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Fabacademy: how to make (almost) anything

Schedule

Principles and practices

Slides

Notes:

• Center for bits and atoms: crossing the border of the digital and the physical
• Digital fabrication => personal fabrication
• Local nodes in international network
• Building a collaborative network, learning from each other
• Fab city > consumers becoming creators (https://fab.city/, Barcelona is pioneering)
• Companies growing out of fablabs like http://cba.mit.edu/docs/papers/17.03.peek.pdf (but you still buy the machine instead of make it)
• Modular hardware > learning how to make machines
• Biology/living materials/genes and computing, communication, fabrication and computation, an algorithm that contains you > self reproducing systems, computation for it’s own reproduction (Von Neumann, Turing)
• If anyone can make anything (empowering so many), it creates this whole new notion of an economy/company/etc, what are the implications? (book Designing Reality by Neil Gershenfeld)

Machines that make machines that make machines:

What you’ll learn each week:

• What it is and when to use it
• The basics (how to use it)
• Where to learn more

Project management

• Git version control system: remote and local versions (open source; Github is the platform for the cloud, gitlab (https://gitlab.fabcloud.org/) instance is used for fabacademy)
• Building a personal site
• Lowest level: synchronization
• Rsync
• Web development (local web server or local files) for documentation (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn)

http://academy.cba.mit.edu/classes/project_management/index.html