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Wednesday, November 09, 2005
Imagine, Make It Real in Fab Lab - Associated Press
When Makeda Stephenson compared flight simulator games sold in computer stores and didn't find anything she liked, she didn't stop there.... A computer program Stephenson wrote with help from a Massachusetts Institute of Technology student guides the plane's movements on her computer screen. She did it all through a teen learning program at one of seven so-called Fabrication Labs that MIT has established in places as distant as Norway and Ghana. Each lab has tool sets that, costing about $25,000, would be out of the reach of most fledgling inventors. Advocates of such "Fab Labs" think they have the potential to vastly expand the creative powers of tinkerers and usher in a revolution in do-it-yourself design and manufacturing that can empower even the smallest of communities.
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