Crowdsourced Fabrication
summary
A 12-foot bamboo pavilion is built from 224 modules by over 100 untrained volunteers guided by Apple Watch guidance, iBeacons, RGB LED nodes and four six-axis robot stations coordinated by a foreman engine. Each module takes ~20 minutes on average; volunteers speed up with repetition. Deployment hits two shutdowns (a string-integer bug and loose zip ties requiring structural reinforcement) but finishes on schedule, yielding real-time dashboards and lessons on scaling physical crowdsourcing.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction to crowdsourced fabrication
- 1:05Crowdsourced fabrication concept
- 2:08Hive Pavilion project overview
- 3:58Design principles for guidance
- 6:50Worker experience step-by-step
- 10:00Project timeline and challenges
- 12:07Key findings and feedback
- 14:13Potential applications and insights
- 16:42Generalizing the approach
- 17:02Q&A session
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