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DIY – The Fab Lab

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The Fab Lab a room full of equipment that will let you make almost anything:

Invention kits let you build (almost) anything

From the article:

Give a man a gadget, and you feed his tech needs for a day. Teach him to make gadgets, and he can feed himself — and a few savvy venture capitalists — for life.

Such is the thinking of Neil Gershenfeld, a 48-year-old physicist and MIT professor and the inventor of what he calls the Fab Lab. A Fab Lab (short for fabrication laboratory) is a package of tools designed to make essentially any object.

Here’s the look inside one of the labs:

See also: Shapeways: 3D Printing for Everyone

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