Nadya Peek from MIT - center for Bits and Atoms on Things That Make Things. ThingsCon Amsterdam 2015 was held at Volkshotel December 4, 2015.

1. Things That Make Things:
Rapid prototyping of
rapid prototyping machines
Thingscon Amsterdam, December 2015
Nadya Peek, MIT Center for Bits and Atoms, peek@mit.edu

2. MIT Servomechanisms lab, 1952
Popular Science 1957

3. 1M units/year, 10k CNCs
Making the all-new Mac Pro

4. NASA Ames, 2014

5. Runtime

6. Hardware-oriented start ups

7. Huaqiang Bei, Shenzhen

8. Hardware infrastructure

9. Huaqiang Bei, Shenzhen

10. Shanzhai

11. NASA Ames, 2014

12. Personal Fabrication in Fab Labs

13. Popfab: suitcase CNC

15. Gestalt library for virtual machine networks

16. Rapid Prototyping of Rapid Prototyping Machines

22. Object-oriented hardware meets object-oriented software

26. Wright brothers wind tunnel

27. A cardboard construction kit for machine building

30. Things That Make Things:
Rapid prototyping of
rapid prototyping machines
Thingscon Amsterdam, December 2015
Nadya Peek, MIT Center for Bits and Atoms, peek@mit.edu