3d printing for fun and science and libraries
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3d Printing for fun and science…
and libraries?
Micah AltmanDirector of Research, MIT Libraries
In collaboration with Matthew Bernhardt & Randi Shaprio
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Use in Research & Scholarship
MIT, January IAP 2014
• Designing a satellite(collaborative design prototype)
• Robot attachments(rapid prototyping)
• Modeling Human Coughing(physical modeling)
• Fashion Blogging(fashion/art design)
MIT Students*
• Medical implants and prosthetics
• Teaching aids – manipulatives, training
• Information visualization & materialization
• Transmit/share/access fragile objects – archeology, archives, biology
• Architecture – form & function• Manufacturing – custom parts,
complex parts (airplane industry), field replacements
• Art and architecture
Lab & Industry
• Food printing for quantified self• Bio-fax stage 1 - viruses• Guns and weapons• Pharmaceuticals• Embedded sensors, printable
eletronics• Programmable matter
Experimental
* Real examples from Jan 13 IAP course participants
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Control over materials
Shape
Composition
Behaviors
Lowers barriers
Increased object complexity
Variety and customization
Portable
Lead time – just in time
Minimal manufacturing skills
Expanded design space
Precise physical replication \
Enable New Forms of Design
Localized design
Reactive design
Generative design
Physical sample, remix & burn
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How can “fab” tech make research better?
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Conceptualization & Theorization
Digitization
Modfiication
Fabrication
Intervention & Measurement
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Integrated Fabrication & Research Lifecycle
Support for Research Lifecycle
Prototype instrumentation for interventions
Embed sensors for measurement
Materialize models for analysis
Materialize models for collaboration
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Makerspaces in a Research University
Yale school of Architecture NCSU Libraries
Umich Library 3D Lab
Delamare Libraries, U. of Nevada
Columbia University Libraries
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Providing41%
Planning36%
Not Planning
23%
Sales
Source: Gardner-Harvey Library;Sample: Convenience web sample; 143 respondents
Proportion of Libraries with Maker Spaces or Services
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“Today, we face an increasing challenge in giving our students the knowledge and experience of reducing theory to practice.”
"Project Athena brought about a wave of innovation in the software realm; could new Maker Spaces together with a reinforced commitment to learning-by-doing create the next generation of tinkerers, fluent in advanced manufacturing and rapid prototyping techniques?”
Is the future of MIT Academic Villages and Maker Spaces?
- Institute-wide Task Force on theFuture of MIT Education
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How could libraries help?• We ‘know’ information
– Fab makes information material, and vice versa
• We are interdisciplinary– Making crosses all disciplinary boundaries
• We build literacy– making builds literacy in design, science, technology,
engineering, art, and math
• We support research– to use fab researchers need support – with core set of
skills and knowledge outside their research domain
• We steward the scholarly record– digitizations, designs, models are all unique & valuable
parts of the record being produced here & now
• We create physical spaces for research and learning– successful ‘makerspaces’ bring together ‘good’
location; ‘good’ space; hardware & software; skilled staff; local and global knowledge management
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Questions?
Program on Information [email protected]://informatics.mit.edu
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