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Index
Cover
Chapter 1: Everything is becoming science fiction
Chapter 2: A machine that can make almost anything
Printing three-dimensional things
The ten principles of 3D printing
Chapter 3: Nimble manufacturing: Good, fast, and cheap
Somewhere between mass production and the local farmer’s market
The blank canvas of the 21st century
Chapter 4: Tomorrow’s economy of printable products
Like ants with factories
The experience economy
A future economy of printable products
Chapter 5: Printing in layers
A manufacturing process at heart
Two families of printers
Cleaning up design files
The raw materials
Chapter 6: Design software, the digital canvas
A word processor for drawing
Today’s design software
What you design is not (necessarily) what you print
The next generation of design software: digital capture
Chapter 7: Bioprinting in “living ink”
The printer of youth
Tissue engineering
CAD for the body
The future
Chapter 8: Digital cuisine
Digital gastronomy
Feeding the quantified self
Processed food
Chapter 9: A factory in the classroom
Make to learn: Children’s engineering
Not a national crisis . . . but learning should be enjoyable
Now let’s see you draw that abstract equation on a graph
Barriers to classroom adoption
The road ahead
Chapter 10: Unleashing a new aesthetic
Computers that act like nature
Printing wavy walls and custom gargoyles
Chapter 11: Green, clean manufacturing
A tale of two plastic toys
Greener manufacturing
3D printing a more beautiful landfill
Chapter 12: Ownership, safety, and new legal frontiers
Printing weapons, drugs, and shoddy products
Rip, mix, and burn physical things
Exclusivity vs. the freedom to innovate
Chapter 13: Designing the future
Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.
A bicycle for our imagination
The language of shapes
Changing the shape of design tools
Chapter 14: The next episode of 3D printing
The three episodes of 3D printing
Cofabrication of multiple materials
Moving from printing passive parts to active systems
The final episode—from analog to digital
Machines making machines
References
About the Authors
Credits
Acknowledgments
Preface
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