Winter 2014: “Fab Lab ICC” sneak peek!
Fab Lab ICC
Turning ideas into creative solutions, one project at a time
Of all things, Wes Koschke needed to make a hand. And a fully functional one, at that – for 13-year-old Kara Marr, who was born with a condition called symbrachydactyly, leaving her right palm with no fingers.
Koschke didn’t have $42,000 to purchase Marr, the daughter of a family friend, a prosthetic hand – and he also didn’t have access to a 3-D printer (going rate: $3,000) to print his own.
The solution? Enter Fab Lab ICC, a new creative space on the Independence Community College campus that provides access to cutting-edge tools for design, experimentation and problem-solving, both for students and members of the community and region.
Its mission statement: “to realize that anyone, anywhere can make (almost) anything.” No one knows that better now than Koschke…
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