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Beside [[Further improvement at technology level III|useful products]] a personal fabricator can quickly produce [[self replication|copies of itself]] and that [[abundance of raw materials|without any special raw materials]] thus you can make copies for all of your friends and they can make copies for all of their friends. | Beside [[Further improvement at technology level III|useful products]] a personal fabricator can quickly produce [[self replication|copies of itself]] and that [[abundance of raw materials|without any special raw materials]] thus you can make copies for all of your friends and they can make copies for all of their friends. | ||
Revision as of 17:56, 28 June 2017
Atomically precise small scale factories or gem gum factories for short are the main topic of this wiki.
A survey of alternative names that where used or are newly proposed can be found >>here<<.
- For a more general overview please go to the main page.
- For a more technical overview about gem gum factories check out: Design of advanced nanofactories.
Contents
What it is and what it does
 A personal desktop gem-gum factory fabblet with dynamically deployed protective hood. |
The personal gem gum factory is:
The personal gem gum factory makes:
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Self replication
In the bootstrapping process
Compact self replication is not a prerequisite for the bootstrapping of advanced nanofactories.
In normal usage
Beside useful products a personal fabricator can quickly produce copies of itself and that without any special raw materials thus you can make copies for all of your friends and they can make copies for all of their friends. Since everyone is linked to every other person on earth through a low number of acquaintanceships wikipedia: six degrees of separation (well not entirely true) you can imagine how fast this can spread.
Stage step table
You may meander through this table in two ways:
- size wise column by column including all the repeating processing steps (including the assembly levels) and/or
- type wise row by row showing how the chosen aspect of the processing chain changes with scale
| Caracteristics | Level 0 | Level I | Level II | Level III (and up) |
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| Type of Components | Molecular fragments wanted: versatile abundant and nontoxic elements |
Crystolecules wanted: standard building blocks (mass produced "nuts and bolts") |
Microcomponents wanted: reusable units (possibly indivisible) |
Product fragments wanted: composable metamaterials |
| Examples for typical Components | Fragments of simple compounds CH4, CO2, ... including at least some basic elements: C,H,Si,Ge,... |
Crystolecules:
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Microcomponents:
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| Comprehensible size comparison model scale 500.000:1 | Model atoms have the diameter of an average human hair (0.1mm) | Model components are from the size of a grain of salt to the size of a playing dice (1mm-16mm) | Model components are the size of a big plant pot (~50cm) | Model components are the size of a house (~16m). A 50m wide soccer court scaled down 1:500.000 is visible by eye - it has the width of a human hair. |
| Physical Properties (strength, wear, friction and more) | atoms are eternally wear free (for all practical purpouses) |
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inheriting toughness | emulated properties via metamaterials |
| Methods for Connection (Physical interfaces) |
covalent bonds |
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advanced auto-align mechanisms |
| Character of Manipulators | fast mass production/preparation in stiff molecular mills (employing 3 tip tricks) |
conveyor belt assembly | stiff manipulators with parallel mechanics akin to steward platform | conventional factory robot arms with serial mechanics |
| Internal distribution / logistics | Moiety routing: Note: even for basic hydrocarbon handling this is quite complex | Major rail routing station: Note: Redundancy requires fail safe producers and consumers | Minor rail routing station. For microcomponent recomposition | No routing. (?) Possibly general purpose robotic pick and place. |
| Airlocks and clean keeping | All mechanosynthesis happens under practically perfect vacuum. No airlocks at this scale. | Possibly early vacuum lockout of passivated crystolecules. | Main vacuum lockout step. Passivated microcomponents can be assembled and disassembled in air. | Possibly early clean-room lockout. Bigger product fragments can handle dust and dirt - to a degree. |
(TODO: add miniature images and links to table)
Nanofactory control
- hardware hierarchy of processing logic
- software decompression chain
(TODO: include a broad image overview here )
Related
- Design of advanced nanofactories
- Gemstone metamaterial technology aka advanced high throughput atomically precise manufacturing
- Convergent assembly
- Nanofactory layers
External links
- [todo: add the main ones]
- Preliminary rendering from the "productive nanosystems" concept video: [2]
some details are different than in the final versions. - Complete molecular manufacturing systems will have many subsystems, designed to meet many constraints (2014-04 on K. Eric Drexlers website)
