Antimony CAD software history traced to Lisp machines
The gist
Antimony, a CAD tool from the MIT Center for Bits and Atoms, drew a Hacker News post on Nov 3, 2026.
Its author says maintenance tapered off since 2016, with a fork now carrying it forward.
How it unfolded
- early 2014Antimony is developed as a demo for the World Economic Forum.
- fall 2014Antimony is updated for use in How to Make Almost Anything.
- 2015An Antimony update coincides with the 2015 edition of Fab Academy.