FAB LAB UFV

The space was born as a platform for interaction that seeks synergies between individuals from different branches of knowledge in an environment that encourages direct experimentation based on the pedagogical method of learning by doing, mixing different technologies.

The documentation and dissemination of the creation process allows a purification of the result by iteration of the design that allows the information to be shared with the entire maker community so that anyone can take advantage of it, improve it and share it again.

Digital manufacturing labs pave the way for manufacturing customization, causing a relocation of production to a local scale. Socially, it allows people to be empowered by appropriating production techniques that solve real problems in their daily lives or simply produce what does not exist in the market.

A FAB LAB (Fabrication Laboratory) is a customized digital fabrication workshop that has computer-controlled machines to design and produce physical objects using rapid prototyping technology with additive and subtractive techniques, mixed media forming methods, electronics, and programming. Among these machines we will find 3D printers, laser cutters and CNC milling machines, as well as traditional machining tools.

Being a FAB LAB means belonging to a connected global network of laboratories coordinated by the FAB Foundation, sharing a common ideology and inventory that favors the transfer of learning and collaborative creation. The concept of FAB LAB appeared in early 2001 as a distributed education project at the Center for Bits and Atoms (CBA) of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), which resulted in the FAB Academy in 2009.