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April 30, 2025

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• CBA, the Fab Foundation, and Neil Gershenfeld are honored to appear in Miniatur Wunderland (we assisted with their linear motors):\ \

https://www.instagram.com/p/DI9uvxEPKeE

\ - 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:\ \

<https://fab25.fabevent.org>

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- Neil Gershenfeld wrote a retrospective 20 years after doing the first interview in *Make* magazine:\
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  [https://makezine.com/article/uncategorized/the-band-began-to-play-the-history-and-future-of-fab-labs/](https://makezine.com/article/uncategorized/the-band-began-to-play-the-history-and-future-of-fab-labs)

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  - MIT's home page highlighted how fab labs are helping to bring manufacturing back to America:\
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    <https://news.mit.edu/2025/bringing-manufacturing-back-america-fab-labs-0413>

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    - MIT's home page also featured VIK, a structural electronics voxel invention kit developed by a team led by Miana Smith and Jack Forman: \
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      <https://news.mit.edu/2025/new-platform-lets-anyone-rapidly-prototype-large-sturdy-interactive-structures-0318>

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      - Wedyan Babatain led a study on laser-induced graphene for the fabrication of flexible electronics:\
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        https://advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/advs.202415272

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        - Valdemar Danry led a study on generative 3D models in design and fabrication:\
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          <https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/3dp.2023.0309>

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          - Patricia Stathatou led a team that studied the role of scrubbers in reducing the environmental impact of shipping:\
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            <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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              <https://news.mit.edu/2025/new-look-centuries-old-practice-letterlocking-0304>

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              - MIT wrote about Skylar Tibbits, including his early work on reconfigurable robots in CBA:\
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                <https://news.mit.edu/2024/finding-sweet-spot-between-radical-and-relevant-skylar-tibbits-1103>

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                - Ivana Dama performed on a theremin developed in a collaboration with Quentin Bolsee:\
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                  <https://arts.ucla.edu/single/sound-and-science-exploration-of-sonic-arts-in-a-changing-world/>

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                  - Neil Gershenfeld spoke with Jonathan Ledgard about interspecies money:
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                    <https://www.interspecies.io/lectures/tehanu>

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                    A report has been released from a workshop that he co-organized on decoding communication in other species:\
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                    <https://www.interspecies.io/publication>

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                    - We're pleased to have added to our digital fabrication facility new tools for metal 3D printing:\
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                      <https://cba.mit.edu/tools#Desktop_Metal_Shop_System>\
                      <https://cba.mit.edu/tools#Desktop_Metal_Studio_System>

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                      multimaterial 3D printing:\
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                      <https://cba.mit.edu/tools#Prusa_XL>

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                      and multimaterial laser engraving:\
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                      <https://cba.mit.edu/tools#xTool_F1_Ultra>

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