Rapid-Prototyping of Rapid-Prototyping Machines:
How to Make Something that Makes (almost) Anything

Materials

readings notes

First million or so years: wood rock bone horn and leather

neolithic love song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5U-TH7KlOU

wood bone horn and leather are already composites

then neolithic, then CLAY and METALS

clay!

forged metal!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyUkYJeZtW4

sls

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9E5MfBAV_tA

sintered metal!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVJ1DOIDl2A

a love letter to plywood

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVxldyIa0Bg

then PLASTICS

one word

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbjqpVJJsL0

slow mo milling

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDxNDWObTyg

SEM chips pulling

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fdOSFUGL2c

stress in materials! comes from making them, comes from storage, comes from machining them

polariscope

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izPCgmsHYFU

plastic stress is in everything!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6U4uembaNQ

slip reaction foam

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ftomnKT4kQ

metamaterials and assembled materials

3d printing composites!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnGPYwNM4rE

truss building!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynr7VGiusQQ

quadcopter assembly!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvN9Ri1GmuY

THE DIAMOND AGE


assignment
• Measure the stiffness and strength of a structure, and relate it to the material properties