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Personal Manufacturing

Posted June 19, 2008 8:26 AM

Looking to outsource the manufacture of your design? Why not fabricate it yourself? An item in Machine Design, entitled "Fab it Now," describes a personal fabricating system that "would make objects on-demand from computer-generated design specifications." All the ingredients are at hand, including open-source firmware and application source code. Can this be the future of manufacturing?

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06/25/2008 6:21 PM

I never have one shop do all my work. I spread it outr even to towns over 100 miles away to keep control who sees the whole design.

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