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Fabricated : the new world of 3D printing / Hod Lipson, Melba Kurman.

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Indianapolis, Indiana : John Wiley & Sons, c2013.

9781118350638 (pbk.)

1118350634 (pbk.)

302 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Chapter 1: Everything is becoming science fiction -- Chapter 2: A machine that can make almost anything; Printing three-dimensional things; The ten principles of 3D printing -- Chapter 3: Nimble manufacturing: Good, fast, and cheap; Somewhere between mass production and the local farmer's market; The blank canvas of the 21st century -- Chapter 4:Tomorrow's economy of printable products; Like ants with factories; The experience economy; A future economy of printable products -- Chapter 5: Printing in layers; A manufacturing process at heart; Two families of printers; Cleaning up design files; The raw materials -- Chapter 6: Design software, the digital canvas; A word processor for drawing; Today's design software; What you design is not (necessarily) what you print; The next generation of design software: digital capture -- Chapter 7: Bioprinting in "living ink"; The printer of youth; Tissue engineering; CAD for the body; The future -- Chapter 8: Digital cuisine; Digital gastronomy; Feeding the quantified self; Processed food -- Chapter 9: A factory in the classroom; Make to learn: Children's engineering -- Not a national crisis ... but learning should be enjoyable; Now let's see you draw that abstract equation on a graph; Barriers to classroom adoption; The road ahead -- Chapter 10: Unleashing a new aesthetic; Computers that act like nature; Printing wavy walls and custom gargoyles -- Chapter 11: Green, clean manufacturing; A tale of two plastic toys; Greener manufacturing; 3D printing a more beautiful landfill -- Chapter 12: Ownership, safety, and new legal frontiers; Printing weapons, drugs, and shoddy products; Rip, mix, and burn physical things; Exclusivity vs. the freedom to innovate -- Chapter 13: Designing the future tea. Earl Grey. Hot.; A bicycle for our imagination; The language of shapes; Changing the shape of design tools -- Chapter 14: The next episode of 3D printing; The three episodes of 3D printing; Cofabrication of multiple materials; Moving from printing passive parts to active systems; The final episode-from analog to digital; Machines making machines; References; Index.

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