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    AtFAB Photographs

    At last, furniture samples put together and ready for a close-up. Over the past few days, we assembled and photographed 16+ furniture samples that we fabricated last month. Here are a few pieces in unfinished walnut and pre-finished plain…

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    AtFAB Production Prototypes

    We have been hard at work, fabricating final production prototypes for the AtFAB furniture line. This past summer, we went through the entire AtFAB series and refined the proportions of 10 pieces so that function, material and transport efficiency…

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    PGDP Super Model

    Our largest interactive model to date for the DoE of the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant is designed for large teams to share, communicate, understand, and plan a future for the PGDP…

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    Makers for Teachers

    Bill Young of ShopBot Tools is getting ready for the 2013 NY Maker Faire, tabbing AtFAB and other CNC Furniture items to barter for donations to the Makery. Here, Bill tests out a color blocking technique by pre-painting sheets…

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    AtFAB Joins Forces with OpenDesk!

    We are delighted to announce that we’re teaming up with OpenDesk.cc to distribute AtFAB Open Source furniture files. Filson and Rohrbacher is bringing the entire AtFAB furniture design library to OpenDesk’s powerful Open Source product showroom…

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    Support AtFAB on Kickstarter!

    We just launched our first ever campaign on Kickstarter to begin manufacturing AtFAB through a distributed CNC fabrication network. Make your own furniture from AtFAB cut files, or have a finished piece delivered flatpack to your door…

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    Send Us YourFAB – Modification Edition

    The number of AtFAB file downloads keeps growing, and we’ve received some amazing images from makers around the globe who have modified the designs in ways we couldn’t imagine…

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    Renderings to Reality at MIT

    After weeks of design, simulation, and analysis through many methods of digital visualization, the exhibition becomes reality. And, though we know we anticipated and tested every detail, we were definitely taken aback at how much the realization felt like…

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    Incremental Change

    We are finalizing details for Incremental Change – an exhibition that opens at MIT’s Keller Gallery next week. We’ve designed the exhibition as a status report of the increasing global reach of AtFAB CNC Furniture downloads, and to make…

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