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Voted one of the top 25 books of 2013 in China by Chinese readers! Fabricated tells the story of 3D printers, humble manufacturing machines that are bursting out of the factory and into homes, businesses, schools, kitchens, hospitals, even the fashion catwalk. The magic happens when you plug a 3D printer into today's mind-boggling digital technologies. Add to that the Internet, tiny, low cost electronic circuitry, radical advances in materials science and biotech and voila! The result is an explosion of technological and social innovation.

Fabricated provides readers with practical and imaginative insights to the question "how will 3D printing technologies change my life?" Based on hundreds of hours of research and dozens of interviews with experts from a broad range of industries, Fabricated offers readers an informative, engaging and fast-paced introduction to 3D printing now and in the future.
Chapters and contentsChapter 1: Everything is becoming science fiction. What would "just another regular day" look like in a future, 3D printable world?
Chapter 2: A machine that can make almost anything. Information morphed from analog form to digital. Will physical objects be next? Ten key principles explain 3D printing's disruptive power.
Chapter 3: Nimble manufacturing. Emerging business models lie somewhere between mass production and the local farmer's market. Small-batch manufacturing is becoming profitable, freeing entrepreneurs from the tyranny imposed by economies of scale.
Chapter 4: Tomorrow's economy of printable products. 3D printing, low-cost design and manufacturing technologies create new market opportunities as consumers increasingly crave on-demand, custom "experience" products.
Chapter 5: Printing in layers. For those of a technological bent, a deep dive into the inner workings of the 3D printing process.
Chapter 6: Design software, the digital canvas. Without an attached computer, a 3D printer is just an elaborate paperweight. An overview of design software and "digital capture."
Chapter 7: Bioprinting in "living ink." Design software and 3D printers read medical scans to fabricate living tissue and custom artificial joints. How long before all of us can tap into this Fountain of Youth?
Chaper 8: Digital cuisine. Today you can 3D print "high resolution" and delicious shortbread, chocolate figurines and tortillas. In the future, Quantified Selfers and couch potatoes alike will balance their diets by streaming biometrics to a food printer.
Chapter 9: A factory in the classroom. Primary and middle school teachers teach "children's engineering" using vivid, hands-on lesson plans.Chapter 10: Unleashing a new aesthetic. 3D printers are the output device computer-savvy artists, designers and architects have been waiting for.
Chapter 11: Green, clean manufacturing. What's cleaner to make? A 3D printed plastic toy or a mass-produced plastic toy? 3D printers may introduce greener living... or help us drown in a rising tidal wave of plastic junk.
Chapter 12: Ownership, safety and legal frontiers. Technology evolves faster than the law. Consumer safety and intellectual property laws will stretch to deal with printed weapons, counterfeit products and unregulated custom-made products.
Chapter 13: Designing the future. Why was Star Trek's Replicator used only to make Earl Grey tea? Because once we shape our tools, then our tools shape us. Next-generation design software will unshackle our imaginations, giving us new ways to imagine and edit the physical world.
Chapter 14: The next episode of 3D printing. What lies ahead? Watercolor artists create infinite hues by blending primary colors. Regular people will design and blend standard materials -- or micro-scale electronic components -- and "print" them out in fine, meticulously patterned sprays. The result? Weird and wacky new materials. Robots that walk out of the 3D printer. Ready-made, responsive smart materials.

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"Lucid and understandable to the layman [...] not one of those popular books by a self-styled "expert" rushed to press to become a quick bestseller - [a] serious and fascinating volume that points the way to the future."> --Jerusalem Post, April 13 , 2014
"It's most definitely a go-to book for anyone with kids looking for a comprehensive look of 3DP technology and where's it's heading."
-- James Floyd Kelly, Geekdad

"Astonishing, and a page turner even with all the legal and technical details and speculation." -- Library Picks

"What makes Fabricated different is that it seeks to explore the implications of this work, not just cheerlead for it. Lipson and Kurman survey the field, travelling to England to interview the creator of the open-source RepRap and to Utah to investigate work on CADきゃど for the human body." -- ZDNet UK Book Reviews

"Fabricated is an excellent book to give to a friend, family member or co-worker who has heard of 3D printing, but may not know many details of how it works or what it can do. But it's also an interesting read for people who keep up to date on technology." -- Dave Peterson, Geekbeat TV

The authors ... have done their homework... the book is an easy, interesting read that serves as both primer and, perhaps, prognostication.
-- ScienceNews Bookshelf
"Roboticist Hod Lipson and technology writer Melba Kurman bring great experience and intelligence to introducing the thirty-year history of 3D printing to general audiences... But many of the strengths and pleasures of the book derive from speculation about 3D printing in the near, middle, and distant futures." -- Matt Griffin, Make Magazine

"This book is a must-read for those in manufacturing and for those that want to know what the technology trend of the future will be." -- Hub Pages: Books, Literature, and Writing

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People frequently ask us "how can I predict how 3D printing technologies will affect me? My job? The things I care about or do for fun?" While interviewing experts for Fabricated, we discovered that diverse users had some things in common, a set of core reasons why 3D printing enabled them to expand the limits of what they do. We wrote up these recurring observations and called them the Ten Principles of 3D Printing.
The Ten Principles of 3D Printing give us a roadmap into the future and explain why 3D printing will disrupt manufacturing and product design. A disruptive technology shrinks key barriers of time, cost or skill. Each Principle represents one core (and disruptive) characteristic of 3D printing that removes or reduces a core barrier of time, cost or skill (or all three).
Ten Principles of 3D PrintingPrinciple one: Manufacturing complexity is free. On a 3D printer, it costs as much to make a simple cube as it does an elaborate and complex object of the same material. This is disruptive since in traditional mass manufacturing, complex geometries (elaborate shapes) cost more to produce in terms of time and skill. Free complexity will disrupt traditional pricing models and change how we calculate the cost of manufacturing things.
Principle two: Variety is free. Like a human artisan, a single 3D printer can fabricate many different shapes. The intelligence lies in the computer, not in a machinist who must re-tool the way the machine is set up. Free variety reduces the cost of customization and gives a single entrepreneur the ability to create many different types of 3D printed products on a single printer.

Principle three: No assembly required. A 3D printer can print a hinge, a bicycle chain or even a nested set of Russian Dolls in a single "print job," no assembly required. Traditional manufacturing machines make parts which must be assembled. The more parts a product contains, the longer it takes to put together, the longer the supply chain and the more expensive it becomes to make. Reduced part count saves on assembly, reduces inventory and shortens supply chains.
Principle four: Zero lead time. A 3D printer can print on demand, when an object is needed. Lead time, the time lapsed between a product's conception and its actual manufacture, is a core competitive differentiator. 3D printed, on-the-spot manufacturing will liberate companies from stockpiling physical inventory. Product design will accelerate; custom, on-demand products made in direct response to customer demand will become financially feasible.
Principle five: Unlimited design space. The 3D printing process, since it builds objects layer by layer, is capable of making physical shapes that were once impossible to make. It's simple to 3D print hollow objects, interlocked objects, precise and complex internal structures. With a 3D printer, we can create objects that once only nature could make, opening up vast new design possibilities.
Principle six: Zero skill manufacturing. Traditional manufacturing machines still demand that a skilled expert to adjust and calibrate them. A 3D printer gets most of its guidance from the design file. Once the design file is created, the printer can swing into action immediately. Unskilled manufacturing opens up new business models and could offer new modes of production for people in remote environments.
Principle seven: Compact, portable manufacturing. A 3D printer has a small footprint. A 3D printer is also compact, as the size of the object being printed can be nearly as large as the printer. In contrast, an injection molding machine can only make objects significantly smaller than itself. Even better, a 3D printer, if the "print head" can swing freely, can fabricate objects even larger than itself such as structures or furniture.
Principle eight: Less waste by-product. 3D printing is a precise process since objects are created in layers, not by carving away raw material or molding molten material into solid shapes. Machining metal is highly wasteful as an estimated 90 percent of the original metal gets ground off and ends up on the factory floor. Molding is a precise, low-waste manufacturing process but can only make simple shapes.
Principle nine: Infinite shades of materials. As 3D printers in the future gain the capacity to print with different types of raw materials in a single print job, we will witness the emergence of a new class of materials. Multi-material 3D printers can blend and combine different raw materials in precise blends. Digitally designed and precisely printed blends of materials will offer us a large and mostly unexplored palette of novel materials that have unusual properties or useful types of behaviors, for example wearable electronics or living tissue.
Principle ten: Precise physical replication. The 3D printing process relies on digital instructions. The ability of the 3D printer to precisely carry out digital instructions will bring the design freedom and malleability of the digital world to the physical world. Like digital music and media, physical objects will be scanned into digital form and then edited, copied or re-designed.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Wiley; 1st edition (February 11, 2013)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 280 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1118350634
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1118350638
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 15.2 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.9 x 1 x 8.9 inches

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Hod Lipson is a professor of engineering at Columbia University in New York city. His work on self-aware and self-replicating robots, food printing, and bio-printing has received widespread media coverage including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Time, and NPR.
Lipson has co-authored hundreds of papers and speaks frequently at high-profile venues such as TED and the National Academies. Hod directs the Creative Machines Lab, which pioneers new ways to make machines that create, and machines that are creative.
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My name is Melba Kurman and I am an author and technology analyst. My books explore the impact of emerging technologies on every day life. My most recent book, Driverless, gives readers an engaging and comprehensive introduction to self-driving cars, from their impact on established industries, to how they work.
My other books are about 3D printing and commercializing university research. My first book, "Tech Transfer 2.0" is about how universities manage their patent portfolios and spin off new technology startups. My second book, "Fabricated: the new world of 3D printing" sold more than 250,000 copies worldwide and was translated into eight languages.
I am a graduate of Cornell University, the University of Illinois and the U.S. Peace Corps.
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For more than a decade now I have been reviewing nonfiction books on Amazon.com. My reading covers a wide array of subject matter including history and politics, biographies, disasters, economics and business and even science and medicine from time to time. I love to tackle new subjects. A couple of months ago radio and television talk show host Glenn Beck introduced me to a fantastic new technology with the potential to change the world as we know it. Despite the fact that I am technically challenged I was bound and determined to learn more. I needed a book written in language that the average person could understand. I believe I have found just such a book in Hod Lipson and Melba Kurman's "Fabricated: The New World of 3D Printing". "Fabricated" is a comprehensive overview of this cutting-edge technology. Frankly, I was positively spellbound by what I learned and could not put the book down. And I am very pleased to report that for the most part I was actually able to comprehend what the authors were talking about.

What is so neat about 3D printers is that they offer the prospect of mankind exerting control over the physical world. In the future, people will be able to fabricate exactly what they need where and when they need it. So what do these new-fangled machines look like and exactly how do they work? According to the authors "a 3D printer can be small enough to fit into a tote bag or the size of a small mini-van. Printers can range in cost from a few hundred dollars to half a million dollars. Their unifying trait is that they follow instructions from a computer to place raw materials into layers to form a three-dimensional object." There are so many potential applications. Lipson and Kurman walk us through the intricate process of fabricating a number of different objects, some simple and others quite complex. Now the formal industry name for 3D printing is "additive manufacturing" which is very descriptive of how these machines actually work. As the authors point out "additive refers to the fact that 3D printing methods fabricate objects by either depositing or binding raw materials into layers to form solid three-dimensional objects". 3D printers will allow us to build products in shapes never before possible with conventional machinery while at the same time blending familiar materials into novel combinations. While it is important to realize that this technology is still in its infancy it might surprise you to learn that you may have already purchased a product created by a 3D printer. In "Fabricated" you will discover that 3D printers are already in use in such diverse industries as consumer electronics, automobiles, aerospace and even in the medical and dental fields. For example, the clear plastic braces that your twelve year old is wearing were probably made on a 3D printer!

The emergence of 3D printing has spurred some exciting new programs in our nation's classrooms. Fab@school helps teachers create curriculum that integrates science and 3D printing to teach core math and science concepts. The goal is to get elementary and middle school students excited about math and science and to introduce them to the fascinating world of engineering and design. These are the skills that are going to be in demand in the 21st century workplace. Meanwhile, on another front and Italian designer named Enrico Dini has devised a computer guided 3D printing construction method that uses sand and inorganic binder to create artificial sandstone. Just imagine the possibilities! Lipson and Kurman also introduce us to a scientist who is experimenting with a solar-powered 3D printer! As I said, the possibilities are virtually endless.

If you are intrigued by new technology, wondering what the potential business applications might be or are simply imbued with intellectual curiosity then I would strongly urge you to pick up a copy of "Fabricated: The New World of 3D Printing". There are so many ideas and so much information to digest here. It would appear that 3D printing would be most apropos for high end and custom made goods but that remains to be seen. Towards the end of the book Hod Lipson and Melba Kurman delve into the considerable legal, moral and ethical ramifications of all of this. There are copyright, patent and liability issues to ponder and when it comes to bioprinting major ethical issues to contemplate. I found "Fabricated" to a meticulously researched and very well-written book. In my view the authors have succeeded in their stated goal of making this material very accessible to the general reader. "Fabricated" is sprinkled with dozens of incredible photographs that will greatly enhance your understanding of the subject matter at hand. This is really exciting stuff and I learned an awful lot! A great choice for general readers as well. Very highly recommended!

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Fabricated by Lipson and Kurman describes the popular topic of 3D printing, but rather than explore the nuts and bolts of the technology, it looks at the prospects of 3D printing as an industry, making it a great read not only for technology enthusiasts, but also for investors, economists, and industry leaders.
3D printing has captured a fair share of media attention lately and some of the popular applications are mind boggling. But are they real? Are we on the verge of a 3D printing revolution that will create a new multi billion dollar industry or is this just enthusiasm with a cool technology? The authors explore this question from multiple facets and by the end of chapter 7 the reader may be disillusioned. Without a killer app it just will not happen, and many popular 3D printing ideas are either too far-fetched to become a killer app in the near future (e.g. organ printing) or not sufficient to generate large enough demand (e.g. spare parts).
However, then comes chapter 8, food printing. It almost seems that the first seven chapters were written merely to make the reader desperate enough to consider the idea. At first glance you may ask who on earth will print food? But by the end of the chapter hopefully you will `get it' and join the authors in their prediction that food printing is the most likely killer app for 3D printing, the application that will turn a cool technology into a mainstream product.
If not yet convinced, chapter 9 - education - is icing on the cake. The example of printing a play dough space shuttle with elementary school 2nd grade kids is intriguing and begs the question of why wouldn't mummy (or daddy) use her 3D printer backing machine from chapter 8 to make custom SpongeBob cookies with little Danny?
The book continues on the route of education and art and then delves into legal challenges that lay ahead as 3D printing becomes more common. Not just the media magnets like printing guns, but also the more common challenges of how our legal system may fall short in terms of IP protection and liability.
The final two chapters attempt to predict beyond the near future, demonstrating that our tendency to view innovation in incremental steps causes us to underestimate the full potential of 3D printing.
Overall, excellent read; once you're hooked it's hard to put down.

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If you know nothing about the emerging world of 3D printing, buy and read this book. It gives the reader the terminology and shares the excitement of this transformative technology. Unfortunately, some of the text is already outdated. Even so, I recommend this book as one of the best places to get introduced to the concepts.

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A very interesting and well written book about a revolutionary and upcoming field of technology.

After reading this book, you'll find it amazing that with physical chemistry, structural engineering, programming and electronics, you can make all your dreams come true.

Could you imagine being able to turn the elements into building blocks to use at your disposal?

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Un testo completo che, analizzato lo stato dell'arte, prova ad ipotizzare anche un prossimo futuro. Chiaro, semplice, esauriente. Se proprio vogliamo trovare un'area da sviluppare ulteriormente è quella rappresentata dalla comunità dei makers: dal DIY (Do It Yourself) al DIT (Do It Togheter).

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The book is in very good condition. It did not take long to arrive. The book is very, very interesting.

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