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Open Source Hardware Fab Lab

Step-by-step guides, equipment lists, and curricula for launching an open source hardware fab lab.

The pitch

Open Source Hardware Fab Lab is a practical playbook for libraries, universities, and community groups that want to launch a shared fabrication space without starting from scratch. It provides step-by-step build guides, equipment recommendations, and ready-to-use curricula so a new lab can get from empty room to first workshop faster. The domain name says exactly what it is: open source hardware, fab lab, all in one clear, memorable address.

For Libraries, universities, and community groups setting up their own fabrication spaces.

Build it with your AI agent

The build brief for this riff: the full pitch plus the ground rules, ready for an AI coding agent.

Build Open Source Hardware Fab Lab

You are a product engineer working with an AI coding agent. Build the product described below as a polished, launchable first version. Make your own decisions where the description is open: the point is a finished product, not a plan.

Project name: Open Source Hardware Fab Lab
Tagline: Step-by-step guides, equipment lists, and curricula for launching an open source hardware fab lab.
Domain: opensourcehardwarefablab.com
The pitch: Open Source Hardware Fab Lab is a practical playbook for libraries, universities, and community groups that want to launch a shared fabrication space without starting from scratch. It provides step-by-step build guides, equipment recommendations, and ready-to-use curricula so a new lab can get from empty room to first workshop faster. The domain name says exactly what it is: open source hardware, fab lab, all in one clear, memorable address.
Audience: Libraries, universities, and community groups setting up their own fabrication spaces.

Requirements:
- Choose the simplest stack that genuinely delivers this. A focused web app or site is fine; deployable to a single host.
- Shipping quality: clean layout, fast load, sensible defaults, readable on mobile.
- Design language: the product has its own identity, not a template default. Palette: steel blue #3b5b7a, safety orange #e97a3c, bench gray #a7adb3, chalk white #f4f1ea. Visual style: technical workshop minimalism. Build the UI in that theme - backgrounds, accents and type personality - rather than a generic dark-gray-and-lime scheme.
- Build the core user loop end to end. Avoid dead buttons and placeholder pages.
- Keep the first version tight enough to launch this month. Note anything deliberately deferred.
- No cryptocurrency, gambling or pay-to-win mechanics, even as a joke.
- When done, list the 3 most useful things to do to reach the first real users.

Respond with the finished build.

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