FabLab stands for "Fabrication Laboratories". These are centres equipped with 3D printers, laser cutters and all sorts of other digitally controlled equipment. The first one was opened in MIT by Neil Gerschenfeld, professor of Bits and Atoms with a course entitled "How to make (almost) anything". They have now spread across the world including England. This presentation by Jane Keats was given to Leeds and Sheffield inventors clubs.

1. Factories
of the
Future
Jane Keats
21 September 2011
Leeds Inventors Group

2. Summary
1. Fab Labs
2. Next Industrial Revolution
3. Factory of the Future
4. Open innovation
5. Personal Experiences

3. Show of Hands
• Fab Lab
• MakerBot, RepRap or Ulti-maker
• Shop Bot
• Ponoko

4. 1. Fab Labs

5. What is a Fab lab?
Definition:
Fab Labs are a global
network of local labs,
enabling invention by
providing access for
individuals to tools for
digital fabrication.
http://wiki.fablab.is/w/index.php?title=Fab_Charter

6. History
Professor Neil Gershenfeld
MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms
2001 Grassroots invention group
2011 - 90 Fab Labs world wide
http://www.protospace.nl/fabmoments/bolcom-prints-lijmen

7. What is in a Fab Lab?
MAKE IT ELECTRONICS
• Laser cutter • Welding station
• Wood Router • Oscilloscope
• 3d Printer • Power supply
• Milling machine • Electronic components
• Vinyl/ sign cutter
• Basic hand tools
• Moulding and casting
• Embroidery machine
http://wiki.fablab.is/w/index.php?title=Portal:Equiment

8. What’s does a Fab Lab look like?

9. Local Fab Labs
BUSINESS USE
Tuesday – Thursday 9:00 – 17:00
EVERYONE
Friday 09:00 – 17:00
Saturday 10:00 – 18:00
http://www.fablabmanchester.org/

10. What can you make in a Fab Lab?

11. Vaccum former
New Flying Drone Bubble
http://www.protospace.nl/fabmoments/aerodynamische-kap-drone

12. Laser Cutter
Rings
http://www.protospace.nl/fabmoments/ring-0

13. 3d Print another machine
RepRap Mendal component ABS Plastic
http://www.protospace.nl/fabmoments/reprap-mendel-prusa-onderdelen

14. CNC Milling
Colums by Michael Hansmeyer, 1mm acrylic layers
http://blog.ponoko.com/2011/09/18/incredible-cnc-milled-columns-designed-
with-processing/#more-30161

15. Houses
Solar Decathlon Europe 2010
http://www.fablabhouse.com/
http://fablabbcn.org/

16. Houses
Interior

17. Materials
www.inventables.com
http://www.inventables.com/

18. Ways to use a Fab Lab
FREE RENT
You must learn to do it Exclusive access to machines and
yourself, and you must share expertise within the Fab Lab.
you knowledge with other
users. Commercial activities can be
incubated in Fab Labs but they
Designs and processes must should grow beyond rather than
remain available for individual within the lab.
use, although intellectual
property can be protected
however you choose.
http://wiki.fablab.is/w/index.php?title=Fab_Charter

19. Licencing
Creative Commons open content licenses
A pool of content that can be copied, distributed, edited,
remixed, and built upon, all within the boundaries of
copyright law.
Use this as a resource yourself,
http://creativecommons.org

20. 2. Next Industrial Revolution
Additive manufacturing on a personal scale.

21. Reprap
Mendal prusa Darwin
Reprap.org

22. 3D Print
https://picasaweb.google.com/107219183520752939264/UltimakerGallery?
feat=flashalbum#5622501612365797538

23. RepRap surpasses commercial 3d printer
http://blog.reprap.org/2011/09/tipping-point-of-print-quality-open.html

24. MakerBot Industries
Laser cutter
Thing-O-matic
http://www.makerbot.com/
http://www.thingiverse.com/

25. Ultimaker
Bigger, lighter, faster, finer…
http://wiki.ultimaker.com/Ultimaker_specs_and_features

26. Food Design

27. Food
French Cullinary Institute, Dave Arnold

28. Food Design
Tortilla Chips

29. Ceramics
Insulated Tea Cup
http://www.unfold.be/pages/projects/items/3d-printer

30. 3D printed tissues
Live cells in a printable medium
Direct Freeform Fabrication of Seeded Hydrogels in Arbitrary Geometries

31. 3. Factory of the Future
Distributed manufacturing.

32. Distributed Manufacturing
2001: Digital music files - iTunes
2004: Digital photo files - Flickr
2005: Digital video files - YouTube
2007: Digital 3d Products- Fab labs, personal 3d
printers and Ponoko
http://cba.mit.edu/events/11.08.FAB7/Elley.pdf

33. Business model
Far (China)
(pre mfg infrastructure) (volume efficiencies)
1 100 1,000 10,000
Units
(prototype) (flexible manufacturing)
Close
From Chris Andersons presentation Fab7 2011

34. Pononko.com
http://cba.mit.edu/events/11.08.FAB7/Elley.pdf

35. Materials
Card
Fabric
Metal
Plastic
Rubber
MDF
Plywood
wwww.Ponoko.com

36. What can I make at Ponoko?
UFO Classic lamp
http://www.ponoko.com/design-your-own/products/ufo-classic--6251

37. What can I make at Ponoko?
Necklace Clock
http://www.ponoko.com/build-your-own/furniture/kirie-01-5730http://
www.ponoko.com/design-your-own/products/geodes-1614

38. What can I make at Ponoko?
Buy the CAD files and print your own.
http://www.ponoko.com/design-your-own/products/three-good-eggs-5602

39. Case study
MIDI Musical Instrument Digital Interface
http://new.ponoko.com/2010/10/nomoney/

40. Local ponoko maker hub
Razor Lab, London
http://www.razorlab.co.uk/

41. 4. Open Innovation

42. Crowd sourcing
Retrovirus enzyme folded to create ultimate crystal
structure.
http://fold.it/
http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/zoran/NSMBfoldit-2011.pdf

43. Open Source Car OScar
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OScar_(open_source_car)

44. Open Design Now
“openness is more than a
commercial and cultural issue.
it’s a matter of survival.” John
Thackara
“He who receives an idea from
me, receives instruction himself
without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine,
receives light without darkening
me.”
Thomas Jefferson
http://opendesignnow.org/

45. 5. Personal Experiences

46. CNC Kip

48. CNC Kip

49. The Future for Leeds
• Investigate building your own rapid prototyper
• Sign up to Ponoko and razor lab
• Make a visit to to Manchester Fab Lab.
• Set up a Leeds Fab Lab

50. Factories
of the
Future
Jane Keats
21 September 2011
Leeds Inventors Group