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Discuss “The Fabulous Fab Lab”

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon compete with those at MIT on a yearly basis. However, lately MIT has also been aspiring to a higher ideal: Star Trek.

MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms (CBA) is not composed of dreamers, though. Staff and graduate students have been working over several iterations to produce what they are dubbing "fab labs" -- or fabrication laboratories -- and are installing them in a mesh across the globe, from above the arctic circle in Norway to the crowded central region of India. Their latest installation, in Boston's sister city of Secondi-Takoradi in Ghana, was just installed this summer. Under the directorship of MIT Professor Neil Gershenfeld, CBA has created a machine that hopes to advance the very nature of manufacturing.

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