IN this digital age there are surprising uses for the technology in both work and play. The latest is the Fab Lab (fab apparently for fabulous), a digital fabrication lab. I learned something about its existence, uses and presence in some parts of the country after attending a talk by Prof. Mona Alcudia of the University of the Philippines Cebu.

Professor Alcudia discussed the Fab Lab concept at length, what it was and what it could be used for. Nominally it is a digital fabrication lab that is meant to be a community resource that provides access to many fields - the environment, skills, materials and advanced technology - so that anyone anywhere near a Fab Lab can use its resources to make almost anything. They may be academics, small businesses, students, artists, etc. In other words, it is a place that provides a small-scale workshop to do digital fabrication. Customarily under the supervision of a workshop administrator, anyone can use it to play, to create, to mentor, to invent whatever. It is a place for learning and innovation that is a product of the new technology made available for a community to make use of.

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