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The Pleasure Of Making Things

The Pleasure Of Making Things. Bakhtiar Mikhak Chris Lyon Tim Gorton Jeff Mellen Learning Webs Group. Overview. GOAL Making it easy for a diverse group of people to design and make their own tools and applications TOOLKITS Modular Electronics Development Environment

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The Pleasure Of Making Things

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  1. The Pleasure Of Making Things Bakhtiar Mikhak Chris Lyon Tim Gorton Jeff Mellen Learning Webs Group

  2. Overview GOAL Making it easy for a diverse group of people to design and make their own tools and applications TOOLKITS • Modular Electronics Development Environment • Collaborative Modeling Environments • Intuitive programmable design environments for computer controlled fabrication tools Learning Webs Group, MIT Media Laboratory

  3. The Tower System:A Modular Electronics Development Environment Learning Webs Group, MIT Media Laboratory

  4. The Tower System:A Modular Electronics Development Environment • flexible, extensible rapid prototyping tool • customizable, modular virtual machines • use in a wide range of applications • process modeling • personal fabrication • International development • architecture – building ip / ip everywhere • prototyping learning tools and activities • use in education – powerful and inexpensive Learning Webs Group, MIT Media Laboratory

  5. The Rabbit Tower:A Modular Electronics Development Environment • a foundation with • more ram and flash storage • an ethernet port and tcp/ip stack • use in a wide range of applications • tabletop networking • embedded web services • process modeling • USPS collaboration • workplace research Learning Webs Group, MIT Media Laboratory

  6. Tabletop Process Modeling Toolkit Learning Webs Group, MIT Media Laboratory

  7. USPS Collaboration Man 040 D I S P A T C H Mailflow Model ISS 841 DBCS 892 DBCS 971 canceler other ops Learning Webs Group, MIT Media Laboratory

  8. USPS Collaboration Man 040 D I S P A T C H Mailflow Model ISS 841 DBCS 892 DBCS 971 canceler other ops Learning Webs Group, MIT Media Laboratory

  9. Opportunity Putting rapid prototyping tools, such as • Laser Cutters • Milling Machines • Lathes • 3D Printing and Modeling • embroidery machines in the hands of a large group of non-traditional users Learning Webs Group, MIT Media Laboratory

  10. Example: Making Movies Learning Webs Group, MIT Media Laboratory

  11. Example: Movies and iMovie Learning Webs Group, MIT Media Laboratory

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