About
A Fablab (short for: fabrication laboratory) is a fully equiped fabrication workshop which gives everyone in the community from small children through to entrepreneurs and businesses, the capability to turn their ideas and concepts into reality. The aim is to make almost anything!
Fablab is an international community that wants to share knowledge. Fablabs worldwide have the same equipment and capabilities. So it is possible to share digital designs and fabricated solutions between labs, forming a network of intellectual property and idea exchange.
Fablab Amsterdam is hosted by Waag Society, a non profit organisation active in the field of social innovation through creative technology.
Fablabs are community inventors' workshops where new products can be built by both businesses and individuals. It was born as an outreach project by Professor Neil Gershenfeld, Director of the Center of Bits & Atoms, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
