The Pleasure Of Making Things

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The Pleasure Of Making Things

• Bakhtiar Mikhak
• Chris Lyon
• Tim Gorton
• Jeff Mellen
• Learning Webs Group

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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

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The Tower System A Modular Electronics
Development Environment
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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

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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 collaboration
• workplace research

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Tabletop Process Modeling Toolkit
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USPS Collaboration
Man 040
D I S P A T C H
Mailflow Model
ISS 841
DBCS 892
DBCS 971
canceler
other ops
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USPS Collaboration
Man 040
D I S P A T C H
Mailflow Model
ISS 841
DBCS 892
DBCS 971
canceler
other ops
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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

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Example Making Movies
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Example Movies and iMovie