Design Machines! Rapid Prototyping of Rapid Prototyping
NADYA PEEK, MIT CENTER FOR BITS AND ATOMS
NADYA PEEK, MIT CENTER FOR BITS AND ATOMS
OCTOBER 21, 2015
4:30—5:20 P.M.
241 MARY GATES HALL
4:30—5:20 P.M.
241 MARY GATES HALL
Digital
fabrication has made it easy to rapidly prototype anything on demand in
quantities of one. But what about producing a small run, with
quantities of 100 or 1000? What if we don't want prototypes, but want a
few high-tech products? Not yet at a scale where mass production makes
sense, low volume production remains limited to markets where cost is
less of a factor (e.g. military) or complexity is limited (e.g.
handiwork and crafts). How can we make low-volume advanced manufacturing
more accessible?
Rapid-prototyping
of rapid-prototyping machines enables the precision and complexity of
automation in production without the overhead of automation in
mass-production. Nadya Peek builds many custom machines, but more
importantly, machine building blocks and infrastructure to help anyone
go forth and design machines.
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About Nadya Peek
Nadya
Peek is a PhD student at the MIT Center for Bits and Atoms, a group at
the intersection of the physical and the digital. She works on
unconventional digital fabrication tools, small scale automation,
networked control systems, and advanced manufacturing, and is currently
teaching the MIT class "How to make something that makes (almost)
anything." Nadya is an active member of the global fablab community,
working on making digital fabrication more accessible with better
CAD/CAM tools and developing open source (hardware) machines and control
systems. Previously, she was an editor at Mediamatic in Amsterdam.
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