In a room filled with computers and lots of digital manufacturing equipment, a 13-year old girl from Boston created a pilot's control yoke with motion sensors by blending old electronic toys and parts. Makeda Stephenson made a customized one when she did not find any flight simulator games sold in computer stores of her like.
She wrote a computer program through a teen learning program at one of seven so-called Fabrication Labs that MIT has established in places as distant as Norway & Ghana. The program guides the plane's movements on her computer screen.
People at such "Fab Labs" think they have the potential to vastly expand the creative powers of the inquisitive lot and inject in a revolution of do-it-yourself design and manufacturing that can empower even the smallest of communities.
Why not? Can't find one, Can't afford one...then Make one!
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