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The three axes

Taken as a loose transcript from an interview with Neil Gershenfeld.

Axis1: Scales

Similar processes across scales
naono-micro-meso-macro

Axis2: Tools

  • 10 x 1Mio$ – research tools
  • 10 x 100k$ – workshop tools – to make the machines
  • 10 x 10k$ – 3D printer and lasercutters – to make projects => how to make almost anything class and fablabs
  • 10 x 1k$ – machines made with the machines that can virally reproduce (RepRaps)

Axis3: Nature of manufacturing

Computers controlling machines

First CNC mill 1952 MIT
(Digital manufacturing I think)

Rapid prototyping of rapid prototyping

Rather than picking a machine compose the machine.

  • number of axes
  • open-loop / closed-loop (sensors or not I suppose)
  • additive / subtractive

Machines keep changing with projects.
Still print and cut (and big machine modules to compose I suppose).

Assembling and disassembling

  • MicroLEGO
  • Modular carbon fiber structures

Digi-key in stock: 500k types of Transistors, 500k types of Capacitors, 500k types of Inductors
"Assembler" can make all these out of 3 parts (seems questionable …) (not referring to molecular assemblers here obviously) Make anything from just 20 parts

Different machines and supply chains merged in just one machine.

(Digital control over matter I think)

Programmable materials (why this name?)

Assemblers assembling assemblers (not necessarily nanoscale). Self replicating machines.

Machines go away. Life in inorganic materials.

Thoughts to this

TODO

External links

The whole tour:

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