Difference between revisions of "Virtual designs into physical objects/Fab Labs"

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*[http://fab.cba.mit.edu. MIT Fab lab website]
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*[http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,69495,00.html?tw=wn_7techhead Wired article]
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* [http://fab.cba.mit.edu. MIT Fab lab website]
*[http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/11/13/8393124/index.htm CNN article]
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* [http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,69495,00.html?tw=wn_7techhead Wired article]
*[http://www.perseusbooksgroup.com/basic/book_detail.jsp?isbn=0465027458 ''FAB The Coming Revolution on Your Desktop] {{en}} from Personal Computers to Personal Fabrication'' the book by {{wp|Neil_Gershenfeld|'''Neil Gershenfeld'''}}, head of the [http://cba.mit.edu Center for Bits and Atoms] at {{wp|Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology|MIT}}
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* [http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/11/13/8393124/index.htm CNN article]
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* [http://www.perseusbooksgroup.com/basic/book_detail.jsp?isbn=0465027458 ''FAB The Coming Revolution on Your Desktop] {{en}} from Personal Computers to Personal Fabrication'' the book by {{wp|Neil_Gershenfeld|'''Neil Gershenfeld'''}}, head of the [http://cba.mit.edu Center for Bits and Atoms] at {{wp|Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology|MIT}}
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* [http://www.replab.org RepLab - open, replicable FabLabs]

Revision as of 00:10, 25 November 2009

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Fab Labs (fabrication laboratories) are small scale workshops with modern computer controlled equipment such as...

...giving the ability within one room to create just about anything from engines to electronic devices. The concept was developed at the Center for Bits and Atoms at MIT.

Around 34 fab labs have been set up around the world so far to give ordinary people in deprived areas access to this type of machinery to help people create machines and devices for themselves and their community.

Commercial versions are now starting to spring too, see http://www.techshop.ws.

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