Digital Fabrication

I'm fascinated by digital fabrication, especially 3D printing.

Bloomington Fabrication Group (BFabs)

In early 2011 Ben Zaitlen and I started a digital fabrication and Arduino club at Indiana University, shortly after I integrated Arduino art electronics and physical computing into Indiana's honors introductory computer science course, H211. The club started with an Eggbot and a first-generation MakerBot Cupcake CNC printer, designed by the amazing Zach 'Hoeken' Smith. I left IU for the University of Utah in January 2013, and was worried that the club might die. I'm very pleased that three outstanding undergrads, Gavin, Jimmy, and Luke, have successfully applied to make BFabs an official IU student-run club. Well done, ponies!

The club currently has four 3D printers, including a first generation MakerBot Replicator. Sadly, since Zach left the company, MakerBot has turned its back on its Open Source roots, so the club's next purchase may be an Ultimaker, or more likely a Free Software Foundation approved Lulzbot, or perhaps a printer from Josef Prusa, who has the Open Source Hardware logo tattooed on his forearm.

To learn more about the club, see the BFabs blog or website.

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