Fab Foundation
Formed in 2009 to facilitate and support the growth of the international fab lab network as well as the development of regional capacity-building organizations. The Fab Foundation is a US non-profit 501(c) 3 organization that emerged from MIT’s Center for Bits & Atoms Fab Lab Program. Our mission is to provide access to the tools, the knowledge and the financial means to educate, innovate and invent using technology and digital fabrication to allow anyone to make (almost) anything, and thereby creating opportunities to improve lives and livelihoods around the world. Community organizations, educational institutions and non-profit concerns are our primary beneficiaries. The Foundation’s programs focus on: education (.edu), organizational capacity building and services (.org), and business opportunity (.com).www.fabfoundation.org
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Sep 9, 2026
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Joelle FosterGUEST
Wow.
Joelle FosterGUEST
So if you have just a concept, you can walk into the Fab Lab.
Joelle FosterGUEST
It's like membership based, like a gym.
Amanda BuhseHOST
Yeah.
Aaron CrowleyHOST
Hey there, friends and fellow fabricators.
Aaron CrowleyHOST
My name is Aaron Crowley, and this is the Fab Lab Podcast.
Aaron CrowleyHOST
Hey there, friends.
Aaron CrowleyHOST
Welcome back for another episode.
Olivia VinnellNARRATOR
Ingenuity is a hands-on engineering playground where families can experiment with machines, power, design and invention.
Olivia VinnellNARRATOR
It also houses the UK's first Fab Lab, meaning Fabrication Lab, a small-scale digital manufacturing workshop available to hire, where people can learn and develop new products.
Akia HenryNARRATOR
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Akia HenryNARRATOR
The Tar Tunnel When this eerie 18th century underground tunnel was being dug as a canal tunnel, the miners instead struck a spring of natural bitumen, which still oozes from the walls today.