CBA News & Notes
December 13, 2019
- The annual How To Make (almost) Anything open house will be held from 5:00-6:30 on Tuesday December 17th on the sixth floor of MIT's building E14:
- Filippos Tourlomousis' work on cell-scale printing was featured in The Economist:
and was selected as one of the 5 Coolest Things On Earth:
- Congratulations to Pranam Chatterjee for receiving the Top Young Scientist Award at the Frontiers in Genome Engineering 2019 conference:
and to Will Langford for receiving a Best Student Paper award for his work on a discretely assembled walking motor:
Will's work is covered here:
- Ben Jenett, Amira Abdel-Rahman, and Kenny Cheung wrote about a material–robot system for assembly of discrete cellular structures:
which was covered here:
- Sam Calisch and collaborators wrote about accomplishing the long-standing goal of creating moving boundary layers for significant drag reduction:
- We're pleased to welcome Oldendorff Carriers as a Principal sponsor, with a focus on disruptive improvements in ship design and propulsion to achieve the International Maritime Organization environmental targets:
and we're pleased to welcome Standard Bank as a Principal sponsor, with a focus on fostering sustainable rapid-prototyping of housing in Africa:
- A CBA-Toyota team created a high-efficiency race car based on discrete voxel assembly:
- CBA alum entrepreneurs spoke and presented their work at the Founders Forum:
- Here's Neil Gershenfeld talking about open source hardware:
the transition from Moore's Law to Lass' Law:
and the impact of making:
- CBA co-hosted a Congressional briefing on the National Fab Lab Network Act:
- Media has been posted from events CBA co-hosted on digital fabrication:
the 50th anniversary of the Internet:
and interspecies communication:
The last is described here:
- CBA patents have issued for digital flexural materials:
and discretely assembled logic blocks:
- We've added computerized knitting:
and injection molding:
to our digital fabrication facility.
- Best wishes from your friends and colleagues at CBA for the holiday season and the coming year.
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