PechaKucha Night
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Pecha Kucha Night
Scratch space for assembling my March 31, 2010 presentation for Ottawa #2 - PechaKucha Night
Title
- Anatomy of a MakerBot
- A Brief History of Fabrication Made Personal
Possible Talking Points
OpenSource
Software origins
- Original UNIX - BSD
- Linux ecosystem
Licenses
- Proprietary
- GPL
- Creative Commons
Content Sites
- Flickr
- YouTube
- Thingiverse
- Instructables
- USPTO
- Museums and Science Centres
Hardware Foundations
- Arduino embedded computing platform.
- Off-shelf mechanical and motor parts.
Paying the Bills
- AdaFruit
- DIY Drones
- EMSL
- Lulu.com
- SparkFun
Value of Community
Forums, Wikis, Mailing Lists
- Source for new developments
- Heated Build Platform
- Replacement parts
- Improved extruder designs
- New materials
Design Flow
- 2D Software
- InkScape
- QCad
- 3D Software
- Google SketchUp
- Blender
- OpenSCAD
Services
- Ponoko
- 2D Laser-cut designs
- Cloth, wood, plastic, fabric, metal
- Shapeways
- 3D Printed designs
- Plastic, alumide, bronze-infused stainless steel
- Etsy
- Quickest way to set up shop.
- PayPal
- Buy and sell with a degree of separation from direct bank and credit card access.
Personal Fabrication
Technology shift from rapid prototyping with a view to mass production, to personal fabrication with some extra consumables thrown in Ikea-style.
Tired: Injection molding millions Wired: Rapid prototyping one.
How many other technologies sit neglected because they wouldn't scale to Industrial Revolution factory floors?
Rapid Prototyping
- The 'Mainframe' model
- Foundational patents expiring
- Follows the 2D printer model - proprietary inks/materials
RepRap Project
- Founding University project
- Machines that reproduce themselves from raw materials
- Challenge to source all parts locally
MakerBot Industries
- RepStrap kit
- Addresses challenge of pulling all the pieces together to build a functioning 3D printer
- Not unlike the original Apple Computer kit only based on OpenSource developments from the start.
- Used to make next generation RepRaps locally
Materials
- Recycling technology
- Bioplastics
- Open3DP
- ceramic
- glass powder
Models
- RepRap Wiki
- Thingiverse
HackerSpaces and FabLabs
- Using current tech in new ways and a-typical applications
- People who enjoy making things, sharing in the process.
ModLab at ArtEngine
- Small group of individuals gather every other week.
- Work on personal projects.
- Access to non-traditional tools
- MakerBot on order
- Long-term
- Laser cutter
- CNC mill
- Fusion of art and tech
Slides
Title Slide
Anatomy of a MakerBot - Slide 1
- APP_01
- Anatomy of a MakerBot
- A Brief History of Fabrication Made Personal