Catching up on my feeds – you’ve seen me typing and talking about one of the interfaces where bits and atoms meet up, that being rapid prototyping. Most of the time I’m talking about some of the “Grass Roots” efforts such as Fab@Home, but Wired Magazine covered the other side of it, the professional, super high quality prototype machines that are being used every day to do things like build dental implants (San Antonio) or other highly customized objects. You can see their podcast at http://www.wired.com/video/latest-videos/latest/1815816633/rapid-prototyping/3236261001 and see some of the really cool items they created such as a single assembly point drive chain by creating it already put together. (I’ve seen them created with no assembly points by just fabbing the chain on it’s side.)Â
Grr, I REALLY am impatient for the TechShop to open here in Austin!
