The Pleasure Of Making Things Bakhtiar Mikhak Chris
The Pleasure Of Making Things Bakhtiar Mikhak Chris Lyon Tim Gorton Jeff Mellen Learning Webs Group, MIT Media Laboratory
Overview GOAL Making it easy for a diverse group of people to design and make their own tools and applications TOOLKITS ¢ ¢ ¢ Modular Electronics Development Environment Collaborative Modeling Environments Intuitive programmable design environments for computer controlled fabrication tools Learning Webs Group, MIT Media Laboratory
The Tower System: A Modular Electronics Development Environment Learning Webs Group, MIT Media Laboratory
The Tower System: A Modular Electronics Development Environment ¢ ¢ flexible, extensible rapid prototyping tool customizable, modular virtual machines use in a wide range of applications ¢ process modeling ¢ personal fabrication ¢ International development ¢ architecture – building ip / ip everywhere ¢ prototyping learning tools and activities use in education – powerful and inexpensive Learning Webs Group, MIT Media Laboratory
The Rabbit Tower: A Modular Electronics Development Environment ¢ a foundation with ¢ ¢ ¢ more ram and flash storage an ethernet port and tcp/ip stack use in a wide range of applications ¢ tabletop networking ¢ embedded web services ¢ process modeling ¢ USPS collaboration ¢ workplace research Learning Webs Group, MIT Media Laboratory
Tabletop Process Modeling Toolkit Learning Webs Group, MIT Media Laboratory
USPS Collaboration Man 040 Mailflow Model ISS 841 DBCS 892 canceler DBCS 971 other ops D I S P A T C H Learning Webs Group, MIT Media Laboratory
USPS Collaboration Man 040 Mailflow Model ISS 841 DBCS 892 canceler DBCS 971 other ops D I S P A T C H Learning Webs Group, MIT Media Laboratory
Opportunity Putting rapid prototyping tools, such as ¢ ¢ ¢ Laser Cutters Milling Machines Lathes 3 D Printing and Modeling embroidery machines in the hands of a large group of non-traditional users Learning Webs Group, MIT Media Laboratory
Example: Making Movies Learning Webs Group, MIT Media Laboratory
Example: Movies and i. Movie Learning Webs Group, MIT Media Laboratory
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