The Kootenay Association for Science and Technology opened the MIDAS Fab Lab earlier this month. The lab and others like them around the world, provide public access to high-tech manufacturing equipment. MIDAS program director, Amber Hayes, shows off a prosthetic hand created at the Fab Lab. KAST built the $2 million MIDAS Fab Lab with funding from the provincial and federal governments, the Columbia Basin Trust and Community Futures. Fab Lab brings high tech tools to the public

Source: CBC News October 02, 2016 16:52 UTC