ThingsCon 2015 Amsterdam

1. Things That Make Things:
Rapid prototyping of
rapid prototyping machines
Thingscon Amsterdam, December 2015
Nadya Peek, MIT Center for Bits and Atoms, peek@mit.edu

2. MIT Servomechanisms lab, 1952
See also Noble’s Forces of Production for an analysis of the rise of CNC.
Popular Science 1957

3. 1M units/year, 10k CNCs
Making the all-new Mac Pro

4. NASA Ames, 2014

5. Runtime

6. More hardware-oriented start ups

8. Also more hardware infrastructure startups

10. NASA Ames, 2014

11. Personal Fabrication in Fab Labs

12. Popfab: suitcase CNC

14. Gestalt library for virtual machine networks

15. Rapid Prototyping of Rapid Prototyping Machines

21. Object-oriented hardware meets object-oriented software

23. A cardboard construction kit for machine building

26. Things That Make Things:
Rapid prototyping of
rapid prototyping machines
Thingscon Amsterdam, December 2015
Nadya Peek, MIT Center for Bits and Atoms, peek@mit.edu