CBA News & Notes
April 30, 2025
- CBA, the Fab Foundation, and Neil Gershenfeld are honored to appear in Miniatur Wunderland (we assisted with their linear motors):
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Registration is now available for FAB25, the annual gathering of the fab lab network co-hosted by CBA, held this year in Brno and Prague from July 4-11:
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Neil Gershenfeld wrote a retrospective 20 years after doing the first interview in Make magazine:
- MIT's home page highlighted how fab labs are helping to bring manufacturing back to America:
- MIT's home page also featured VIK, a structural electronics voxel invention kit developed by a team led by Miana Smith and Jack Forman:
- Wedyan Babatain led a study on laser-induced graphene for the fabrication of flexible electronics:
https://advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/advs.202415272
- Valdemar Danry led a study on generative 3D models in design and fabrication:
- Patricia Stathatou led a team that studied the role of scrubbers in reducing the environmental impact of shipping:
https://news.mit.edu/2025/study-burning-heavy-fuel-oil-with-scrubbers-best-option-bulk-maritime-shipping-0404
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Jana Dambrogio has written about CBA's contribution to reading unopened letters, in a book about her work on letterlocking:
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MIT wrote about Skylar Tibbits, including his early work on reconfigurable robots in CBA:
- Ivana Dama performed on a theremin developed in a collaboration with Quentin Bolsee:
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Neil Gershenfeld spoke with Jonathan Ledgard about interspecies money:
A report has been released from a workshop that he co-organized on decoding communication in other species:
- We're pleased to have added to our digital fabrication facility new tools for metal 3D printing:
https://cba.mit.edu/tools#Desktop_Metal_Shop_System
https://cba.mit.edu/tools#Desktop_Metal_Studio_System
multimaterial 3D printing:
and multimaterial laser engraving:
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