What is Fab Lab

A Fab Lab (Fabrication Laboratory) is a small-scale workshop with computer controlled tools with the aim to make "almost anything". Fab lab is a disruptive technology. In the same way the micro computers changed computing, desktop fabbers (fab lab machines) may change manufacturing as a result of which people could produce things at home or within small organizations.

Fab Labs can serve different objectives: (i) Rapid prototyping of industrial products or (ii) Low cost and on-demand manufacturing from "open source designs" fo... LEARN MORE