POP-UP FACTORY
At the Pop-Up Factory in the exhibit hall of Solid 2015, conference attendees could witness the real-time production of Alike bands.
The factory itself consisted of an assembly line for circuit board production (solder stenciling, pick and place machine, solder reflow, hand soldering, programming/test) as well as a wall of 12 Form 1+ 3D printers churning out algorithmically designed plastic enclosures. In the final assembly step, workers mated the unique 3D printed enclosures with an injection molded part, a neoprene wrist band, and the newly assembled circuit boards.
As with all good product production/shipping phases, a significant amount of design, manufacturing, and logistics work went into the preparation of this installation. A postmortem discussion amongst the project leads on the keynote stage of Solid 2015 can be found in the gallery on this page.
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Seeed Studio factory walkthrough
Special thanks to Jon Bruner, Marcelo Coelho, Mengmeng Chen, Will Walker, Colin Raney, Seeed Studio, Formlabs, ANT Wireless, ProtoLabs, and O'Reilly Media for making this installation possible.
Pictures and videos by Formlabs, David Cranor, Marcelo Coelho, and O'Reilly Media
