Notes concerning “Self-replication”
The economics of solar energy
2008 (27 minutes)
mechanical computation: with Merkle gates, height fields, and thread
2010-06-28 (36 minutes)
Ghettobotics: making robots out of trash
2013-05-17 (41 minutes)
2025 manufacturing and economics scenario
2014-04-24 (24 minutes)
Planar lookup tables
2014-04-24 (2 minutes)
Making a mechanical state machine via sheet cutting
2014-04-24 (updated 2015-09-03) (7 minutes)
Simplified computing, down to the level of mining raw materials
2015-09-03 (22 minutes)
Exponential technology and capital
2016-02-18 (updated 2017-07-19) (8 minutes)
The book written in itself
2016-06-12 (updated 2016-06-14) (18 minutes)
String cutting cardboard
2016-06-30 (5 minutes)
2016 outlook for automated fabrication and 3-D printing
2016-08-11 (20 minutes)
Clanking replicators
2016-11-30 (3 minutes)
Approaches to limiting self-replication
2016-11-30 (7 minutes)
Self replication changes
2017-01-16 (5 minutes)
Clay fabrication objectives
2017-01-16 (updated 2017-01-17) (3 minutes)
Ideas to explore
2017-05-29 (updated 2019-09-15) (3 minutes)
A brief note on autonomous cyclic fabrication systems from inorganic raw materials
2018-04-27 (1 minute)
Elastic metamaterials
2019-03-19 (17 minutes)
Gardening machines
2019-04-02 (updated 2019-04-24) (32 minutes)
Maximal-flexibility designs for printable building blocks
2019-04-20 (18 minutes)
Plastic cutters
2019-04-20 (5 minutes)
Things in Dercuano that would be big if true
2019-05-24 (updated 2019-08-21) (24 minutes)
Computation with strain
2019-06-13 (17 minutes)
Foil origami robots
2019-06-13 (updated 2019-06-14) (10 minutes)