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The Learning Webs Group at MIT Media Lab & Center for Bits and Atoms offers a comprehensive modular electronic development environment, focusing on toolkits, rapid prototyping, and personal fabrication for creating custom applications. Explore the goals, tools, layers, software, and workshops they offer to empower individuals in designing and developing their own tools efficiently.
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overview • goal • making it easy for everyone to design and develop their own tools and applications from scratch • toolkits • modular electronics development environment • tangible simulation and modeling toolkits • fabrication devices • low-cost high-end instrumentation Learning Webs Group MIT Media Laboratory & Center for Bits and Atoms
towera modular electronic development environment • flexible, extensible rapid prototyping tool • customizable, modular virtual machines • enabling a wide range of applications • interactive systems • communication and networking • simulation and modeling • personal fabrication • Learning, health, environmental monitoring Learning Webs Group MIT Media Laboratory & Center for Bits and Atoms
towera modular electronic development environment Learning Webs Group MIT Media Laboratory & Center for Bits and Atoms
towera modular electronic development environment • foundations • multiple processor support • Microchip PIC16F877 microcontroller • inexpensive • wide user-base • easy to use • Rabbit Semiconductor 2300 processor module • more RAM and Flash storage • an Ethernet port and TCP/IP stack • power and programming circuitry • full pin breakout to every layer Learning Webs Group MIT Media Laboratory & Center for Bits and Atoms
towera modular electronic development environment • layers • sensing • RS-232 and RS-485 serial communication • Ethernet connectivity • infrared and RF communication • audio/visual output • mechanical actuation • EEPROM and CompactFlash storage • rapid prototyping of new layers Learning Webs Group MIT Media Laboratory & Center for Bits and Atoms
towera modular electronic development environment • Software • a transparent modular integrated development environment • an interpreted programming language • assembler and programmer • data visualization tools Learning Webs Group MIT Media Laboratory & Center for Bits and Atoms
learning independence networka three day workshop Learning Webs Group MIT Media Laboratory & Center for Bits and Atoms
learning independence networka three day workshop Learning Webs Group MIT Media Laboratory & Center for Bits and Atoms
projectsfrom our last workshop Learning Webs Group MIT Media Laboratory & Center for Bits and Atoms
grand vision making a tower with a tower • milestones along the way… • making a personal computer • programming a tower with a tower • making a oscilloscope and logic analyzer • debugging a tower with a tower • making low-cost cutter/milling machine • controlled with a tower for fabricating new layers • new appropriate design tools for making • printed circuit boards • custom interfaces • development tools Learning Webs Group MIT Media Laboratory & Center for Bits and Atoms
cba fab labsclosing the design and manufacturing cycle • to enable design and fabrication of • printed circuit boards • 3d physical artifacts Learning Webs Group MIT Media Laboratory & Center for Bits and Atoms
cba fab labsclosing the design and manufacturing cycle • what is in a fab lab? • a tabletop cnc milling machine • a vinyl cutter • low-cost high-end instrumentation tools • uv-vis spectrometer • a network analyzer • two full tower systems • oscilloscope • a computer • a digital microscope • a collection of design software packages Learning Webs Group MIT Media Laboratory & Center for Bits and Atoms
personal fabricationmaking your own tower layer TOWER PIC-PROTO LAYER Learning Webs Group MIT Media Laboratory & Center for Bits and Atoms
cba fab labslow-cost high-end instrumentation • Instrumentation for environmental monitoring • network analyzer • uv-vis spectrometer Learning Webs Group MIT Media Laboratory & Center for Bits and Atoms
cba fab labsdomestic and international sites so far… • United States • E15-015 and E15-344 (Cube Electronics Lab) • INTEL Computer Clubhouse in Boston • Science Museum of Minnesota • Costa Rica • Institute of Technology • Scientific High School • Technical High School • India • Vigyan Ashram (will be set up next week) • Next sites under careful consideration • Africa • South America Learning Webs Group MIT Media Laboratory & Center for Bits and Atoms