Fab@Home:Styling

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Welcome to the Fab@Home Styling Page

Here you can learn about ways of personalizing your Fab@Home, including:

and any other ideas you might have.

Colors of Parts

The acrylic used for the Chassis and Deposition Tools for each printer is available in a wide variety of colors, both opaque and translucent. The following vendors links describe some of the colors available. Note that tolerances on different grades of acrylic may vary:

The protective braiding for the Model 1 cables is also available in a wide variety of colors. The following pictures give a sense of the range of colors available, and were taken from:

Grays and Blacks

Reds

Yellows, Greens, Blues, and combos

Standard Cat5 cables for the Model 2 also come in a range of colors.

Etched Logos and Images

If you have your acrylic parts cut via laser cutter, you can have logos and images etched onto them (at some additional expense, if you are outsourcing the parts). Etching from the back of the part makes the logos appear to float inside the part. You can have almost any image file format etched onto your parts by Koba Industries or any sign shop or trophy shop that has laser engraving equipment.

Here you see the some of the logos we have played with etched in mirror image onto the back side of the Model 1 Base Front piece.

We are experimenting with some new graphics - the flames are courtesy of Jon Hiller of the Cornell Computational Synthesis Laboratory.

The Fab@Home logo engraved into the right side of a Model 1

Parts with Styled Shapes

If you have a clear idea of how the Fab@Home parts fit together, you can easily change the shapes of the acrylic pieces without affecting how they assemble. This means you can drastically change the shape of your fabber, perhaps to get away from the bland "Bread Box" design of the Model 1. Put cutout holes where you find them convenient. How about sculpted flames on the chassis of your "overclocked" fabber?


Show your Style

See the Fabbers of the World gallery page for some examples of stylish variations on the Fab@Home design.

Please post your own fabber amongst the Fabbers of the World.

If you are particularly proud of the style of your fabber, why not vie for a Fab@Home Award for style?

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