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

Machines

readings

Precision manufacturing - Dornfield & Lee, 2008, Parts I & II

Social Choice in Machine Design, David Noble 1979

A Parable of Automation - James Fallows 1984 NY Review of Books


notes

Claude Shannon

Norbert Wiener

Gerber slide rules

Vannevar Bush

John von Neumann

Servomechanisms Laboratory

Ivan Sutherland

J.C.R. Licklider

Manfred Clynes / Nathan Kline

Douglas Engelbart

Alan Kay / Adele Goldberg

Donna Haraway

Lucy Suchman

Adrian Bowyer

George Church


slides

here


assignment

Propose at least one capability and one application that you will be responsible for, and describe what they are (and why) on your class site.