how to make something that makes almost anything: machines
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How to make something that makes almost anything: Machines
Nadya Peek
February 2015
The next 3 charts are from Precision Manufacturing
D. Dornfeld and D. Lee, Springer, 2008
quoting Tanaguchi and Mckeown
for further readings, see class website
Machines are built
at some time
in some place
in some field
Pyrmont Bridge
Automobile Showroom, Montreal Canada
Chullora Aircraft Factory circa 1943
Vannevar Bush and the differential analyzer
Claude Shannon
Norbert Wiener
John von Neumann
Ernest O. Lawrence, Arthur H. Compton, Vannevar Bush,
James B. Conant, Karl T. Compton, and Alfred L. Loomis, 1940
Gerber Scientific Variable Scale, 1948
As we may think, Vannevar Bush 1948
Whirlwind computer, 1951
Whirlwind computer, 1951
Popular Mechanics 1952
Popular Science 1957
Ivan Sutherland, Sketchpad 1963
Sketchpad bolt, 1963
J.C.R. Licklider, DARPA/MIT
Douglas Engelbart, Mother of all demos, 1968
Dynabook, Goldberg and Kay, 1972
Stewart Brand’s Whole Earth Catalog
Xerox Alto, 1973
Apple II ad, 1982
A Cyborg Manifesto, Donna Haraway 1983
Chuck Hull, Stereolithography, 1984
Adrian Bowyer, Rep Rap project
Making machines that make machines
Computers for military applications >
Personal computers in the home
Computer controlled fabricataion for military applications >
Personal fabrication in the home
The following drawings are
from a pamphlet I made for
Maker Faire NYC 2013 with Ilan Moyer
Existing machines:
Time, Place, Field?
Milacron injection moulding
CT scanner, 1kW laser, wire EDM, 5-axis mill
Machines are becoming more affordable
which makes them more accessible
Previously, in MTM:
Jonathan Ward and the MTM A-Z
Ilan Moyer (with Max Lobovsky) and the MTM Multifab
Fab @ home
MTM Snap in the wild
MTM snap for Budapest
MTM Snap for Maharastra
MTM Black Mamba in Moscow
Iterations of MTMs in Moscow
ARCO Madrid ceiling, James Coleman
25-bit Friendship Loom, Ilan Moyer
24-bit Friendship Loom, Ilan Moyer
Assignment for next week:
Come up with an application and a capability
and list them on your class site.
Write a 100 word response to the week and post it on your class site
Journal club: to be worked out over email