December 14, 2012
- The annual open house for How To Make (almost) Anything:
will be from 5:00-7:00 on Tuesday December 18, on the sixth floor of building E14:
Come see what the students in this expanded rapid-prototyping class have accomplished.
- Save the date – on March 7th CBA and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy will co-host a meeting at MIT on the science of digital fabrication. This will gather researchers, companies, and agencies to look beyond today's fabrication technologies to the fundamental questions of digitizing not just designs but also materials and manufacturing processes.
- Our work on reconfigurable robotics:
was featured on MIT's home page:
and widely covered:
- We're pleased to welcome Jeff Koons as CBA's newest sponsor:
We'll be working with him and his colleagues on developing workflows and processes for his demanding fabrication projects.
- Prof. Gershenfeld discusses how to make almost anything in the current issue of Foreign Affairs:
Last month he met in Glasgow with the growing network of UK&I fab labs:
after receiving an honorary degree from the University of Strathclyde:
- The new Moscow fab lab at MISiS:
designed and constructed a giant Buckyball to exhibit fab lab tools and processes at Open Innovations, Moscow's International Forum for Innovative Development in November. The exhibit was visited by President Putin, Prime Minister Medvedev and other prominent government and industry delegates:
Sherry Lassiter, Skylar Tibbits, and alum Max Lobovsky were featured panelists in a 3D printing session during the 3 day event:
- Formlabs, created by Max and colleagues, announced the Form 1 high-resolution consumer 3D printer:
- Presentations from FAB8 in New Zealand have been posted:
FAB9 will be in Japan next August. Stay tuned!
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