President Obama recently visited a
Fab Lab in the Technology Department at Lorain County
(Ohio) Community College where he got a quick
demonstration of a ShopBot in action.
Fab Labs are MIT-organizied technology facilities
with digital fabrication equipment intended to educate
communities in how new digital tools can be used to
design and make almost anything. They are used for local
training at all levels and for helping small business
start-ups fabricate prototypes. ShopBots are a standard
fixture in most Fab Labs and we are glad the President
got a look at how digital fabrication works and how it
can empower the productivity of communities and small
shops across the country. We hope he will get a chance
to visit one of the
100kGarages.com
workshops before long to see how digital fabrication
works for distributed production. [See
full article from Cleveland Plain Dealer]
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