think of how sad you were when the close side tabular array that dish you all through college did n’t survive the move home ? No board would ever be the same , but such tragedies could be avoided in the time to come if the idea behind John Kestner and David Carr ’s barcoded Rev—>table catches on .
Made from real solid oak tree and cold - rolled steel , the $ 667 table will inevitably last a lot prospicient than the tatty particle board and Ellen Price Wood veneer alternative that IKEA sell . But the fabrication process is essentially the same . The MIT ammonia alum ’ party , Supermechanical , use machines work from digital pattern to produce the table . And to see it outlive even the bad vesture and tear , those blueprints are encoded in a 2D barcode that ’s etch onto an aluminum plaque on the table ’s surface .
So if the pegleg hap to break down the line of products , when the table ’s out of production , you’re able to just email off a set of DXF files to your local machine shop class and have them cut you a fresh pair . The same goes for the tabletop if it gets irreparably damaged . you may even modify the original plans as need , creating raw usance versions for unlike function . As long as you ’re willing to pay for the raw cloth , the table can be animate again and again . [ Rev—>tableviaWired ]
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