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- noun A small
manufacturing plant able to make solid, three-dimensional objects fromdigital data
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Examples
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The fabber is more about allowing designers to experiment with ideas than making anything in particular.
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A basic 3D printer, also known as a fabricator or "fabber", now costs less than a laser printer did in 1985.
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A basic 3D printer, also known as a fabricator or "fabber," now costs less than a laser printer did in 1985.
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Just how complex and large a 'fabber' do you need to take sand as a raw material and create an x billion gate chip to provide your spime with intelligence?
unknown title 2008
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The list of things the fabber could make scrolls down my HUD, none of which are sidearms.
365 tomorrows » 2010 » April : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2010
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I slap two finger onto the bluetouch pad, establishing a link between the fabber and my phone, resting in my pocket.
365 tomorrows » 2010 » April : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2010
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The technology goes by many names — 3-D printer; rapid prototyper; fabber — but the concept is the same: Feed a device with blueprints for a solid object of your choosing, then let the machine build it for you from plastic or other simple materials.
Finally, Yes You Too Can Have a Replicator! | Disinformation 2008
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As soon as a robot walks out of the printer, Lipson says, Malone can walk out of the lab with his Ph.D. Q: What sort of things are people printing with your fabber?
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About the size of a microwave, the fabber costs $2,300 to assemble — roughly one tenth the cost of commercial 3-D printers.
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If you had a fabber, you could custom-make shoes that perfectly fit your feet.
hedges commented on the word fabber
Quoted from wikipedia "The term fabber (short for “digital fabricator�?) refers to a small, self-contained factory that can make objects described by digital data. Fabbers make three-dimensional, solid objects that can be used as models, as prototypes, or as delivered products."
December 11, 2006