Category:Manufacturing
Contents
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.
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 | |
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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 |
Introductory Resources
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"
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 [1]
- Product Hacking: directory of Open Source Hardware projects
Readings / Media
- Kevin Carson: Expanding Peer Production to the Physical World
- The economics of open hardware (Liquid Antipasto blog)
Also:
- Immerse yourself in a variety of informative texts here.
- Personal Fabrication for Dummies: 10 different techniques explained and shown in video illustrations
- Video: 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!!
- 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 [2]
Political Issues
FAQ
An FAQ across a wide open manufacturing spectrum.
Additional Resources
- Twitter feeds on mass customization and personal fabrication
- Do check out the Open Materials group
Blogs
- 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.
- Ponoko: blog from 3D printing company
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. [3]
Technical
- Better be Running. Ronald Hollis: "the most complete intro to additive fabrication" [4]
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
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."
Also See
Pages in category "Manufacturing"
The following 200 pages are in this category, out of 1,742 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 Civilisation
- African Fabbers
- Agata Jaworska on the Design for Download Project
- Agoblogoshie Makerspace Platform
- Agua Clara
- 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
- 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, 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
- 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
- Certificate for Open Regenerative Hardware
- Certified Open Hardware Licenses
- Cesar Harada
- Cesar Harada on the Protei Ocean Cleaning Project