Description
3D Robotics co-founder and bestselling author Chris Anderson takes you to the front lines of a new industrial revolution as today’s entrepreneurs, using open source design and 3-D printing, bring manufacturing to the desktop.
In an age of custom-fabricated, do-it-yourself product design and creation, the collective potential of a million garage tinkerers and enthusiasts is about to be unleashed, driving a resurgence of American manufacturing. A generation of “Makers” using the Web’s innovation model will help drive the next big wave in the global economy, as the new technologies of digital design and rapid prototyping gives everyone the power to invent--creating “the long tail of things”.
Table of Contents
Part One The Revolution
1. The Invention Revolution
2. The New Industrial Revolution
3. The History of the Future
4. We Are All Designers Now
5. The Long Tail of Things
Part Two. The Future
6. The Tools of Transformation
Four Desktop Factories
7. Open Hardware
8. Reinventing the Biggest Factories of All
9. The Open Organization
10. Financing the Maker Movement
11. Maker Businesses
12. The Factory in the Cloud
13. DIY Biology
Epilogue The New Shape of the Industrial World
Appendix: The 21st Century Workshop
Getting started with CAD
Getting started with 3-D printing
Getting started with 3-D scanning
Getting started with laser cutting
Getting started with CNC machines
Getting started with electronics
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
