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#Fabricating the Commons FAB16 brings together members of the international Fab Lab Network, as well as government representatives, academic researchers and experts in the field of digital f... Read more
Now available everywhere you go! The Fab Lab Network is an open, creative community of fabricators, artists, scientists, engineers, educators, students, amateurs, professionals, of all ages... Read more
The FABXLive, this year’s global Fab Lab Network conference, is an online, distributed, FREE conference that gives us an opportunity to stay connected, reflect and engage deeply around... Read more
The FABXLive, this year’s global Fab Lab Network conference, is an online, distributed, FREE conference that gives us an opportunity to stay connected, reflect and engage deeply aroun... Read more
The Fab Lab network congratulates Nadya Peek, alum from the Center for Bits and Atoms at MIT on being selected as a TR35 innovator. She builds novel modular machines that can do just about a... Read more
Dear Friends, We hope that you and your loved ones are safe and healthy. We realize that this is a very difficult and unique time for all of us, and we are grateful to see your support and c... Read more
#Fabricating the Commons FAB16 brings together members of the international Fab Lab Network, as well as government representatives, academic researchers and experts in the field of di... Read more
Neil Gershenfeld outlines the impact of fab labs NEIL GERSHENFELD HAS BEEN CALLED THE INTELLECTUAL FATHER OF THE MAKER MOVEMENT. He’s spent more than a decade bringing the means for inventio... Read more
November 14, 2019 Dear Fab Community, It is with a very heavy heart and great sadness that I write to you today. Our colleague, good and dear friend, adventuring spirit, innovator and Bit N... Read more
In 1965, tech pioneer Gordon Moore noticed a trend: The number of components on an integrated circuit was doubling every year. He predicted this would continue, resulting in wildly powerful... Read more
#Fab15 ended last week with great success. Fabbers from around the world traveled to Egypt to share their innovations with other makers. Fab Conference Each year members of the more than 1,6... Read more
BNY Mellon takes place of Chevron for lab that teaches kids design skills It’s not exactly on the scale of Consol Energy Center changing its name three years ago to PPG Paints Arena i... Read more
Fab Conference Each year members of the more than 1,600 worldwide Fab Labs gather to share, discuss, collaborate and create communities around the different local and global interests regard... Read more
Cultivating STEM Expertise The end of winter in Austin, Texas, means that you can count on two things: bluebonnets and South by Southwest (SXSW). The annual conference brings together the be... Read more
Interviewé lors de la Maddy Keynote, Neil Gershenfeld, père spirituel des fab labs, revient sur le succès du concept et sur les enjeux du machine learning. Il a bouleversé l’univers de... Read more
The Fab Lab network continues to grow and make impact across the world! As 2018 comes to a close, our network numbers more than 1,600 Fab Labs in 100+ countries and, if Lass’s Law hold... Read more
Fab Academy has started for 2019 and is off to an interesting start. Watch the first lesson about Project Management here: Fab Academy lesson 1 Read more about Fab Academy. Read more
Make SMTHNG Week, International, Festival, Event It is an international festival of making that challenges our consumerist culture – instead of going shopping, we will spend quality time wit... Read more
Mass STEM week, Hands-on learning, STEM, Networks In an effort to boost students’ interest and raise awareness of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education, the Baker-... Read more
Grand Opening, Fab Lab Houston, Community Hub, STEM education, Entrepreneurship Fab Foundation, Chevron and the nonprofit community development group BakerRipley opened a fab lab and a commu... Read more
Fabx Event, Innovation, Technology, Digital Manufacturing, Local, Global Each year members of the more than 1,200 worldwide Fab Labs gather to share, discuss, collaborate and create communit... Read more
Mini Maker, Maker Faire, Boston, Makers Gathering, Venue Maker Faire is a gathering of fascinating, curious people who enjoy learning and who love sharing what they can do. From engineers to... Read more
Smart City, Share Ideas, Congress, Exhibition Sharing ideas, projects and experiences is a fundamental point of the Smart City Expo LATAM Congress. To promote this networking, we created the... Read more
Maker Faire, Celebration, Invention, Creativity, Curiosity, Global Maker Faire is a celebration of invention, creativity, and curiosity showcasing the very best of the global Maker Movement.... Read more
Global, Community, Bio Summit, Biotechnology, Initiative, Biologists The Community Biotechnology Initiative at the MIT Media Lab is organizing the second annual Global Summit on Community Bi... Read more
Fab Lab Hub, America Makes, Micro-credential, Innovation, Digital Badge Fab Lab Hub is a proud Member of America Makes, the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute. We work with... Read more
En dix ans, nous sommes passés de 1 à 1.000 fablabs. Pour les dix prochaines années, nous sommes en route pour le million de fablabs. Publié le 17 juillet 2018 par Elsa Ferreira, Toulouse, e... Read more
Within ten years we went from 1 to 1,000 fablabs. During the next ten years, we are on the way for one million fablabs. Published 17 July 2018 by Elsa Ferreira Toulouse, special envoy Invent... Read more
Lots of hands-on workshops and collaborations to chose from! Read more
MOBILITY Day at Fab14 aimed to explore and predict new ways in which people, data, objects, ideas and more, move around the world – how we can improve them, what is being done on this... Read more
Today’s market is in need of digital food production or customization. “FOOD” day – July 16, Day One at Fab14 in Toulouse, France – aimed at discussing and prop... Read more
Lake Victoria Challenge’s Simon Johnson will speak at the Fab14 conference in France next week. The Lake Victoria Challenge asks what could happen if Africa were no longer bound by lin... Read more
July’s Fab14 conference in France will devote a day to machines, a topic that promises to impact the region. The other main topics at the Fab14 conference include food, mobility, money... Read more
A new innovation hub and Fab Lab in Laois, Ireland, is inspiring locals to build business and stimulate employment throughout the region. The outgoing cathaoirleach of Laois Co Council, cllr... Read more
The topic of money is one of five main concepts impacting the region that is hosting the upcoming Fab14 conference. The other main topics at the Fab14 conference include food, mobility, mach... Read more
HCI and design researcher Amit Zoran will speak at the upcoming Fab14 conference in Toulouse, France. In The Rachel and Selim Benin School of Computer Science and Engineering at The Hebrew U... Read more
Neil Gershenfeld, Director of MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms, will act as moderator for the upcoming Fab14 conference in Toulouse, France. Additional moderators include Sherry Lassite... Read more
Campers at Independence Community College are getting a crash course in experiential learning at a local Fab Lab. Summer is the perfect time to help school kids hone in on their math and sci... Read more
Five main topics at Fab14 promise to create a big impact in the region: FOOD, MOBILITY, MACHINES, MONEY AND ACCESS. Speakers and moderators, such as Neil Gershenfeld, Sherry Lasseter, Claude... Read more
Claudette Irere from the Ministry of Information Technology and Communications for the Republic of Rwanda, will speak at the Fab14 Conference in France this month. Ms. Irere holds the positi... Read more
CONCORD— A dollhouse, fidgets, personalized blocks and a walker for Lucky the duck were just some of the products created by students during the Fab Lab internship this summer. Students from... Read more
CHICO, CA — Chico artist Christian V. Davila’s latest solo Fab Lab art show soars to new heights with a little help from technology. Davila’s new whimsical showcase in “Taking Over” opens Sa... Read more
Each year members of the more than 1,200 worldwide Fab Labs gather to share, discuss, collaborate and create communities around the different local and global interests regarding digital man... Read more
When pondering an art project that could effect real change, Zach Wientjes used Jackson Hole High School’s digital fabrication lab to bring his vision to life. In his school’s “F... Read more
New Fabrication Lab. WAYNESBURG – With the new fabrication lab at Intermediate Unit 1’s Waynesburg campus, students are encouraged to use their imaginations to make anything they can think o... Read more
Creative by Design: Fab Lab Opens Doors to Local Residents MARTINSVILLE – Though just a fledgling band, Veg Out is taking their music a step further with their own custom T-shirt. That’s pre... Read more
The Future of ‘Fab Lab’ Fabrication IN 1965, TECH pioneer Gordon Moore noticed a trend: The number of components on an integrated circuit was doubling every year. He predicted th... Read more
University of Utah senior Ryan Clayton, an architecture major, hopes to someday design “beautiful” structures. He says he is passionate about the design side of structural engine... Read more
The Shukhov Lab in Russia has awarded the winners of their first Future Cities online competition “Cities for a Flying World.” The official Awards Ceremony was held at the Moscow... Read more
Recycle Plastic Fab Lab Introduces Equipment to Recycle Plastic INSTEAD of throwing away plastics, which take a thousand years to decompose in landfills, the Department of Trade and Industry... Read more
NASA is building the Space Launch System (SLS) to reach the deep space gateway. Winning the space FabLab project would mark Techshot’s first involvement in deep space exploration. NASA is pr... Read more
Thought leaders in 3D Printing, Smart Manufacturing, New Collar Workforce training, STEM education and Entrepreneurship explore how new digital fabrication tools like 3D Printing are changin... Read more
There was a gathering at the old Blue Ridge Elementary School on White Mountain Boulevard in Pinetop-Lakeside, and everywhere you looked, someone appeared to be sparked with creative ideas a... Read more
Fab Academy 2018 has started! More than 200 students, all over the world, were connected to attend the first Fab Academy lesson on the 17th of January. The first lesson by professor Neil Ger... Read more
Apple Valley High School students worked in groups on the laser engraver in the “Fab Lab” to create a prototype for BTM Global. English teacher Christina Anderson examines her school’s labor... Read more
As District 622 prepares students for future careers, it is working to expand the science, technology, engineering and math programming, otherwise called STEM. At North and Tartan high scho... Read more
Recent investments include funding for the Fab Lab Richmond at Kennedy High, FOSS Kits for local elementary schools, the Chevron Fuel Your School program and STEM Zones at local professional... Read more
There was a mobile miniature makerspace/fablab. Fittingly for the Netherlands this bike-borne fablab was completely transportable. It included power, a pelletizer and a 3D printer. During Du... Read more
Students at Waller Elementary in Bossier City, Louisiana now have two 3-D printers, an animation studio, a laptop, camera, and all the other materials they need for their brand new STEAM Mak... Read more
BRAINERD — A fabrication lab at Kelliher Public Schools earned the district a Profile of Excellence Award last Monday from the Minnesota Rural Education Association. The “fab lab” incl... Read more
Designing Reality: How to Survive and Thrive in Third Digital Revolution – the fab new entry in the literature on digital fabrication and fab labs – is out now! In Designing Real... Read more
The coworking space is hardly an anomaly in Miami anymore. Freelancers, start-ups and many young professionals enjoy the freedom that comes with a rentable workspace. And most are similar en... Read more
Yesterday we introduced the moderator for Fab13 to you. Today, we will present you a few of the speakers. ALASTAIR PARVIN. Alastair is a cofounder at WikiHouse Foundation. WikiHouse is a ope... Read more
Yesterday we were telling you about the Fab13 Convention that will start on July 31st in Santiago, Chile. Let us quickly present you the moderators : NEIL GERSHENFELD. Neil is not only the D... Read more
One of our goals at Fab Lab Connect is to make Fab Labs accessible to children, as we believe they are an fabulous tool to prepare kids to tomorrow’s world. So every time we see an ste... Read more
School District Receives $25,000 Fab Lab The Rhinelander, Wisconsin school district received a grant Tuesday from the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC) to purchase additional... Read more
From Circulate News’ Benjamin Tincq: The Fab City, a locally self-sufficient and globally connected city, invites us to explore how digital manufacturing could relocate food, energy an... Read more
Ted Hung, Director of Taipei’s Fablab, made a presentation of FabLab Asia Foundation, a network of 81 FabLabs located in 21 countries in the Asia Pacific region. Jayasankar Prasad C.,... Read more
I’m grateful for the opportunity to have served as chairwoman of the Duluth School Board for 2016. With much national debate centered on divisiveness, it was powerful to see our community co... Read more
We are thrilled to announce that the Fab Lab network has expanded so widely over a decade that there are now 1000 Fab Labs in over 97 countries! Hard to believe that the first Fab Lab was op... Read more
From Elementa: “Jens Dyvik is a dedicated designer and an advocate for communal workshops. For two years Jens has been visiting, and working, in more than 30 different Fab labs, makers... Read more
ODESSA, TX (KWES) -If you can imagine it, you can probably create it in a Fab Lab. The National Fab Foundation along with Chevron U.S.A. Inc. awarded Odessa College a grant to start a Fab La... Read more
Last Fall, four members of our FabLab community graduated from Fab Lab Academy and, it is with a lot of pride that we would like to introduce them, and their projects, to you. From Fab Lab A... Read more
Last Fall, four members of our FabLab community graduated from Fab Lab Academy and, it is with a lot of pride that we would like to introduce them, and their projects, to you. From Fa... Read more
Like a proud father, Cedric Bleimling enjoys showing off the beginnings of the Permian Basin Fab Lab at Odessa College which will provide space for creating everything from furniture to engr... Read more
Windhoek – Kirstin Wiedow is the co-founder and director of the first fabrication laboratory (FABlab) in Namibia, a Centre of Excellence at the Namibia University of Science and Technology (... Read more
As if a full school day of teaching wasn’t enough, many Wairarapa teachers are committing to after school study to benefit their classrooms. About 30 Wairarapa teachers have taken advantage... Read more
The principle of a Fab Lab (fabrication laboratory) in a nutshell is this: to empower people of the world through an ability to make things, almost any things. They were first set up by MIT... Read more
We are always happy to spread the news when a Fab Lab opens… so here is an article from Bonners Ferry, Idaho about their brand new Fab Lab Anderson Launches Library’s MIT Fab Lab... Read more
Boundary County Library Director, Craig Anderson, has the vision, and a mission, to create a state-of-the-art learning center, geared toward further education, economic basics and technology... Read more
On Wednesday, Kickstarter announced it was set to present The Future Fablab, which is described as a collection of machines that turn digital dreams into physical reality, at World Maker Fai... Read more
If creating your own 3-D models, laser-etched accessories or unique furniture sounds like fun, it’s time to take a trip to Fab Lab El Paso. Short for fabrication laboratory, there are non-pr... Read more
Some good news from France this week: our co-founder Simone Amber was interviewed by the French television station, FR3, about Fab Lab Ajaccio’s successes. She told the story of Fab Lab and... Read more
FabKids Sifais The group is an initiative of VERITAS Lab Fab , Fab Lab Association Costa Rica and Sifais. Twelve young people between 14 and 17 years will become trainers of digital manufact... Read more
A great deal of time and energy has been spent on building brands and consumerism, Nathan Pritchett said. So much so that many people no longer know how or where things are made. “We’ve deve... Read more
Makers from over 60 countries come to Shenzhen Fab12 this week to celebrate Fab Labs and explore the future of Fabrication at the 12th Fab Lab Conference and Symposium. Shenzhen is quite the... Read more
Roland DG Sponsors FAB12, the International Meeting of the Fab Lab Community, Bringing the Potential of Digital Fabrication to the Chinese Educational Market Irvine, Calif. – Aug. 5, 2... Read more
Fab12 is off to a great beginning! Day 1 was a fun filled start, looking forward to seeing what the rest of the week holds. Thanks everyone for sharing, stay tuned for more. Fab12 Read More... Read more
EDWARDSVILLE — A national symposium on science, technology and mathematics will be held at Lewis and Clark Community College’s fabrication lab next year, the college recently announced. The... Read more
Kate Samson went to México with the Maker Camp Mesoamérica 2016 : ‘Make-Tinker-Learn’! First stop : México FabLab Impact !!! #fabkids #maker #diy #fablab #fablat. Read More... Read more
A global trend promoted by inventors, entrepreneurs and designers, who blend open-source philosophy, cutting-edge technology and do-it-yourself attitude to create innovative products is gett... Read more
The Fab Lab, which works with a local and global network, to get the community involved with the technology and art of fabrications, is a modern day “inventors workshop”. The lab... Read more
Preschoolers Can Now Learn STEM A few weeks ago, at the Bay Area Discovery Museum (BADM) near San Francisco, 5-year-old Jack Stabenow climbed a step stool to peer into a machine that cuts ca... Read more
Some news from the Fab Lab Community With ten 3D printers and a robotic attendant, this automated fab lab doesn’t need any human help One of the big issues with 3D printing farms is th... Read more
You may not know it, but we are nearing the end of National Week of Making, designated by the White House as a time to celebrate innovations in science, technology, engineering, art, math an... Read more
We are always happy to hear about new Fab Lab opening around the world, and to share the news. This month it’s Cebu, the second largest city in the Philippines, that is getting ready f... Read more
The U.S. has the perception as the heart of global entrepreneurship, but Europe might soon take the crown. Here’s why. 1- MORE RAPID ADOPTION OF SOFT INFRASTRUCTURE FOR ENTREPRENEURSHI... Read more
The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Cebu provincial office will open next month a digital Fabrication Laboratory (FabLab). Maria Elena C. Arbon, DTI Cebu provincial director, said thi... Read more
Tyler Brumfield peered into the machine to see the laser at work. “It’s kind of fun to watch,” he said. When the red light had traced the lines he’d directed, Brumfie... Read more
FLORENCE, Wisc. — High demand for technical education has led many high schools to expand their career–oriented offerings. One Northern Wisconsin school is giving students a unique opportuni... Read more
Southern Door School District was awarded $25,000 by the state to create a fabrication laboratory at the school. The award is part of Gov. Scott Walker’s 2015-17 biennial budget invest... Read more
Tyler Brumfield peered into the machine to see the laser at work. “It’s kind of fun to watch,” he said. When the red light had traced the lines he’d directed, Brumfie... Read more
A first grader and a high school senior will tell adults this Friday how the Fab Lab in Three Lakes can be used as a tool for economic development. The Oneida County Economic Development Cor... Read more
Fabrication Laboratory, El Paso’s hub for the latest 3D-printing technology, has been housed in an unsuspecting concrete building at 806 Montana for two years now. By providing training in u... Read more
Lydie Passot is a 27-year-old french teacher. Because she is fond of technology and because she is a do-it-yourself person, she found a way to link her passions and her work : she runs a fab... Read more
Printing capabilities have been around for a long time. Pictures and documents can be produced in record time. If it’s on the screen, it can be printed in hard copy. That’s not particularly... Read more
All roads once led to Rome; now, all roads lead to New York City. In what might just be blasphemy to some, the Big Apple is not my favorite place in the world (sorry!) — but I must admit, th... Read more
On Monday at Inside 3D Printing NYC, I spent one keynote trying simply to get in the door. I ended up hovering just inside — occasionally with a foot actually out in the hall — the large roo... Read more
At Cergy-Pontoise University, just outside of Paris, the FabLab, called FacLab just created a Fab Lab Facilitator diploma. The curriculum includes : • how to use the machines and tools you c... Read more
Nadya Peek, researcher at MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms in Boston, is working on developing new digital fabrication machines for the Machines that Make program. Interview. At the Ce... Read more
Learning in a foreign language is always a challenge. Fortunately for the 150 millions of Russian native speakers, the Fab Academy courses are becoming easier, thanks to webinars now availab... Read more
Marton Molin, a member of the Swedish Band Wintergatan, found a extraordinary use for his workshop skills, and created the Marble Machine, an instrument that seems to be from outer space. It... Read more
Weekly new science show aims to get TV viewers — especially girls — involved in STEM LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Half of all U.S. workers are women. Still, women hold less than one in every four j... Read more
NORFOLK — Mid-Atlantic Regional Maintenance Center’s Fabrication Laboratory, or Fab Lab, is participating in the third annual National Week of Making to recognize the military’s best i... Read more
Corse-Martin, the local newspaper in Ajaccio, Corsica, recently wrote about the innovations made in Fab Lab Ajaccio and shed light on two of their new projects. The first project, Ragnar Rob... Read more
Taipei, Feb. 29 (CNA) The Ministry of Education’s Fab Truck program that aims to promote 3D technology among high school students will have taken six mobile digital fabrication laborat... Read more
This is what school computing classes should be like, according to maker space FabLab’s co-founder Tony Fish: students jumping up from excitement because their robot did as it was comm... Read more
Fablab. Le mot ne vous dit peut-être pas grand-chose. Pourtant, il y en a un à Corte depuis cet été, dans les étages inférieurs du Palazzu. Pas encore totalement installé, il est vrai, mais... Read more
If you don’t already know, creative and innovative ideas will disrupt industries and sectors, transform them, and create new ones in the coming decades. Take a look at crowdsourcing: It’s al... Read more
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees calls the Syrian conflict “the worst humanitarian crisis of our times, combined with the worst regional destabilization in any part of the world, and th... Read more
Beno Juarez grew up in the Peruvian Amazon jungle. His family moved to Lima when he was 9. It was the juxtaposition of the freedom of the jungle and the challenges of the city that led Beno... Read more
A fab lab (fabrication laboratory) is a small-scale workshop offering (personal) digital fabrication. A fab lab is generally equipped with an array of flexible computer controlled tools that... Read more
The Fab Lab is one of few select academic institutions around the world utilizing robotic automation to perform both subtractive and additive manufacturing processes. Read More… Read more
Next fall, Kelliher High School students will have the opportunity of working in a Fab Lab. Superintendent Jim Lutz said the district received a grant of $26,500 from First Technologies Inc.... Read more
Fox Valley Technical College has one of five Wisconsin digital fabrication laboratories, known as “fab labs,” that are affiliated with Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Cambridge, Ma... Read more
RIVERSIDE — Walter E. Stebbins High School is the first southwest Ohio high school to be named part of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s international Fab Lab Network. Fab Lab is t... Read more
State Representative Mary Czaja of Irma thinks a model developed by Three Lakes could help northern school districts facing critical budget problems. Three Lakes schools have opened a Fab La... Read more
At Fab Lab Connect, we’re interested in the different ways people set up Fab Labs. Every area has a variety of needs and resources based on interest, funding, and the surrounding community.... Read more
San Diego’s Fab Lab, which reopens next Friday in a converted East Village warehouse, can be a bit baffling. The 3,200-square-foot space is open to anyone who wants to fabricate — hence the... Read more