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Fab@home

The Maker Economy > Personal Fabrication and Design > Fab@home
Fab@Home is a project dedicated to making and using “fabbers,” which are machines that can make things on your desktop. The website provides everything you need to know in order to build or buy your own simple fabber, and to use it to print three-dimensional objects.


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