Introduction

This new section is dedicated to Open Manufacturing developments, making it easier to identify interests in creating physical objects. This is a smaller subset of our much broader section on Open and Shared Design Communities.

Key Resources

Discussion

Open Manufacturing: The Social Implementation of Open Manufacturing & Distribution Techniques

Overview

Advanced Civilisation is a site founded by Charles Collis to introduce current and developing states of Open and Distributed Manufacturing. (website)

Note in particular the overview on turning virtual designs into physical objects at "Virtual designs into physical objects"

Tools of The Trade

A working directory of hardware tools are available here.

Readings

Emerse yourself in a variety of informative textshere.