What is a Fab Lab?
A Fab Lab is a workspace, open to the community it serves, with the technology and tools to allow users to make almost anything. Fab Labs have a core inventory of machines and tools and participates in the global network of other Fab Labs around the world to share information, ideas, and to support all Fab Lab users in their creative enterprises. Fab Labs anywhere should be able to reproduce processes and create products in a similar way using the same basic set of tools and equipment. For more information, see the Building a Fab Lab section of the site.
The Fab Lab concept is a creation of Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Center for Bits and Atoms.