Digital Materials and Fabrication

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Digital Materials and Fabrication
MIT Media Lab
George A. Popescu Prof. Neil Gershenfeld
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Existing Research
2D
Programmable Assembly Saul Griffith
2D Algorithmic Assembly Paul Rothemund et al.
3D
Folding Kenneth Cheung
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Digital Materials
GIK
Cut in 2D Assembled in 3D Space filling
voxels Press fit reversible Multiscale
Multimaterials
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Tuneable materials

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Active Materials
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GIK Assembler
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MIT Class MAS 960

• Builder universal gt 3 axis motion platform
  (analog/analog)?
• scalable small lt-gt large
• compatible with additive and subtractive
  processes
• David Dalrymple, Kenny Cheung, Dimitris
  Papanikolau
• Printer part printer (digital/analog)?
• Mariana Baca, Ara Kanaian
• Assembler GIK assembler (digital/digital)?
• George Popescu, Luis Lafuente, Alexander
  Shpunt
• George

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Builder

• It moves a tool relative to a part that's being
  constructed
• gt 3 axes ( Sawyer motor)?

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Printer(Ara Knaian, Mariana Baca)?
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Virtual Machines (Luis Lafuente Molinero)?