Things

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• 800-900 Breakfast
• 900-945 MIT briefings
• 945-1030 Partner briefings
• 1030-1100 Break
• 1100-1200 Planning

DC Fab Lab The National Academies May 29, 2003
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Prof. Neil Gershenfeld Director http//cba.mit.e
du/neilg NSF CCR-0122419
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The Center for Bits and Atoms
NSF CCR-0122419 http//cba.mit.edu
Joseph Jacobson, Scott Manalis, Isaac Chuang,
Neil Gershenfeld, Marvin Minsky, Cynthia Braezeal
(Media Lab), Joe Paradiso (Media Lab), Sandy
Pentland (Media Lab), Mitch Resnick (Media Lab),
Kim Hamad-Schifferli (Mechanical
Engineering), Seth Lloyd (Mechanical
Engineering), Martin Schmidt (Microsystems
Technology Laboratory), Larry Sass
(Architecture), Tim Swager (Chemistry), Alex
Slocum (Mechanics Engineering), Rahul Sarpeshkar
(Electrical Engineering and Computer Science),
Shuguang Zhang (Bioengineering), Sebastian Seung
(Brain and Cognitive Science, Physics), Bill
Butera (IC design/fab), Karen Sollins (Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science), Bakhtiar
Mikhak (Education/Outreach), Sherry Lassiter
(Program Manager), John DiFrancesco
(Macrofabrication), Ashley Salomon
(Microfabrication) Peter Shor, Ruzena Bajcsy,
John Doyle, Barrie Gilbert, Alan Huang, Greg
Papadopoulus, Nathan Myhrvold,
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Bits and AtomsGrand Challenges
How can logical function be embodied in physical
form?
How can logical function be abstracted from
physical form?
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Bits and AtomsGrand Challenges
How can logical function be embodied in physical
form?
computational assembly
RF biology
programmable design
personal fabrication
How can logical function be abstracted from
physical form?
quantum computing
analog logic
silicon biology
statistical-mechanical engineering
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MicroencapsulatedElectropheresis
B. Comiskey, J.D. Albert, H. Yoshizawa and J.
Jacobson An Electrophoretic Ink for
All-Printed Reflective Electronic Displays
Nature (394), 253-5 (1998)
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Nanotectics
Brent Ridley, Babak Nivi, and Joseph
Jacobson, All-Inorganic Field Effect Transistors
Fabricated by Printing, Science (286) 746, 1999
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Printed Memory
(Brian Hubert)
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3D Inkjet Printing
(Joe Jacobson)
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Printed Electro-Mechanical Systems
MEMS (1B, 1m) vs PEMS (1k, 1mm)
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How To Make(almost) Anything
How To Make Something That Makes (almost) Anything
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ScreamBody
(Kelly Dobson)
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Interpet Explorer
(Irene Pepperberg, Ben Resner)
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Personal Toy Fabrication
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The Liberal Arts
Literacy

• The Trivium
• Grammar
• Rhetoric
• Logic
• The Quadrivium
• Arithmetic
• Geometry
• Music
• Astronomy

Liberation, Mastery
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CBA Fab Labs
Boston
(Bakhtiar Mikhak)
fabrication, instrumentation divides
Costa Rica
India
modular electronics
3D scan/mill
Norway
PCB fab
analytical instrumentation
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Vigyan Ashram
(Kalbag)
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Diesel Timing
(Kalbag, Ike Chuang, Amy Sun, Anil Bahuman)
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Internet Power
(Raffi Krikorian, Sarit Guha Thakurta, CEA)

• Inductive power
• Inductive measurement
• Powerline comm.
• Internet 0
• 5 parts
• 100 kbps

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Milk Questions

• Fat content
• is the price fair?
• Water content
• is it diluted?
• Bacteria
• is it safe?
• Solids
• is it milk?

(Esa Masood, Rich Fletcher)
Complex Impedance measurement
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Appropriate Optical Spectroscopy
(Caroline McEnnis, Jason Taylor, Debu Goswami)
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Biometrics to Protect People
(Chattisgarh)
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Debugging
(Delhi Clubhouse, Mitch Resnick)
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The Tower
(Bakhtiar Mikhak, Chris Lyon)

• NC mill
• oscilloscope
• Net computer

• microcontroller
• A/D
• high-speed A/D
• keyboard
• camera
• SRAM

• FLASH
• DC motor
• servo motor
• solenoid
• LEDs
• LCD

• MIDI
• audio
• RS-232
• RS-485
• Tower bus
• I2C

• USART
• USB
• ethernet
• 802.11b
• protoboard
• clock

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Bithoor
CONVERT Java output to dxf or bitmap
IMPORT dxf to 2D Design
MILL polystyrene mold with Modella
POUR and CURE silicon stamp in oven
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Materials andMechanisms ForGrass-RootsInvention
(Anil Gupta, SRISTI, NIF)

• welding net-shape manufacturing with composites
• molding thermal control with phase-change
  materials
• gearing self-lubricating polymer fillers
• compressing ceramic surface growth
• sealing elastomer structural additives
• energy bullock cart generator, train/truck
  windmill

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Open SourceHardware, Software Design
circuits Orcad microcircuits Cadence mechanical
I-DEAS toolpath Featurecam fields ANSYS low
frequency Spice high frequency FEMLAB ...
Python, GL,
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http//cba.mit.edu/projects/fablab
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http//www.thinkcycle.org
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Electronic Shepherd
(Haakon Karlson, Solvik Gård, Telenor)
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Solvik Gård
(Haakon Karlson, Telenor, UPM-Kymmene)
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CommodityIncrementalInfrastructure
BAWUG, OpenAP, mesh routing 1-200/hop
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Sadbhavana
(Lt. Gen. Arjun Ray, ret.)
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To Follow Up
Cambridge Series on Information and the Natural
Sciences
Henry Holt and Company
http//cba.mit.edu/neilg
gersh_at_cba.mit.edu