Gemstone metamaterial on chip factory

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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.

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: Your personal device that can push out virtually every thing* of your daily use. (* at least every inedible thing) The personal gem gum factory makes: Your products that are as cheap as the abundant mining-free raw materials that it processes. Your products that are far superior to today's best and ridiculously expensive high tech products. Your products potentially in an environmentally friendly effluent free way (also advanced recycling is faster than producing from scratch) Graphical Infosheets: [1] (work in progress)

Self replication

Beside uesful 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

Caracteristics	Level 0	Level I	Level II	Level III
Type of Components	molecular fragments	crystolecules	microcomponents	product fragments
Methods for Connection (Physical interfaces)	covalent bonds	surface interfaces shape locking (Van der Waals sticking)	(shape locking) Van der Waals sticking simple mechanisms	advanced auto-align mechanisms
Physical Properties	atoms are eternally wear free (for all practical purpouses)	super lubricating practically wear free strong	inheriting toughness	emulated properties via metamaterials
Examples of Components	Elements C,H,Si,Ge,...	basic machine elements basic structural elements	space filling polyhedra and adapterparts	muscle motors infinitesimal bearings designed stress strain behaviour power tweakable energy storage thermal switch material air accelerators
Size Comparison Model Scale 500.000:1	grain of salt	playing dice	big plant pot	house
Character of Manipulators	3 tip tricks	conveyor belt assembly	stiff manipulators with parallel mechanics akin to steward plattform	conventional factory robot arms with serial mechanics
Distribution / Logistics	moiety routing even for basic hydrocarbon handling quite complex	major rail routing station fail safe producer and consumer for redundancy	minor rail routing station	no routing?
Clean Environment	all mechanosynthesis happens under practically perfect vacuum	possibly early vacuum lockout of crystolecules	main vacuum lockout of microcomponents	possibly clean-room lockout

(TODO: add miniature images and links to table)

Related

• Design of advanced nanofactories
• Repeating processing steps including the assembly levels
  (TODO: include a broad image overview here meandering through a table in two ways - size wise and type wise)
  Including change of Connection methods with size.

External links

• [todo: add the main ones]