Fabricated

Preface xiii
Chapter 1: Everything is becoming science fiction 1
Chapter 2: A machine that can make almost anything 7
Printing three-dimensional things 11
The ten principles of 3D printing 20
Chapter 3: Nimble manufacturing: Good, fast, and cheap25
Somewhere between mass production and the local farmer'smarket 27
The blank canvas of the 21st century 35
Chapter 4: Tomorrow's economy of printable products45
Like ants with factories 46
The experience economy 51
A future economy of printable products 56
Chapter 5: Printing in layers 65
A manufacturing process at heart 65
Two families of printers 68
Cleaning up design files 77
The raw materials 81
Chapter 6: Design software, the digital canvas 85
A word processor for drawing 85
Today's design software 91
What you design is not (necessarily) what you print 100
The next generation of design software: digital capture 102
Chapter 7: Bioprinting in "living ink" 105
The printer of youth 105
Tissue engineering 111
CAD for the body 120
The future 124
Chapter 8: Digital cuisine 129
Digital gastronomy 130
Feeding the quantified self 142
Processed food 144
Chapter 9: A factory in the classroom 153
Make to learn: Children's engineering 154
Not a national crisis. . . but learning should be enjoyable161
Now let's see you draw that abstract equation on a graph 166
Barriers to classroom adoption 171
The road ahead 173
Chapter 10: Unleashing a new aesthetic 175
Computers that act like nature 176
Printing wavy walls and custom gargoyles 191
Chapter 11: Green, clean manufacturing 197
A tale of two plastic toys 200
Greener manufacturing 202
3D printing a more beautiful landfi ll 206
Chapter 12: Ownership, safety, and new legal frontiers217
Printing weapons, drugs, and shoddy products 218
Rip, mix, and burn physical things 224
Exclusivity vs. the freedom to innovate 230
Chapter 13: Designing the future 241
Tea. Earl Grey. Hot. 241
A bicycle for our imagination 243
The language of shapes 252
Changing the shape of design tools 260
Chapter 14: The next episode of 3D printing 263
The three episodes of 3D printing 265
Cofabrication of multiple materials 266
Moving from printing passive parts to active systems 271
The final episode--from analog to digital 275
Machines making machines 280
References 283
Index 291