March 23-27

Monday :: March 23, 2009
During today's class we discussed the reading covering a broad history of digital fabrication. It was interesting the conversation that arose. We discussed how people relate to a digitally fabricated object verse a hand crafted object. We also were able to discuss how our knowledge of the process a computer must take to actually mold, carve, build something affects how we approach a design problem with a computer.

Wednesday :: March 25, 2009
Today we led the class in discussion regarding the recently completed digital fabrication project. For the most part we received good feedback. We assembled the final project and passed it around. During this class we were also able to field questions regarding digital fabrication as a whole and cover a number of interesting case studies.

Friday :: March 27, 2009
Today we were able to discuss the current status of our research projects with our piers. Here is a synopsis of others projects:
Mark is interested in personal fabrication. He had originally looked into creating a file that he could sell and others could "print" on the CNC router. He has now looking at the emergence and future projection of "desktop fabrication."
Lee is interested in how digital fabrication has affected the development and production of gulf clubs. He intends to took at several case studies and report on his findings.