Nadya Peek, researcher at MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms in Boston, is working on developing new digital fabrication machines for the Machines that Make program. Interview.
At the Center for Bits and Atoms at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, directed by Neil Gershenfeld, a program aims to develop open source, low-cost computer numerical control (CNC) machines. Nadya Peek, PhD candidate and research assistant at Machines that Make, explains why MIT wants to rise above the infrastructural restrictions of the old industrial model and is looking for solutions in China, especially with FAB12 in Shenzhen this summer.
