>F4E, Fabbing for Everyone is a similar idea, but for the physical >world.
Interesting stuff - with or without the E concept attached. My exposure to this general realm of things is real (business) world - one of the clients with which I work closely is in the injection molding business. Had the opportunity to tour a plant in Poland that makes some of his molds. Interesting to see the process of CAD drawings directly controlling machines that are essentially carving dense metal in fine detail. Earlier in the process of creating a real product is the prototyping phase. That had been complex and expensive. Now there are contraptions like 3d printers. Industrial Geometry. is how those of us with a certain fixation might look at it. I would like to build the perfectly formed, appropriately flexible non-destructible hexaflexagon, with programmable faces. Wouldn't have thought of that kind of possiblity ten years ago - but materials science might not be too far away from it at this point. The sad part is that once I had it I would look back nostalgically on the days when folks needed to use a protractor to calc 60 degress and fold paper by hand. And I wouldn't be wrong - emotionally. pinky finger. Art _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
