{"id":10011,"date":"2018-01-15T19:44:11","date_gmt":"2018-01-15T19:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.3dtech.co.il\/digital-fabrication-for-small-scale-production\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T19:47:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T19:47:06","slug":"digital-fabrication-for-small-scale-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/3dtech.co.il\/?p=10011","title":{"rendered":"Digital fabrication for small scale production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>MAPPING <\/span><span>TERRITORY<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/3dtech.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/archive-5d86aac35afb.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:auto\">Digital communications enables cheap long-distance connections and digital computation enables cheap, universal and efficient computers. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Digital fabrication enables cheap, efficient and universal fabrication. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Building digitally will reduce the complexity of the assembling and can produce a wider variety of objects for a smaller cost.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>George A. Popescu M.Sc<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Thesis Supervisor: Professor Neil Gershenfeld<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Title: MIT Media Laboratory<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>New digital fabrication technologies have completely changed how prototypes and unique parts are made, yet they have not met expectation to enable low cost, small scale manufacturing.<\/span><\/p>\n<h1>The research question :<\/h1>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Can we use digital fabrication methods to create\u00a0 constructive, human scale, affordable products?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<table width=\"565\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<h1><strong>Researched<\/strong><\/h1>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<h1><strong>Not Researched<\/strong><\/h1>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span>Trend analysis<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span>Possible Constructive Materials <\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span>Existing digital fabrication methods<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span>Workshops tour<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span>Welding technologies<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span>Fabrication methods ideation<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span>Accessible components analysis<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span>Software and control systems<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span>Prosumers<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span>Coreless structures<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span>Minimal building block<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span>Economic implications<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><span>Use cases analysis<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Gantt chart for research<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/3dtech.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/archive-32a616a0aeb4.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:auto\"><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MAPPING TERRITORY Digital communications enables cheap long-distance connections and digital computation enables cheap, universal and efficient computers. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Digital fabrication enables cheap, efficient and universal fabrication. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Building digitally will reduce the complexity of the assembling and can produce a wider variety of objects for a smaller cost. George A. Popescu M.Sc Thesis Supervisor: Professor Neil Gershenfeld [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/3dtech.co.il\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/3dtech.co.il\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/3dtech.co.il\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3dtech.co.il\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3dtech.co.il\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/3dtech.co.il\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10090,"href":"https:\/\/3dtech.co.il\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10011\/revisions\/10090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/3dtech.co.il\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3dtech.co.il\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3dtech.co.il\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}