Equipment

This is a small sample of the projects local kids have made using fab lab equipment, plus links to other sites demonstrating what you can do with this equipment.
For more examples, please see our Community Blog

Laser cutter

laser cutProjects done by other folks with laser cutters include stencils, post cards, self-replicating robots, laser cut cakes, furniture and jewelry. Laser cutters can also etch and people have used them to etch everything from fingernails to computer cases to boot leather.
www.instructables.com/id/Laser_Cut/

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Vinyl cutter

Vinyl cutters are used to make signs, stencils, custom imprints for t-shirts, giant stickers for your wall and custom stickers for your electronics gear. You can even make band-aids to cover that embarrassing bo0-boo on your car.
www.coolinfographics.blogspot.com
www.signwarehouse.com

Shop bot

shop botProjects done by other folks with shop bots:
www.shopbotprojectwizard.com/pw/index.aspx

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Roland Modela

We’ve been using this to etch out circuit boards and do 3D scanning.

Electronics bench

electronic benchThe things you can do with a soldiering iron, circuit boards, resistors and other electronic parts are too numerous to link to. A sample of things you can google to learn how to make would be robots, speaker systems, plant watering sensors, blinky lights, wearable electronics, fixing your broken radio and so much more.

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3D printer

Fab@Home Fabber
www.fabathome.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
Cool things people are doing with 3d printers:
www.explainingthefuture.com/3dprinting.html