MIT is famous as a factory of ideas. You could also call MIT a factory for learning. But for one group of students over the past year MIT has been, in fact, a factory. The team of graduate students designed and built — entirely within an MIT lab — an assembly factory for a low-cost, reconfigurable desktop fiber extrusion system. The factory was the students’ thesis project in the Master of Engineering in Advanced Manufacturing and Design. The team transformed the fiber (Fr) extrusion (E) device (D), or FrED, from…
