Name
FVTC Fab Lab
Location
Appleton, WI
Description
Our Fab lab provides widespread access to modern means for invention. We began as an outreach project from MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms (CBA). CBA assembled millions of dollars in machines for research in digital fabrication, ultimately aiming at developing programmable molecular assemblers that will be able to make almost anything. Fab labs fall between these extremes, comprising roughly fifty thousand dollars in equipment and materials that can be used today to do what will be possible with tomorrow's personal fabricators.
Fab labs have spread from inner-city Boston to rural India, from South Africa to the North of Norway. Activities in Fab Labs range from technological empowerment to peer-to-peer project-based technical training to local problem-solving to small-scale high-tech business incubation to grass-roots research. Projects being developed and produced in Fab Labs include solar and wind-powered turbines, thin-client computers and wireless data networks, analytical instrumentation for agriculture and healthcare, custom housing, and rapid-prototyping of rapid-prototyping machines.
We take it one step further by outreaching to local inventors helping them with design and prototypes.
Specialties
We have these machines at our disposal: laser engraver, injection mold machine, FDM (Fused Deposition Modler), Objet Alaris 30 (both for 3D printing), two bench top CNC milling machines, two vinyl cutters (often used for copper sheets) and more!
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Contact phone number
920.993.5177
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