LEADER 04453oam 2200805 450 001 9910554249803321 005 20220303221430.0 010 $a0-691-18971-4 024 7 $a10.1515/9780691189710 035 $a(CKB)4100000011774647 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6481380 035 $a(DE-B1597)576333 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780691189710 035 $a(OCoLC)1240711530 035 $a(PPN)265133726 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011774647 100 $a20210708d2021 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aThings fall together $ea guide to the new materials revolution /$fSkylar Tibbits 210 1$aPrinceton ;$aOxford :$cPrinceton University Press,$d[2021] 210 4$d©2021 215 $a1 online resource (225 pages) 311 $a0-691-17033-9 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tProgramming Matter --$tComputing Is Physical --$tOrder from Chaos --$tLess Is Smart --$tRobots without Robots --$tBuild from the Bottom Up --$tDesign from the Bottom Up --$tReverse, Reuse, Recycle --$tThe Future of Matter Is Evolving --$tNotes --$tReferences --$tIndex --$tImage Credits 330 $aFrom the visionary founder of the Self-Assembly Lab at MIT, a manifesto for the dawning age of active materialsThings in life tend to fall apart. Cars break down. Buildings fall into disrepair. Personal items deteriorate. Yet today's researchers are exploiting newly understood properties of matter to program materials that physically sense, adapt, and fall together instead of apart. These materials open new directions for industrial innovation and challenge us to rethink the way we build and collaborate with our environment. Things Fall Together is a provocative guide to this emerging, often mind-bending reality, presenting a bold vision for harnessing the intelligence embedded in the material world.Drawing on his pioneering work on self-assembly and programmable material technologies, Skylar Tibbits lays out the core, frequently counterintuitive ideas and strategies that animate this new approach to design and innovation. From furniture that builds itself to shoes printed flat that jump into shape to islands that grow themselves, he describes how matter can compute and exhibit behaviors that we typically associate with biological organisms, and challenges our fundamental assumptions about what physical materials can do and how we can interact with them. Intelligent products today often rely on electronics, batteries, and complicated mechanisms. Tibbits offers a different approach, showing how we can design simple and elegant material intelligence that may one day animate and improve itself?and along the way help us build a more sustainable future.Compelling and beautifully designed, Things Fall Together provides an insider's perspective on the materials revolution that lies ahead, revealing the spectacular possibilities for designing active materials that can self-assemble, collaborate, and one day even evolve and design on their own. 606 $aProgrammable materials 610 $a3D printing. 610 $a4D printing. 610 $aadaptive environments. 610 $aadaptive materials. 610 $aadaptive products. 610 $aadditive manufacturing. 610 $abest science books. 610 $acomputing. 610 $aconsumer products. 610 $adigital information. 610 $aengineering. 610 $afabrication. 610 $amaterial computation. 610 $amaterial computing. 610 $aphysical computation. 610 $aphysical computing. 610 $apopular science. 610 $aproduct design. 610 $aprogrammable materials. 610 $aprogrammable matter. 610 $arecycle. 610 $arecycling. 610 $arobotics. 610 $aself-organization. 610 $asmart environments. 610 $asmart materials. 610 $asmart products. 610 $asmart wearables. 610 $atransformable materials. 615 0$aProgrammable materials. 676 $a620.11 686 $aUB 5340$2rvk 700 $aTibbits$b Skylar$0933943 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bUtOrBLW 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910554249803321 996 $aThings fall together$92815393 997 $aUNINA