Fabricatable Machines

Fossdal, Frikk H.; Dyvik, Jens; Nilsson, Jakob; Nordby, Jon; Helgesen, Torbjørn Nordvik; Heldal, Rogardt; Peek, Nadya

doi:10.1145/3374920.3374929

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“…As often highlighted, the 3D printer comes with the promise of "a machine that could make (almost) anything" [29] and only requires 'a push of a button', despite both research and practice showing that interactions with a 3D printer require far more than that. The 3D printer also stands out as a piece of machinery or "emblematic technology" [8] that has come to symbolize the maker movement as well as futuristic promises of personal fabrication [16,26,53] as well as towards alternative and novel ways of production [7,15,41]. Personal fabrication 1 is according to Gershenfeld understood as the manufacturing of a product using a personal computer, digital data, and a printer that can produce three-dimensional solid objects [17].…”

Section: Personal Fabricationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The dominant body of research around 3D printing and personal fabrication in HCI is aiming towards the advancement of the printer and the printing process [1,36,42,48,49,62], materials to be used [25,40,43,57], includes the modifying or tailoring of machines [15,41] as well as possible application areas, as mapped out in [35] and [3]. As Baudisch and Mueller highlight, it is not fabrication that is novel as the technology itself is old, but novel is that it is personalized and therefore appearing in new contexts [3].…”

Section: Personal Fabricationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The scholars particularly highlight the importance of the practitioners' understanding of the workflow and recommend that "future fabrication tools should consider the interdependencies within a casual maker's workflow and the social nature of the walk-up-and-use 3D printing process" [ibid:393]. Similarly, Fossdal et al argued for a need to "enable users without expertise in machine design but with application and domain expertise to develop their own novel machines" (p.412) [15]. Here the researchers developed an open-source toolkit, as a result from a series of work on novel fabrication machines, that aims to provide scaffolding and infrastructure for designing and customizing of these types of machines [ibid].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Several scholars in HCI have studied the challenges that 3D printing practitioners face, such as Ludwig et al who mapped out design implications when making use of and appropriating desktop 3D printers [32] and proposing new infrastructures for embedding social support [30]. Others have examined the approaches of newcomers to 3D printing and identified barriers in expertise [23,24], explored potential motivations for its use in home settings [52] and discuss technological challenges for making 3D printers more accessible and easier to use [3,15,38].…”

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confidence: 99%

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This paper offers a conceptual contribution to understand 3D printing practice. We have studied conversations between 3D printing practitioners who discuss failed and discarded printed artifacts and analyzed how they make sense of the printing process. Based on findings of interactions with the machine itself, materials used, and designs applied, this study contributes to the field of HCI by highlighting the embodied and situated dimensions of 3D printing. Introducing the concept of machine sensibility, we characterize our findings around: i) assessing printability, ii) monitoring and intervening and iii) reading the prints. We use the term machine to highlight the importance of understanding the materiality of the 3D printer, and sensibility, to address critical interactions and abilities that surfaced in studying this practice. The concept allows researchers to put 3D printing practice in the context of contemporary interaction design research and helps to understand challenges of material-machine-design interdependencies. CCS CONCEPTS• Human-centered computing → Human computer interaction (HCI); HCI theory, concepts and models; Interaction design; Empirical studies in interaction design.

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Enabling Technology Diffusion with the Open Lab Starter Kit

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In recent years, fabrication laboratories or Fab Labs have challenged the dominant position of conventional large-scale manufacturing by offering low-threshold opportunities to engage with production. Fab Labs are therefore catalysts to the emancipation of manufacturing from primarily industrial to personal and communal contexts. However, various bureaucratic and resource-related challenges make the set-up of Fab Labs difficult and hinder an equitable spatial distribution of Fab Labs; there exists, for example, a great difference in the number of labs between industrialized and developing countries. This is contrary to the Fab Lab idea as it hurts the egalitarian access to digital fabrication machines. In response to this, efforts such as the Open Lab Starter Kit (OLSK) make use of Open-Source Hardware (OSH) and specifically Open-Source Machine Tools (OSMT) to facilitate the establishing of labs. The costs and thresholds of these so-called open labs are significantly lower compared to conventional Fab Labs because the machine tools used in them can be manufactured and replicated locally, using local resources. This chapter presents the OLSK approach to open-sourcing the design and documentation of machine tools, and furthermore examines its scope as an enabling technology for a more inclusive and equitable fab city concept.

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Fabricatable axis: an approach for modelling customized fabrication machines

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Dyvik³

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Digital fabrication tools such as 3D printers, computer-numerically controlled (CNC) milling machines, and laser cutters are becoming increasingly available, ranging from consumer to industrial versions. Recent studies have shown that users, ranging from researchers, to industry professionals, to hobbyists, are interested in modifying and changing the inherit workflows these tools provide. As an answer to this, these users are increasingly modifying and customizing their machines by changing the work envelope, adding different end-effectors, and creating their own fabrication workflows in software. However, customizing, modifying and creating digital fabrication machines and the workflows they provide require extensive knowledge within multiple different engineering domains and is non-trivial. In this article we present a model-driven approach that enables users to expand their digital fabrication scope by providing a high-level tool that facilitates the customization of fabrication tools. We present The Farbicatable Axis, a model that enables users to create customized linear actuators. The model takes high-level input parameters such as length and gearing-parameters, and outputs a CAD model of a linear motion axis consisting of fabricatable parts. We then present how instances of the Fabricatable Axis can be combined and used to design and implement Fabricatable Machines.

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Fabricatable Machines

Cited by 19 publications

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Machine Sensibility

Machine Sensibility

Enabling Technology Diffusion with the Open Lab Starter Kit

Fabricatable axis: an approach for modelling customized fabrication machines

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