> I almost forgot to share this article from last week - the 3D printing
> community has mused about the possibility of manufacturers making STL
> files available so that customers can print their own replacement parts,
> and it looks like we now have the first instance of that happening:http://www.wired.com/design/2012/09/synthesizer-lets-you-3-d-print-yo...

> On 10/10/2012 12:40 PM, Ed Hagopian wrote:

> > Of course Haveblue is mentioned. But this is exhaustively covers most
> > of the topics surrounding digital fabrication.
> >http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/138154/neil-gershenfeld/how-to...
> > Article Summary and Bio:

> > In recent decades, the world has been rocked by revolutions in the
> > digitization of computation and communication. Now the physical world
> > is being digitized, thanks to new technologies that can turn data into
> > things and things into data. Digital fabrication will let people build
> > custom home furniture, living organs out of cells, and drones that can
> > fly out of a printer; science fiction is becoming industrial fact.

> > NEIL GERSHENFELD is a Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of
> > Technology and the head of MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms.

> > His TED presentation in 2006:

> >http://www.ted.com/talks/neil_gershenfeld_on_fab_labs.html

> > And associated links:

> > # _*Website:* Neil Gershenfeld at MIT_ <http://ng.cba.mit.edu/>
> > # _*Website:* The Center for Bits and Atoms_ <http://cba.mit.edu/>
> > # _*Website:* Fab Central_ <http://fab.cba.mit.edu/>
> > # _*Wikipedia:* Neil Gershenfeld_
> > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Gershenfeld>
> > # _*Book:* /Fab/_
> > <http://www.amazon.com/Fab-Revolution-Desktop-Computers-Fabrication/dp...>
> > # _*Book:* /When Things Start to Think/_
> > <http://www.amazon.com/When-Things-Start-Think-Gershenfeld/dp/B00008NR...>
> > # _*Book:* /Nature of Mathematical Thinking/_
> > <http://www.amazon.com/Nature-Mathematical-Modeling-Neil-Gershenfeld/d...>
> > # _*Book:* /The Physics of Information Tech/_
> > <http://www.amazon.com/Physics-Information-Technology-Neil-Gershenfeld...>
> > # _*Website:* Things That Think_ <http://ttt.media.mit.edu/>
> > --