Matthew Bernhardt, Web Developer, MIT Libraries
| Jan/14 | Tue | 01:00PM-02:30PM | 56-114 |
Enrollment: Please register: http://libcal.mit.edu/event.php?id=489770
Limited to 60 participants
Digital fabrication has changed considerably over the last few decades. Barriers to use have fallen, and technologies that were once the purview of specialized researchers are now sold in retail outlets like Sears, Staples and the Microsoft store. Schools and libraries have even begun getting into the act, from NC State to the Chicago Public Library.
Applications include producing prosthetic hands for accident victims, manufacturing replacement parts for hard-to-source components, or even mapping word frequency across the history of a given journal and printing time series histograms.
But what about here at MIT?
This session will discuss the range of fabrication technologies now available, as well as those available at MIT, for sale, for rent, and (for a limited time, experimentally) through the Libraries—as part of this session, the Libraries have acquired a MakerBot Replicator 2 that is capable of producing objects in PLA plastic!
Plus, participants will have the opportunity to see a 3D-printer in action and even design their own objects—submit a printable file, generated by the free MakerWare software, by Thursday, January 10th. Up to five submissions will be selected for production before the discussion (provided the designs are producible!).
(Hint: You can try turning a photo into a 3D model with 123D Catch.)
Please register for this session.
Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Randi Shapiro, (617) 324-4988, shapiror@mit.edu