Description: What if you could someday put the manufacturing power of an automobile plant on your desktop? It may sound far-fetched-but then, thirty years ago, the notion of ?personal computers” in every home sounded like science According to Neil Gershenfeld, the renowned MIT scientist and inventor, the next big thing is personal fabrication-the ability to design and produce your own products, in your own home, with a machine that combines consumer electronics with industrial Personal fabricators (PF’s) are about to revolutionize the world just as personal computers did a generation PF’s will bring the programmability of the digital world to the rest of the world, by being able to make almost anything-including new personal In FAB, Gershenfeld describes how personal fabrication is possible today, and how it is meeting local needs with locally developed He and his colleagues have created ?fab labs” around the world, which, in his words, can be interpreted to mean ?a lab for fabrication, or simply a fabulous Using the machines i...

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