Other sites by RABComm:

• Dorkbot Columbus
  
  
• Dorkbot Columbus blog
  
  
• We Are IT
  
  
• Ohio IT Plus
  
  
• PR Promotions (3-D messaging for your enterprise, project or cause)

The Next New Industry

Desktop Fabrication

Open Fabrication Platforms

• Fab@Home


• Video from Wall St. Journal, December 14, 2007
  


• RepRap
  
• Clanking Replicator Project

Wikipedia entries (exercises in definition)

• 3D Printing
• Desktop Manufacturing
• Digital Fabricator
• Solid Free-form Fabrication

Institutions

• MIT FabLab


• MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms


• Neil Gershenfeld at TED (2006), ~17:30 mins: The beckoning promise of personal fabrication
  


• MIT's Fabrication Laboratory Home Page


• Saul Griffith at TED (2006), ~15 mins: Hardware solutions to everyday problems
  

Rapid Prototyping Technology

• Low-Volume Manufacturers Association
• Rapid Manufacturing Research Group
• Rapid Prototyping Home Page
• TCT Magazine Online

Books / Links:

• Fab: The Coming Revolution on Your Desktop-from Personal Computers to Personal Fabrication, Neil Gershenfeld , 2005
• Fabbers.com - (OLD? - Last updated 2003)

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