Home Fabbing

Posted by admin on Sep 5th, 2010 | 0 comments

Welcome to Home Fabbing. An emerging manufacturing technology for the home – Home Fabbing is the process of building 3 dimensional objects by carefully depositing materials drop by drop, layer by layer. With the right set of materials and CAD (computer aided design), it is becoming possible to fabricate complex objects that would normally take special resources, tools and skills if produced using conventional manufacturing techniques. Most commercial 3D Printers today are limited to one material at a time. As the technology improves, soon home machines will be able to use multiple materials to fabricate complete products.

Just as MP3s, iPods and the Internet have freed musical talent, blueprints and home fabbing will democratize innovation. The endgame of home fabbing is the personal nanofactory, where the unit of construction will shrink to the atomic level. Early products of home fabbing will be watch bands, plastic dispensers, eating utensils, and advanced nanotech fabbing will give us literally anything that can take a physical shape – from a bicycle to a smart phone to a perfectly cooked filet mignon.

Home Fabbing tracks the migration of printing paper documents in the home to manufacturing almost any item conceivable. It is going to be an interesting next couple of decades for sure. Thank you for visiting and supporting HomeFabbing.