Project History
An advertisement in Popular Mechanics Sept 1923 depicts a crate joint in which each structural member overlaps the other two, and which uses bolts to secure them to each other.
Ken Isaacs designs the Matrix building system, uses it to teach students at Cranbrook Academy for the Arts and writes How to Build Your Own Living Structures.
Modular toys like Lego, Construx, Capcella, Erector, Lincoln Logs, Tinker Toys, Magnetix and Geomag, K'nex, and the Playmat 4 in 1 tool set inspire generations of inventive youth.
A Pattern Language and The Timeless Way of Building influence modular design in electronics, computers, and software development, as well as in manufacturing and production.
Phil and RJ Jergenson and Joy Livingwell compile 30 years of innovation around Ken's framing system into How to Build With Gridbeam
Erik Hunting wrote an influential blog about non-toxic shelter.
Early open source 3D printers are prototyped using 1 inch square steel perforated tubing as part of the wrench-built machine, RepRap Eiffel, and RepRap Pythagoras. Zach Hoeken writes Pull Yourself Together Bot!". The RepRap Building System is conceived.
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Fireball CNC prototype used to print first Darwin and Mendel parts
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RepRap Mendel
- Griddome
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Griddome supplies
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Griddome Jig
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Dome joint v1
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Griddome
- The Library of Radiant Optimism for Let's Re-Make the World
- OpenSCAD library, thingdoc fork, openjscad work
- Two years with Phil and RJ at The Summit
- How to Build Your Own Living Structures + A Pattern Language
- Lansing studio