InfraStructs: Fabricating Information Inside Physical Objects for Imaging in the Terahertz Region

  • Andy Wilson, Microsoft

How can the physical objects of tomorrow be embedded with information? As digital fabrication technologies, such as 3D printing, rapidly scale and expand — how do these objects become readable and interactive in the digital world? InfraStructs, are material-based passive tags that embed machine-readable information in the interior of physical objects. InfraStructs combine the unique capability of digital fabrication to create one-off geometric structures, with the see-through ability of terahertz imaging to read volumetric information.