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'''Fab Labs''' ('''fab'''rication '''lab'''oratories) are small scale workshops with modern computer controlled equipment such as...
 
'''Fab Labs''' ('''fab'''rication '''lab'''oratories) are small scale workshops with modern computer controlled equipment such as...
  

Revision as of 12:22, 30 December 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.

Mobile FabLab:
Fablab trailer in wyoming.jpg

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

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