Piccolo
Small CNC bot, potential drawing machine for only $70. As you can see in the video below, it is capable of some interesting things:
Piccolo is a pocket-sized stand-alone CNC platform. For under $70, you will be able to assemble your personal Arduino-compatible kit for tinkering, and playing with basic CNC output. Be it plotting a quick graffiti, printing a one-off business card on the fly, or multiple Piccolos working together to create a large mural, this kit provides a platform for experimenting with 2D or 3D digital fabrication at a small scale.
We are currently refining the Piccolo prototype into an open-source design that is simple, quick to assemble, and easy to use, and is entirely composed of digitally manufactured components and inexpensive off-the-shelf hardware.
The Piccolo project includes Arduino and Processing libraries, to use Piccolo in a variety of ways such as moving autonomously or responding to sensors and data, whilst providing an accessible educational tool and a new output for Processing sketches.
Piccolo isn’t available yet, but you can be notified via their website here
-Technology makes life more complex.
- Sweatshops and harsher forms of slavery are more likely to be found in technologically advanced societies, relative to primitive societies.
- The increasing oppression of technologically advanced societies over those which are not.
- More people are starving (in total numbers and per-capita), in this most technologically advanced age, than at any other point in history or primitive pre-history.
- The increase in transportation technology has brought stressful traffic congestion in some areas.
- Technicism
- New forms of danger existing as a consequence of innovative forms of technology, new types of nuclear reactors, unforeseen genetic mutations as the result of genetic engineering, or perhaps something more subtle which can destroy the ozone or warm the planet.
- Potentially devestating nuclear weapons become more powerful and proliferation is made evermore easy with communication and transportation advancements. This leads to socially stressful military concepts like mutually assured destruction. The duck and cover drills accompany other lifestyle aspects of an advanced technological society.
- New forms of entertainment, such as video games and internet access could have possible social effects on areas such as academic performance.
- Creates new diseases and disorders such as obesity, laziness and a loss of personality.
-computer virus and bug
-privacy and stolen copy right
-make part of people over concentrate on computering, then lost of friendly and face to face communication chance. Bad for eye watching if over look for long time
-no physical stock, easy buy fake product and cheating by people
- people will lose their jobs to machines that will do the work for them
- machines and robots are too complex for most people to us.
