Digital Fabrication: Manipulating the Matter of Tech

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Historically, computing encompassed one-dimensional Input/Output using command line interfaces. The GUI and mouse brought 2D I/O to computing, and later VR and 3D Scanning allowed for 3D I/O. The next thing is interacting with matter as I/O for computing: Digital Fabrication. This course teaches fabrication techniques, and how to leverage it to control physical matter. This will allow you to develop hardware or understand how to talk to hardware developers within your team. We will dive down to the bare bones of fabrication machines by creating custom slicers to control 3D printers using basic coding. We will take apart existing products to study how they were made and build entirely new products from scratch.