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‘We can make almost anything !’ in the tagline of Fab Lab.
Fab Lab, a brain child of Dr.Neil Greshenfield (Director, Center of Bits and atoms ,MIT(USA)) is a collection of commercially available machines and parts linked by software and processes MIT has developed for making things. The project aims to give ordinary people around the world the technology to design and make their own stuff.
Vigyan Ashram is the first fab lab outside MIT. It is established in 2002 and received capital equipment by NSF-USA and IITK. Fab Labs is kind of distributed international network of scientific researchers and community inventors to define, conduct and apply new discoveries and inventions for benefit to both research and local communities.
Goal of the Fab Labs is to find solutions to some of the most pressing problems the world faces today through distributed research network. VA has taken various appropriate technology projects under Fab lab. Some of them are i) Human power based lighting solution ii) LED lights iii) Egg incubator iv) Agri sensors etc. VA Fab Lab hosts several innovative students projects (Diploma-Graduate-Masters) every year.
More projects on vigyanashram.wordpress.com
Vigyan Ashram also host ‘Fab Academy’ course at Pabal for running the fab lab.
Fab lab at Pabal currently comprises of following equipments:
Laser cutting Machine
Roland Milling Machine,
3 D scanner
Vinyl cutting machine
MTM Snap Machine
Electronic table (Oscilloscope, Soldering equipment etc.)
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