The Pleasure Of Making Things

Bakhtiar Mikhak

Chris Lyon

Tim Gorton

Jeff Mellen

Learning Webs Group

Learning Webs Group, MIT Media Laboratory

Overview

GOAL Making it easy for a diverse group of people to design and make their own tools and applications

TOOLKITS Modular Electronics Development Environment Collaborative Modeling Environments Intuitive programmable design environments for

computer controlled fabrication tools

Learning Webs Group, MIT Media Laboratory

The Tower System: A Modular Electronics Development Environment

Learning Webs Group, MIT Media Laboratory

The Tower System: A Modular Electronics Development Environment

flexible, extensible rapid prototyping tool customizable, modular virtual machines use in a wide range of applications

process modeling personal fabrication International development architecture – building ip / ip everywhere prototyping learning tools and activities

use in education – powerful and inexpensive

Learning Webs Group, MIT Media Laboratory

The Rabbit Tower: A Modular Electronics Development Environment

a foundation with more ram and flash storage an ethernet port and tcp/ip stack

use in a wide range of applications tabletop networking embedded web services process modeling

USPS collaborationworkplace research

Learning Webs Group, MIT Media Laboratory

Tabletop Process Modeling Toolkit

Learning Webs Group, MIT Media Laboratory

Mailflow Model

canceler DBCS 971

DBCS 892

Man 040

ISS 841

other ops

DISPATCH

USPS Collaboration

Learning Webs Group, MIT Media Laboratory

Mailflow Model

canceler DBCS 971

DBCS 892

Man 040

ISS 841

other ops

DISPATCH

USPS Collaboration

Learning Webs Group, MIT Media Laboratory

Opportunity

Putting rapid prototyping tools, such as

Laser Cutters Milling Machines Lathes 3D Printing and Modeling embroidery machines

in the hands of a large group of non-traditional users

Learning Webs Group, MIT Media Laboratory

Example: Making Movies

Learning Webs Group, MIT Media Laboratory

Example: Movies and iMovie