1. Prof. Neil Gershenfeld Director NSF CCR-0122419
NSF CCR

3. bits to atoms: building with logic
atoms to bits: programming with math

4. Thresholds 1940s: Communications (Shannon) errors 1950s: Computation
noise
errors
1940s: Communications
(Shannon)
1950s: Computation
(Winograd, von Neumann)
2000s: Fabrication

5. in
out m mm μm nm

6. How To Make (almost) Anything

8. The Liberal Arts The Trivium Grammar Rhetoric Logic The Quadrivium
Arithmetic
Geometry
Music
Astronomy
The Illiberal Arts

10. cam.py input: SVG, DXF (2D,3D), Gerber PCB, Excellon drill, JPG, TIFF
output: G code, Roland mill & cutter, Omax waterjet, Epilog & Universal lasercutter,
FEI focused ion beam, Haas machining center, Resonetics excimer micromachining

11. site.py

14. (Kalbag, Ike Chuang, Amy Sun, Anil Bahuman)
Diesel Timing
(Kalbag, Ike Chuang, Amy Sun, Anil Bahuman)

15. Bithoor CONVERT Java output to dxf or bitmap IMPORT dxf to 2D Design
MILL polystyrene mold with Modella
POUR and CURE
silicon stamp in oven

19. (Haakon Karlson, Telenor, Manu Prakash)
Nomadic Data
(Haakon Karlson, Telenor, Manu Prakash)
Lyngen Alps

20. fabrication, instrumentation divides
Boston
Fab Labs
space (m), time (s)
fabrication, instrumentation divides
Ghana, Costa Rica, ...
India
Norway
electronics
3D scan/mill
PCB,
electromagnetics
analytical
instrumentation