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A Fab at Home Fabber

Fab at Home is a project dedicated to making and using fabbers - machines that
can make almost anything, right on your desktop. This website provides
everything you need to know in order to build or buy your own simple fabber,
and to use it to print three dimensional objects. The hardware designs and
software on this website are free and open-source. Once you have your own
fabber, you can also download and print various items, try out new materials,
or upload and share your own projects. Advanced users can modify and improve
the fabber itself.

Fabbers (a.k.a. 3D printers or rapid prototyping machines) are a relatively
new form of manufacturing that builds 3D objects by carefully depositing
materials drop by drop, layer by layer. With the right set of materials and a
geometric blueprint, you can fabricate complex objects that would normally
take special resources, tools and skills if produced using conventional
manufacturing techniques. A fabber can allow you to explore new designs,
email physical objects to other fabber owners, and most importantly - set
your ideas free. Just as MP3s, iPods and the Internet have freed musical
talent, we hope that blueprints and fabbers will democratize innovation.

Most commercial 3D Printers today are limited to one material at a time, and
their proprietary technologies limit experimentation. Moreover, their price
range - tens of thousands, to hundreds of thousands of dollars - is typically
well beyond what an average home user can afford. Our goal with this
open-source, multi-material printing is to explore the potential of universal
fabrication: Machines that can use multiple materials to fabricate complete,
active systems. Keep reading...


    * To read more overview - Visit Project Overview 

    * To get Fab at home, and start building - Visit Getting Started 

    * Questions? - Please visit the Frequently Asked Questions page 

    * Click here to download most of the content of this site in PDF format 

Fab at Home News

21:04, 14 June 2009 (UTC): Fab at Home has received a brief mention in a text
book intended for secondary school, titled Engineering & Technology (ISBN-10:
141807389X ISBN-13: 9781418073893), published by Delmar / Cengage Learning.
Fab at Home is presented as an example of the new technology of
"microfactories". Photos and a description are included in Chapter 4:
Materials and Materials Processing, p. 165.

20:20, 14 June 2009 (UTC): Personal Fabrication Technology has been named one
of the 2009 Innovations That Could Change the Way You Manufacture by the
Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME). Dr. Evan Malone of the Fab at Home
Project, and Terry Wohlers of Wohlers Associates were invited to speak on the
topic.

15:38, 19 May 2009 (UTC): Fab at Home is being featured in The FAB Show, an
exhibition of art and technology of additive manufacturing at the Klein Art
Gallery of the University City Science Center, in Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Newsweek has a brief mention of the exhibition as well.

12:00, 22 January 2009 (UTC): The Koba Industries Fabber store is now the
NextFab Store and we are still having a Fabber Sale. All clear chassis kits
are $2750.00US. For ordering and information please contact: Kenji Kondo

11:00, 21 November 2008 (UTC): Koba Industries Inc. is having a Fabber Sale.
All clear chassis kits are $2750.00US. For ordering and information please
contact: Kenji Kondo

07:00, 18 September 2008 (MDT): Version 0.23a of Fab at Home has been released.
This version include an important fix that affects all users that use
FindSafe button. Now the limits switch for motors U and V are enabled by
default. Please test it, and comment about its performance and bugs. Thank
you for your help with testing! Contribution from The Renato Archer Center of
Information Technology - CTI (Campinas, Brazil).

17:06, 29 August 2008 (UTC): The design and engineering of the next
generation of Fab at Home systems has begun! If you are interested in
contributing in any way to this effort, please see the notice on the
discussion forum...

20:09, 21 August 2008 (UTC): Koba Industries Inc. has created the first
wooden fabber! In addition to being the most beautiful fabber we've made,
it's also the most customizable - easily modified with standard woodworking
tools.