http://www.audioactivism.org/2005/06/14/personal-fabrication/ Metadata about *Media* Activism Sat, 05 May 2007 06:45:03 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.audioactivism.org/2005/06/14/personal-fabrication/comment-page-1/#comment-321 Brian R. Thu, 16 Jun 2005 03:27:12 +0000 http://www.audioactivism.org/2005/06/14/personal-fabricationpersonal-fabrication/#comment-321 Something I failed to make clear in my post... the fabrication equipment that was described by Gershenfeld can make <strong>all kinds of stuff.</strong> Not just electronic devices w/ PC boards and microchips. Check out <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,64864,00.html" rel="nofollow">the stuff the kids in Ghana made.</a> Your point is interesting Stephen. Could you share some links to elaborate? :) Something I failed to make clear in my post… the fabrication equipment that was described by Gershenfeld can make all kinds of stuff. Not just electronic devices w/ PC boards and microchips. Check out the stuff the kids in Ghana made. Your point is interesting Stephen. Could you share some links to elaborate?

]]> http://www.audioactivism.org/2005/06/14/personal-fabrication/comment-page-1/#comment-316 Stephen Thu, 16 Jun 2005 03:04:34 +0000 http://www.audioactivism.org/2005/06/14/personal-fabricationpersonal-fabrication/#comment-316 Although it's easier and easier to build special-purpose physical devices (e.g., you can build a custom PCI card for PCs easily and cheaply nowdays), I think the point is that general-purpose processors make hardware projects fairly pointless these days. Anything you can do in hardware, you can do on a programmable platform these days. Although it’s easier and easier to build special-purpose physical devices (e.g., you can build a custom PCI card for PCs easily and cheaply nowdays), I think the point is that general-purpose processors make hardware projects fairly pointless these days. Anything you can do in hardware, you can do on a programmable platform these days.

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