Tour de Fablab

Introduction

This page will include a tour of fab lab related stuff.

For the moment, this is a quickly put together list of pointers for showing in a class. I should add some pictures and stories ...

Daniel K. Schneider October 2011.

Neil Gershenfeld (M.I.T.) - How to make almost everything

The MIT FabLab is considered to be the first fablab. Of course, there is a lot of prior stuff, but this lab did two things: (1) Show that you can build a lot within a high tech lab and (2) sponsor several FabLabs in other places, in particular in the third world.

• Prof. Neil Gershenfeld (MIT), personal homepage

• Fab Lab Central. Some links to visit:
  • Inventory with pictures of the Center for Bits and Atoms (MIT). A very "heavy" version.
  • Propaganda video (2007)
  • Fab Lab FAQ
  • Fab Lab talk (HTML slides). Press "i" for navigation or use left/right arrows.

Some Fab labs

Some contrasted examples

• Fablab Luzern (a very recent one, sponsored by a local university)
• Fablab Amsterdam (Europe's oldest or one of its olders)
• Fab Lab Afghanistan
• Fab Lab Kenia
• Fablab TECFA (CCBB rated, i.e. almost as bad as it can get ....)

Digital design and fabrication in schools

• Digital Design and Technology Programme (UK)

Fab lab communities

Community web sites

• Fab Lab Central
• fabfolk
• FabLab wiki

Conferences

• FAB5: (The Fifth International Fab Lab Forum and Symposium on Digital Fabrication) in Pune, India. 2009 See Tom Okite's trip repor)
• Fab 6 | The sixth international Fab Lab conference, Holland, 2010
• Fab 7, Peru, 2010