Aug.8, 2012
A largest network of digital fabrication laboratories, FabLabs, enabling the development of a variety of digital device prototypes using software and hi-tech equipment will be created in Russia in the next two years.
Sherry Lassiter, programs manager of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Center for Bits and Atoms MIT Media Lab), the representative of Fab Foundation, announced the plans at a seminar held at Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys (MISiS).
A fablab is generally equipped with an array of digital fabrication tools for rapid prototyping, such as 3D printers, milling machines, laser cutter, vynil cutter machines, electronics workbench, computers and programming tools, supported by open source software. It gives everyone in the community from small children through to entrepreneurs, the capability to create and innovate smart devices for themselves, to build structures, arts and crafts.
There are more than a hundred such labs across the globe. In Russia, the first FabLab opened in April on the premises of MISIS University.
It is planned in the next two years more than 20 labs for personalized digital production will be set up in Moscow and its surroundings, and another over 100 across Russia.
Sherry Lassiter said that it is planned to create a fund, an analogue of the US FablabFund in Russia to implement the educational program for training, to provide consulting services and support concerning the opening of new laboratories. The Russian Ministry of Economic Development is expected to finance the equipping of the labs.
Source: venture news
Posted in Fablabs
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