Fab: The Coming Revolution on Your Desktop - from Personal Computers to Personal Fabrication

https://www.amazon.com/Fab-Revolution-Desktop-Computers-Fabrication/dp/0465027466

Published 2007.

Wired Article

https://www.wired.com/story/the-future-of-fab-lab-fabrication/

OSE Commentary

• Currently, all the fab lab tools are proprietary, and therefore more expensive than if they were open source. This is an area of opportunity.
• Few to none of the designs emerging from FabLabs or makerspaces include refined production engineering, thus preventing widespread replicability. This is an opportunity for improvement.
• Fabeconomy - see links at - https://www.fabeconomy.com/
• Fab Lab Connect - https://www.fablabconnect.com/award/fab-replication-grant-requirements/ - license of projects is not open source (NC)
• See discussion at Industrial_Productivity_on_a_Small_Scale#Why_has_industrial_productivity_not_been_achieved_in_the_Maker_Movement.3F