Category:Manufacturing
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.
However, this section also includes developments about 'production' and 'making' in general, including topics like the DIY revolution, the digitalization of crafts, and agricultural production.
Contacts
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| Bryan Bishop | Kirsty Boyle | Charles Collis | Nathan Cravens | Paul Fernhout | Vinay Gupta | |
| kanzure AT gmail DOT com | kirsty AT openmaterials DOT org | charles dot collis at gmail dot com | knuggy AT gmail DOT com | pdfernhout AT kurtz-fernhout DOT com | hexayurt AT gmail DOT com | |
| Eric Hunting | Marcin Jakubowski | Smári McCarthy | Massimo Menichinelli | Catarina Mota | Chris Watkins | |
| erichunting AT gmail DOT com | joseph dot dolittle at gmail dot com | spm2 AT hi DOT is | info AT openp2pdesign DOT org | catarina AT openmaterials DOT org | chriswaterguy AT appropedia.org |
Community
- Hackerspaces "Hackerspaces are community-operated physical places, where people can meet and work on their projects."
- Factor E Farm "Open Source Ecology is a movement dedicated to the collaborative development of tools for replicable, open source, modern off-grid "resilient communities." By using permaculture and digital fabrication together to provide for basic needs and open source methodology to allow low cost replication of the entire operation, we hope to empower anyone who desires to move beyond the struggle for survival and "evolve to freedom."
and:
Citations
"The emergence of commons-based techniques — particularly, of an open innovation platform that can incorporate farmers and local agronomists from around the world into the development and feedback process through networked collaboration platforms—promises the most likely avenue to achieve research oriented toward increased food security in the developing world. It promises a mechanism of development that will not increase the relative weight and control of a small number of commercial firms that specialize in agricultural production. It will instead release the products of innovation into a self-binding commons—one that is institutionally designed to defend itself against appropriation. It promises an iterative collaboration platform that would be able to collect environmental and local feedback in the way that a free software development project collects bug reports—through a continuous process of networked conversation among the user-innovators themselves."
- Yochai Benkler ([1], p. 22)
"The guaranteed income will, in fact, lead to the revival of "private enterprise." Once the guaranteed income is available, we can anticipate the organization of what I have called "consentives": productive groups formed by individuals who will come together on a voluntary basis simply because they wish to do so. The goods produced by these consentives will not compete with mass-produced goods available from cybernated firms. The consentive will normally produce the "custom-designed" goods that have been vanishing within the present economy. The consentive would sell in competition with firms paying wages, but its prices would normally be lower because it would need to cover only the cost of materials and other required supplies. Wages and salaries would not need to be met out of income, as the consentive members would be receiving a guaranteed income. The consentive would be market-oriented but not market-supported."
- Robert Theobald, The Guaranteed Income, 1966
Introductory Resources
The Holistic Problem of Manufacturing
There is yet a central point of access to all the world's manufacturing diversity.
Discussion
- Open Manufacturing: Linking Bits to Atoms for Community
- Rapid Prototyping mailing list
- Rapid Manufacturing Ning community: "Community for Advanced Manufacturing Technologies"
- Global Swadeshi
Overview
- Advanced Civilisation is a site founded by Charles Collis to introduce current and developing states of Open and Distributed Manufacturing. Note in particular the overview on turning virtual designs into physical objects at
"Virtual designs into physical objects"
- Essay: The Homebrew Industrial Revolution. Kevin Carson. C4SS, 2009 [2]: overview of contemporary trends in distributed manufacturing
Tools of The Trade
- A working directory of hardware tools are available here.
- 100k Garages is a network of Digital Fabrication shops, where your design can be fabricated [3]
- Product Hacking: directory of Open Source Hardware projects
- 3D Filter: 3D Model Search Engine: trawl sites such as Cadyou, Google 3D warehouse, The 3D Studio and seven others for 3D models in a variety of formats as well as textures
- n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com: an open source web site under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike license: in which generative design methods are used to create new forms of products with the use of rapid prototyping methods. It allows members to login, download, upload and create designs.
- open furniture: OF is an open source platform that exhanges and sells designs. The concept of this effort is to create a company that can be profitable while, at the same time, can keep its interest in the idea of sharing and exchanging. The platform is open to anyone interested in design and it functions based on a point system that facilitates users to download and fabricate products.
- SourceShop - an Open Source Platform: SourceShop is a shop of digitally fabricated designer products that can be purchased by anybody. This exchange intends to go beyond its commercial aspect by expanding knowledge towards the world of digital fabrication. The main goal of SourceShop is to share knowledge between students, participants and all interested people of digital fabrication.
Readings
- Kevin Carson: Expanding Peer Production to the Physical World
- The economics of open hardware (Liquid Antipasto blog)
- On the Open Design of Tangible Goods. By Christina Raasch, Cornelius Herstatt and Kerstin Balka. R&D Management. Volume 39 Issue 4, Pages 382 - 393 Preprint version: detailed comparative case studies of 6 projects.
Also:
- Immerse yourself in a variety of informative texts here.
- Personal Fabrication for Dummies: 10 different techniques explained and shown in video illustrations
- Kevin Carson: Emilia-Romagna as an example of sustainable manufacturing
- Neil Gershenfeld on the need for a new digital maker literacy
- Paul Fernhout: The Differences between Open Agriculture and Open Manufacturing
- David A. Mellis: How Open Source Hardware differs from Open Source Software?
An important note on terminology: leading experts such as Frank Piller and Terry Wohlers prefer to use 3D Printing for a general public, and Additive Fabrication in technical contexts, instead of Rapid Prototyping or Rapid Manufacturing [4]
Political Issues
Videos
- Pettis. Hoeken. MakerBot.
- Eric von Hippel on User Centered Innovation: in fact, for a long time already, users (and user communities) have been responsible for most industrial innovations!!
FAQ
An FAQ across a wide open manufacturing spectrum.
Additional Resources
Articles
Introductory series by Tom Powell:
- Part 1: Figuring out crowdsourcing: What does it mean? What’s working? What isn’t?
- Part 2: Crowdfunding, Investing and Donation 2.0
- Part 3: Digital Suggestion Box: how big corporations are asking for help
- Part 4: The Competition Model
- Part 5: The evolution of mass customization and personal manufacturing
- Part 6: Expert sourcing for problem solving and innovation
- Part 7: Many hands make light work: The atomization of work
- Part 8: Collaborative Content Creation; or, Crowdsourcing your way to creativity
Blogs
- openMaterials
- Fabbaloo: tracks developments in Fabbing, 3D Printing and Desktop Manufacturing. We believe in a future where everyone can easily make any 3D objects by using inexpensive desktop equipment, much like we use inkjet printers today for two-dimensional paper objects.
- Replicator: "This blog is about the companies and products that combine the connectivity of the internet with the physicality of products."
- Ponoko: blog from 3D printing company
- Thingiverse
Related
Books
General
- Fab. Neil Gershenfeld.
- Roadmap for Additive Fabrication.Identifying the Future of Freeform Processing: An impressive work weighing in at over 100 pages it covers the industry as it exists and identifies potential market and research opportunities for the next 5-10 years. [5]
- Digital Fabrications: Architectural and Material Techniques: "If i had to recommend you one book about the use of digital tools in architecture, it would be this one." - Regine Debatty [6]
Technical
- Better be Running. Ronald Hollis: "the most complete intro to additive fabrication" [7]
Conferences and Events
- The Grounding Open Source Hardware (GOSH!) Summit at The Banff Centre serves to bring together the many and disparate makers, producers, theorizers, and promoters of physical objects that come to life under open and distributed models. This Banff New Media Institute (BNMI) summit will highlight and facilitate the emerging dialogue on both artist-driven and socially conscious open source hardware projects.
Podcasts
Adrian Bowyer on the RepRap Project; Andrew Bowyer on the RepRap Project and Self-replicating Machines ; Alex Lindsay on Digital Craftsmen for Development ; Anil Gupta on Appropriate Technology for Agroinnovations; Brenda Dayne on Knitting as an Open Craft ; Carl Etnier on Neighbor to Neighbor Skill Sharing ; David Lee and Valerie Wilson on the the Open Source Green Vehicle Project ; Elizabeth Henderson on Sharing the Harvest through Community-Supported Agriculture ; Janne Kyttanen on Rapid Manufacturing ; Johan Soderbergh on Ronja as Anonymous Communication through Free-Air-Optics ; Lonny Grafman and Curt Beckmann of Appropedia on Open Source Appropriate Technology ; Marcin Jakubowski on Open Farm Tech ; Marcin Jakubowski on Transition Towns and Open Source Villages ; Massimo Banzi on Arduino ; Patricia Allen and Ronald Wright on Permaculture as Sustainable Agriculture ; Phil Torrone and Limor Fried on the Maker Movement ; Sean Moss-Pultz on Open Moko ; Vinay Gupta and Andrew Lamb on the Appropedia Approach ; Vinay Gupta on Ending Poverty With Open Hardware
Mapping the Emergence of Distributed Infrastructures
Essential Goods and Services Made of Atoms:
- Food and Water, requiring Agriculture
- [building products P2P-Architecture]?
Sam Rose and Paul Hartzog offer a typology of different Infrastructure Commons:
- Energy Commons
- Food Commons
- Thing Commons
- Cultural Commons
- Access Commons
Pages in category "Manufacturing"
The following 200 pages are in this category, out of 1,776 total.
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- 3.2 Explaining the Emergence of P2P Economics
- 3.2.B. How far can peer production be extended?
- 3D Additivist Cookbook
- 3D Bioprinting
- 3D Earth Printing Construction Technology
- 3D Fabbing
- 3D Hubs
- 3D Mud House Printing
- 3D Printables
- 3D Printed Car
- 3D Printer OS
- 3D Printers for Peace
- 3D Printers, the Third Industrial Revolution, and the Demise of Capitalism
- 3D Printing
- 3D Printing as an Agent of Socio-Political Change
- 3D Printing Community and Emerging Practices of Peer Production
- 3D Printing Files Marketplaces
- 3D Printing Industry
- 3D Printing Revolution Film
- 3D Printing Step-by-Step
- 3D Printing, Intellectual Property, and the Fight Over the Next Great Disruptive Technology
- 3D Printing, the Arts and Crafts Movement and the Democratization of Art
- 3D Robotics
- 3D Scanner
- 3D Scanning
- 3D Solar Sinter Prints on Sand
- 3Drag
- 3DSUG
- 3Ducation Project
A
- Aaron Makaruk on the Open Source Ecology Project
- Aaron Makaruk, Yoonseo Kang et al. on the Open Tech Forever Project
- Ability Mate
- Access to Tools
- Adafruit
- Adafruit Industries
- Additer
- Additive Fabrication
- Additive Manufacturing
- Additive Manufacturing as Global Remanufacturing of Politics
- Additivism
- Adrian Bowyer on 3D Printers
- Adrian Bowyer on Personal Manufacturing
- Adrian Bowyer on Rapid Prototyping
- Adrian Bowyer on the RepRap
- Adrian Bowyer on the RepRap Project
- Adrian Bowyer on the RepRap Project Lab
- Advanced Automation
- Advanced Civilization
- African Fabbers
- Agata Jaworska on the Design for Download Project
- Agoblogoshie Makerspace Platform
- Agua Clara
- AI Supply Chain Observatory
- Air Data Instrument
- Alastair Parvin on the Wikihouse Open Source Construction Set
- Alastair Parvin on Wikihouse
- Alastair Parvin on Wikihouse's Open Source Architecture
- Alchematter
- Alessandro Ranellucci
- Alex Lindsay on Digital Craftsmen for Development
- Algedonics
- Alice Taylor on Personal Manufacturing
- Alicia Gibb
- Alicia Gibb and Ayah Bdeir Explain the Open Source Hardware Revolution
- Alicia Gibb on the Status of the Open Source Hardware Movement in 2012
- ALL Power Labs
- Amine Ghrabi
- Analysis of Open Hardware Licensing
- Andrew Bowyer on the RepRap Project
- Andrew Bowyer on the RepRap Project and Self-replicating Machines
- Andrew Katz on Copyleft Licensing for Hardware
- Andrew Lamb
- Andrew Lamb on Massive Small Manufacturing for Humanitarian Aid
- Anil Gupta on Appropriate Technology for Agroinnovations
- Anna Greenspan
- Anna Seravalli
- Another Production is Possible
- Anticipated Environmental Sustainability of Personal Fabrication
- Apertus Association
- Apollo
- Apollo Open Vehicle Certificate Platform
- Appropedia
- Appropedia Foundation
- Arab Hackerspaces
- Architecture Design Sharing
- Arduino
- Arduino - Business Model
- Arduino and Open Source Design
- Arduino's Open Source Hardware Business Model
- ArduPilot
- ArduSat
- Aria
- ARIA
- ArkFab Innovation Foundation
- ASAP Island
- At-Home Manufacture of Circuit Boards
- Atadiat
- Atelier Paysan
- Ateliers Fab Lab at ENSCI
- AtFab
- Atomic Duck
- Audio Files from the Open Hardware Summit 2010
- Aurélie Ghalim
- Automake
- Automated Infrastructure
- Automation and the Future of Work
- Automation, Accelerating Technology and the Economy of the Future
- Autonomous Roadless Intelligent Array
- Avi Reichental on What’s Next in 3D Printing
- Avoccado
- Ayah Bdeir
- Ayah Bdeir on littleBits
B
- Babilim Light Industries
- Backyard Biology
- Barcelona 5.0 Plan
- Barcelona MADE Project
- Barcelona Maker Faire
- Barriers and Challenges to Personal Manufacturing
- Bath Open INstrumentation Group
- Bay Area DIY communities
- BeagleBoard
- Behrokh Khoshnevis on Automated Construction through Contour Crafting
- Belt and Road Initiative
- Ben Armstrong
- Ben Einstein on Building a Hardware Company
- Bengt Sjölén
- Best of Instructables
- Best Practices of Open Source Mechanical Hardware
- Better Be Running
- Bibliography on Localizing and Distributing Production
- Bibliography on Open Design and Distributed Manufacturing
- Big Blue Saw
- Bike Kitchen
- Bike Kitchens
- Bio and Hardware Hacking
- Biohackers
- Biohacking
- Biohacking Safari
- BioPunk
- Bioregional Fibershed
- Biospace - Canada
- Bit Beam
- Bits From Bytes
- Blade
- BoardForge
- Bob Haugen
- BotQueue
- Bottega21
- Bram Geenen
- Brazilian Hackerspaces as Spaces of Resistance and Free Education
- Bre Pettis on Creating Hackerspaces
- Bre Pettis on Rapid Prototyping
- Bre Pettis on the History of MakerBot
- Bre Pettis on the Open Source Making Methodology
- Brenda Dayne on Knitting as an Open Craft
- Bret Victor on Design Tools for Makerspaces as Communal Spaces
- Bricolabs
- Bricoleur
- Brief History of Open Source Hardware Organizations and Definitions
- Brmlab
- Bronac Ferran, and Andrew Prescott on Contemporary Making as a New Way of Thinking
- Bruce Sterling on Industrial Products And Ubiquity
- Bruce Sterling's Update on "Shaping Things"
- BUG
- Bug Labs
- Build It Solar
- Building an Economy of the Commons Through Open Distributed Manufacturing Structures
- Building Blocks
- Building Open Source Hardware
- Bunnie Huang
- Business Models for DIY Craft
- Business Models for Fab Labs
- Business Models for Open Hardware
- Business Models of Fab Labs
C
- C,mm,n
- C3POW
- CAD for Personal Manufacturing
- Camera Libre
- Cameron Sinclair on Open Source Architecture
- Can 3D Printing Lead to Mass Manufacturing
- Can Peer Production Make Washing Machines?
- CandyFab Project
- Carl Etnier on Neighbor to Neighbor Skill Sharing
- Carolina Rossini on the Industrial Cooperation Project
- Carsharing
- Casa Jasmina
- Case for Open Source Appropriate Technology
- Case of a RepRap-Based, Lego-Built 3D Printing-Milling Machine
- Catarina Mota
- Catarina Mota on Open Materials
- Catarina Mota on the Open Materials Movement
- CCCKC 2011 Panel on Maker Movement, 3D Printing, and Fabrication
- Center for Community Production
- CEO Guide To Making Prototypes for 3D Printing
- CERN Open Hardware License
