"Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.” — Archimedes
If you can dream it you can design it, and if you can design it you can fabricate it. That’s the position of Fab Labs, a creative design and fabrication network. Fab Labs began as an outreach project of the Center for Bits and Atoms at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under the directorship of Neil Gershenfeld. In November 2017, Fab Labs expanded into Santa Fe when it partnered with the Santa Fe Business Incubator to create the Archimedes Fab Lab, which provides job shop services for 3-D Printing, Computer Numerical Control (CNC) machining, laser cutting and marking, vinyl cutting, and computer-aided design (CAD) services. But Santa Fe is so fabulous it’s opening a sister lab, Fab Lab Santa Fe, at Santa Fe Community College on Monday, Feb. 12.
Operated by Fab Lab Hub, LLC, Fab Lab Santa Fe offers job training to SFCC students through paid internships and apprenticeships. The program is designed to give students an edge in the job market for digital manufacturing. The public is invited to tour the lab at 3:30 p.m. and join in the opening ceremony, which includes the announcement of a statewide entrepreneurship partnership between Fab Lab Hub and the New Mexico State Library and a 5 p.m. talk by SFCC interim president Cecilia Cervantes; Patrick Duran, a field representative of Congressman Ben Ray Luján’s; and other speakers. The opening ceremony is in the lobby of SFCC’s Trades and Advanced Technology Center (6401 Richards Ave.).
