[p2p-research] Fwd: Factor e Live - Distillations Part 6 - Personal Fabrication

[Michel Bauwens]

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From: Marcin Jakubowski <joseph.dolittle at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:38 PM
Subject: Factor e Live - Distillations Part 6 - Personal Fabrication
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Friends,


Today's Factor e Live Distillations focuses on Personal Fabrication. We
discuss our goals of establishing a robust and replicable, high-performance
flexible fabrication facility for producing just about anything - while
relying largely on local resources - and while participating as a producer
in a global market economy.

This post is a good overview of the type of tools that are already available
- today - and which could be put together into a high-power, digital
fabrication package - the *Open Source Fab Lab*. While the tools are already
available and significant development has already been done, their
integration into a meaningful productive ecology is the remaining task - in
terms of providing a useful toolset for Global Village construction. The
Personal Fabrication package is perhaps the most important piece of the
Global Village Construction Set - in that these tools are used to create
supporting hardware and machinery - for tasks ranging from agriculture to
wireless communications. We hope that this presentation will help you see
for yourself the kinds of applications and power that is already available
to anyone who chooses to use these tools, as a step towards taking advantage
of these tools. As was said about one particular example of the available
technologies - the 3D printer called RepRap - *"Think of RepRap as a China
on your desktop." - Chris DiBona, Open Source Programs Manager, Google Inc.,
8 April 2008. *
See video: http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?p=487

Marcin
Factoe e Farm
Home Team




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