Keyword: Fabber / Rapid Prototyping

Rapid Prototyping is the more official term
• Fabbers are universal fabrication machines
  • Materialize three-dimensional things from digital data
  • Typically by "baking" some amorphous, fine-grained material
    Allow for constructing things which are difficult to create otherwise
  • Actually exist
    Today: Mostly used for building models
• Fabbers have some interesting features
  • Link digital data and material world closely
    Bringing the logic of digital data to the material world
  • Universal for (parts of) material production
    Like computers for information: "One machine to rule them all"
  • Allow material production for individual needs
• Industrial robots are equally interesting

Fabbers transfer important aspects of the digital world to matter