Keyword: Fabber / Rapid Prototyping

Rapid Prototyping is the more official term

• Fabbers are universal fabrication machines

  • Materialize three-dimensional things from digital data

  • Typically by "baking" some amorphous, fine-grained material

    Allow for constructing things which are difficult to create otherwise

  • Actually exist

    Today: Mostly used for building models

• Fabbers have some interesting features

  • Link digital data and material world closely

    Bringing the logic of digital data to the material world

  • Universal for (parts of) material production

    Like computers for information: "One machine to rule them all"

  • Allow material production for individual needs

• Industrial robots are equally interesting

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