fabbers

Ennex is a company that builds "fabbers" -- computer-controlled devices that automatically manufacture devices to software-specified designs.

Boing Boing: September 2, 2001 - September 8, 2001 Archives 2001

Potentially, these might involve using three-dimensional printers, also known as fabbers, including open source ones:

LXer Linux News 2009

A wiki page fab@home with instructions to make "fabbers", machines that can make almost anything, right on your desktop.

Public Rambling Pedro Beltrao 2006

A wiki page fab@home with instructions to make "fabbers", machines that can make almost anything, right on your desktop.

Archive 2006-11-01 Pedro Beltrao 2006

THE FAB SHOW, Features a variety of 3-D artwork created from digital data as well as "fabbers": machines that can be used to create such items.

The Clog 2009

THE FAB SHOW, Features a variety of 3-D artwork created from digital data as well as "fabbers": machines that can be used to create such items.

The Clog 2009

Specifically, it's an open specs project for developing desktop 3D printers, or (as the Fab@Home project labels them) "fabbers".

Chad Perrin: SOB 2008

Now, fabbers have two types of security systems built in.

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Industrial designers have had access for years to fabbers that use powerful lasers to fuse plastic powder — great for mocking up jet turbines or architectural plans — but with a price tag of tens of thousands of dollars, 3-D printing has been out of reach for most of us.

Finally, Yes You Too Can Have a Replicator! | Disinformation 2008

First time I wrote about fabbers -- those 3-D printers -- was twelve, fourteen years ago, and I'm not offering that technology isn't changing the world.

Steal This Movie! Steven Barnes 2009