CBA News & Notes
July 16, 2026
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CBA is co-hosting FAB26, the annual gathering of the fab lab network, at and around MIT July 27-31, with a regional festival August 1. The program is here:
with info for the MIT community here:
and for volunteers here:
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The National Fab Lab Network bill, inspired by CBA's fab labs, has been reintroduced in the House and Senate:
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Here's a video of a keynote conversation between Max Lobovsky and Neil Gershenfeld at RAPID+TCT:
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CBA theses have been submitted by Camron Blackburn on Zeptojoule Computing: Superconducting adiabatic logic for scalable energy-efficient computing:
by Jake Read on The End of GCode: Intelligent Modular Machines with Model Based Control:
by Jiaming Liu on Micro-Manufacturing for Scientific Instrumentation:
and by Sara Fernandez on White-Light Imaging Interferometry:
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Jake Read received the "most transformative innovation" prize at the MIT Initiative for New Manufacturing + NSF I-Corps
manufacturing research showcase:
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Miana Smith led a paper on robotic assembly for sustainable construction:
and received the Investor's Choice award at the MITdesignX Demo+Pitch Day:
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Congratulations to Camron Blackburn, Alex Wynn, and Miana Smith on being selected as Activate Fellows for science entrepreneurship:
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Alfonso Parra Rubio exhibited curved crease metal folding for the Structural Origami Gathering:
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Alum Ravi Pappu is mapping the ocean with autonomous sensors:
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We received a renewal from the NIH of our Diamond Rotors award, micromachining single-crystal diamond to create rotors that spin at millions of RPM in order to study the structure of large biomolecules:
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A portal for open scientific instrumentation was created from
CBA's collaboration with NCSR Demokritos and Superlabs:
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We're delighted to add to our digital fabrication facility a BOY electromechanical injection molding machine:
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