Unwrapping the Fab Lab

The Fab Lab is slowling starting to blossom as boxes get ripped open and funky, little gadgets start to appear. The garganteous shop bot is almost complete and the laser cutter, which has been the display machine of the lab, has been up and running for days. Most of the rooms have been painted and the electricians are in the (slow) process of of making sure each room has reliable power.

I was given the mentally numbing but oddly satisfying task of organizing the electronics room. With air conditioning flowing and Old Crow Medicine Show blaring in the background, I spent the better part of a day finding homes for little processors and resistors. I'm pretty sure I ruined some of the bits and pieces by taking them out of their anti-static compartments, but I say that if the little buggers can't handle a little static then they'll never make it in the real world. It's a mean, lonely, staticy world out there.

Rashid and Masoud, two IT fellows from Nangarhar University, have also been helping prep the lab. They've been working on setting up the network and other computery-type things.