Thingscon Amsterdam 2015 - Nadya Peek

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

MIT Servomechanisms lab, 1952

Popular Science 1957

1M units/year, 10k CNCs

Making the all-new Mac Pro

NASA Ames, 2014

Runtime

Hardware-oriented start ups

Huaqiang Bei, Shenzhen

Hardware infrastructure

Huaqiang Bei, Shenzhen

Shanzhai

NASA Ames, 2014

Personal Fabrication in Fab Labs

Popfab: suitcase CNC

Gestalt library for virtual machine networks

Rapid Prototyping of Rapid Prototyping Machines

Object-oriented hardware meets object-oriented software

Wright brothers wind tunnel

A cardboard construction kit for machine building

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