- November 18, 2008
- BY bea alvarez
From Idea to Invention: City Heights’ Fab Lab
City Heights’ Fab Lab is a place where anybody can make damn-near anything By Kinsee Morlan, first published in San Diego CityBeat on 11/18/2008 Behind an unassuming storefront on 43rd Street in City Heights, a group of people squat around Rita Roberson...
- November 1, 2007
- BY admin
Neil Gershenfeld on Fab Labs
MIT professor Neil Gershenfeld talks about his Fab Lab — a low-cost lab that lets people build things they need using digital and analog tools. It’s a simple idea with powerful results.
- February 7, 2007
- BY bea alvarez
TED Talk – MIT Fab Lab – Neil Gershenfeld
MIT professor Neil Gershenfeld talks about his Fab Lab — a low-cost lab that lets people build things they need using digital and analog tools. It’s a simple idea with powerful results. Source URL: http://www.ted.com/talks/neil_gershenfeld_on_...
- November 7, 2006
- BY bea alvarez
MIT Global Fab Lab – CNN
A factory of one’s own According to MIT’s Neil Gershenfeld, the digital revolution is over, and the good guys won. The next big change will be about manufacturing. Anyone with a PC will be able to build anything just by hitting ‘print.&#...
- November 6, 2005
- BY bea alvarez
Fab Labs unshackle imaginations – USA Today
By Mark Jewell, Associated Press BOSTON — When Makeda Stephenson compared flight simulator games sold in computer stores and didn’t find anything she liked, she didn’t stop there. The 13-year-old used a set of computer-controlled manufacturi...
- November 6, 2005
- BY bea alvarez
Imagine, Make It Real in Fab Lab – Wired Magazine
BOSTON — When Makeda Stephenson compared flight simulator games sold in computer stores and didn’t find anything she liked, she didn’t stop there. The 13-year-old used a set of computer-controlled manufacturing tools at a community cente...
- September 6, 2005
- BY bea alvarez
MIT Global Fab Lab – Wired Magazine
The Dream Factory From design to delivery, custom manufacturing is coming soon to a desktop near you. Writer Clive Thompson joins the fab Lab” revolution. If you could make anything you wanted, what would it be? For me, that’s not a rhetorical...
- February 20, 2005
- BY bea alvarez
MIT Global Fab Lab – Newsweek Magazine
INVENTIONS: A FACTORY OF ONE’S OWN by Rana Foroohar Neil Gershenfeld has boundary issues. As a teen, he irked his parents by asking to attend the local trade school rather than the mainstream academy for bright kids like himself. “I was good i...