Fab@Home Model 2: Towards Ubiquitous Personal Fabrication Devices
Jeffrey Lipton, Cohen, Daniel, Michael Heinz, Maxim Lobovsky, Warren Parad, Bernstein, Garrett, Tianyou Li, Justin Quartiere, Kamaal Washington, Abdul-Aziz Umaru, Rian Masanoff, Justin H. Granstein, Whitney Jordan, Hod Lipson · 2009
The open-architecture, open-source Fab@Home platform has proven to be an important system within the SFF community. In order to facilitate wider spread of the Fab@Home platform and SFF throughout the world, we aimed to improve critical aspects of the system, and business model. By changing the electronics package and streamlining the mechanics, the cost of the system was brought from $2500 to $1600. By changing the business model we hope to transform the SFF market and spur innovation.