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From YouTube: Fab Academy Machines Presentation

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There's some really good progress - and collaboration potential - for the Fab Lab machines to go open source. The Fab Lab concept was formulated 13 years ago -

https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/Fab:_The_Coming_Revolution_on_Your_Desktop_-_from_Personal_Computers_to_Personal_Fabrication -

And many Fab Labs are active. Relatively little of their work focused on a replicable, open source machine set to populate the Fab Lab with. But good progress is being made, making collaboration timely.

This is timely as OSE also gets its Universal Axis-based, scalable CNC system off the ground. We have the lowest unique part count in the world - for any CNC motion system, so we expect that we can mix with the Fab Lab modules to improve our work. I also think that the Fab Labs can benefit from our steel-and-plastic composite design. That is, if they want to pursue higher performance at lower cost compared to aluminum.

Jens Dyvik and Daniele Ingrasia are open to collaboration on open economic development, and Nadia Peek offers her universal tool-changer to the world as open source. See more notes and a transcript with links for my presentation on industrial productivity on a small scale -

https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/Fab_Academy_Machines_Presentation

and links to the other presentations at

http://academany.fabcloud.io/fabacademy/2020/recitations/machines/


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