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December 16, 2022

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• Our annual How To Make (almost) Anything open house will be at 5:00 on Tuesday December 20, on the 6th floor of MIT's building E14:\ \

https://fab.cba.mit.edu/classes/863.22

\ Visitors can sign up for access here:\ \

https://tim-tickets.atlas-apps.mit.edu/QPqGFuNt7NwCMy7YA

\ - Videos are posted for the workshop we hosted on Open Metrology:\ \

[https://cba.mit.edu/events/22.08.OM/](https://cba.mit.edu/events/22.08.OM)

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and for the Bali Fab Fest:\
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<https://bali.fabevent.org>

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- CBA teams published papers on robots making robots:\
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  <https://news.mit.edu/2022/assembler-robots-structures-voxels-1122>

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  which they describe here:\
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  <https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct31zc>

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  on *How To Grow (almost) Anything*:\
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  <https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-022-01601-x>

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  on Web-based algorithmic electronics design:\
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  <https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3559400.3562004>

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  on minimal machine building:\
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  <https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3559400.3565599>

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  on materials for lifecycle regenerative agriculture:\
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  <https://materiom.org/reports/wege>

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  and contributed to making smaller, lighter batteries:\
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  <https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2542435122005207>

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  - We're pleased to announce that the newest tool we're adding to our digital fabrication facility is a Formlabs Fuse 1+, for Selective Laser Sintering of high-performance parts with complex geometries:\
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    <https://formlabs.com/3d-printers/fuse-1>

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    - A CBA patent has issued for the discrete assembly of cuboctahedron lattice materials:\
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      <https://ppubs.uspto.gov/pubwebapp/external.html?q=(11498250).pn.&db=USPAT&type=ids>

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      - In January Neil Gershenfeld will be celebrating fab labs in Amsterdam:\
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        <https://waag.org/en/event/celebrating-makers-amsterdam>

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        and kicking off "lab fab" at the superlab in Greece:\
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        [https://www.demokritos.gr/](https://www.demokritos.gr)

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        - We wish you a happy and healthy holiday season, and hope to see as many of you as possible in person as well as online in the coming year.

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