The following are excerpts from a primer by Smari McCarthy of FabLabs, on making things controlled by a computer, and how this can be used in the whole world, to leapfrog development. Introduction: “Digital fabrication technologies are rapidly coming into existence. With projects such as MIT’s Fab Labs and RepRap and Flex Fab Multimachine, the… Continue reading
Date archives "November 2007"
An update on Digital Fabrication: resource overview
Smári McCarthy, one of the pioneers of the personal fabrication movement, has given us an update on the state of the project. Here it is: “The idea is to make almost everything. In the short term that means taking existing technology for personal fabrication and rapid prototyping and deploying it as far and wide as… Continue reading
Investigating participatory epistemologies: towards inclusional research
Alan Rayner, along with an impressive crew of participants, has launched a website devoted to an in-depth investigation of participatory forms of knowing, which he calls inclusionality, and is opposted to the isolationist effect of pure objectivist views, which sees objects as separate from their invisible environments: “A new public forum and website was launched… Continue reading