The Fab Lab Kä Träre belongs to the Distance State University of Costa Rica. This is the only university in this country that has a model of distance learning whose main objective is to democratize higher education. This goal is also supported and promoted with the projects and initiatives developed in the Fab Lab, allowing the interaction of various populations with open technologies, applying these to different areas of knowledge in order to solve problems or meet needs in an innovative and functional way. The Laboratory develops projects in which Arduino and Raspberry Pi kits are delivered to students, as support tools in their courses and careers; also, projects that reach less-favored populations such as those deprived of their liberty, children and youth with the autistic spectrum, children and youth of populations at social risk, women entrepreneurs, among others.
e-NABLE / Enabling the Future
In 2011 when Ivan Owen received support from an on line community to collaborate with people who needed prosthetics, shared his designs using open source licences, and Applied the feedback to 8nnovate and gift a Read more…
