms
In their complexity, circuit boards have always seemed like miniature cities to me. With components springing out of the board like tower blocks, the tracing resembling a well-organised transport network. They are fascinating things; you ...
More than two dimensions
This week’s rapid fire introduction to computer controlled cutting was followed by access to machines with the gratifying ability to cut, burn, melt, evaporate and water-jet their way through a host of flat materials. The ...