Fabulous DIY Fabbing Site
Posted Thursday, November 2nd, 2006, at 12:07 pm Eastern by Mark Wallace
Tags: design, fabrication
More fabulous fabbing stuff comes our way this morning, this time via KnowProSE, which links to a wiki called Fab@Home. We’ll overlook Fab@Home’s desperate need for a better URL for the moment and instead concentrate on the fact that the site is basically a kind of Anarchist Cookbook for those who want to get their own fabbing operation going. There’s a longer description on the site, but one sentence says it all: “This website provides an open source kit that lets you make your own simple fabber, and use it to print three dimensional objects.” Awesome. Get to work.
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Gee. I thought you visited my blog on occasion, Mark. Oh well.
btw, there’s another nice fabber in the works out there; I’ve just not had time to post anything on it yet.
I do, csven, I do. But I miss days here and there, there are just too many blogs I read to be able to keep up with what every single one has posted on every single day. For instance, I apprently missed this post of yours where you mention Fab@Home. It happens.
You missed the Front “drawn furniture” post too. I’m feeling neglected here, baby. Where’s the love? Where’s the LOVE?
[…] I blogged the DIY fabrication kit made available by Fab@Home back in November, but it’s getting a new round of press, so it seems a good thing to flag again. The New Scientist has an article [spotted via Virtual Worldlets] about the do-it-yourself kit, which drops the price of a fabber from the $20,000 to $1.5 million range, down to about $2,400. ‘Full documentation on how to build and operate the machine, along with all the software required, are available on the Fab@Home website, and all designs, documents and software have been released for free,’ as the New Scientist notes. The Fab@Home site has also been updated with some cool movies and galleries, and a small community of DIY fabbers is beginning to develop via the site’s guest book. As I urged in November: get to work. Also: Is anyone using one of these things to fab items they’ve designed in a virtual world? Let us know. […]