Fab The Coming Revolution on Your

What if you had MIT's tools on your desktop? Welcome to the world of Fab, where Neil Gershenfeld helps people create their heart's desire-ranging from the whimsical, like an alarm clock that must be wrestled into silence and a parrot-accessible Internet browser, to the revolutionary, including solar cooling and agricultural instruments in Africa and India. Book jacket.

Neil Gershenfeld is the Director of MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms, and the former director of its famed Media Lab. The author of numerous technical publications, patents, and books, including When Things Start to Think, he has been featured in media such as the New York Times, The Economist, CNN, and PBS. He lives in Somerville, Massachusetts.

How To Make...	p. 1
...Almost Anything	p. 19
The Past	p. 29
Hardware	p. 43
The Present	p. 53
Birds and Bikes	p. 57
Subtraction	p. 67
Growing Inventors	p. 77
Addition	p. 93
Building Models	p. 103
Description	p. 121
Playing at Work	p. 133
Computation	p. 149
Making Sense	p. 161
Instrumentation	p. 173
Net Work	p. 181
Communication	p. 197
Art and Artillery	p. 207
Interaction	p. 219
The Future	p. 227
Joy	p. 245
The Details	p. 255
Index	p. 265
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Fab The Coming Revolution on Your Desktop--from Personal Computers to Personal Fabrication

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