Category:Digital Fabrication

Digital fabrication is a new kind of industry, enabled by emerging technologies, for turning digitally-stored designs into useful physical objects.

The aim of the Open Ecology movement is to catalyse a digital fabrication revolution, one that combines the industrial revolution and the digital revolution.

Digital fabrication is decentralized. It is no longer necessary to have large factories

Digital fabrication is free.

Digital fabrication is cheap.

Digital fabrication is customizable.

Digital fabrication empowers the poor.

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