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Imagine, Make It Real in Fab Lab

When Makeda Stephenson compared flight simulator games sold in computer stores and didn’t find anything she liked, she didn’t stop there.

The 13-year-old used a set of computer-controlled manufacturing tools at a community center to make her own simulator — one that lets her "fly" an airplane of her design over an alien planet born of her imagination.

In a room filled with computers and tabletop-sized manufacturing equipment, Stephenson created a pilot’s control yoke with motion sensors she fashioned from a melange of old electronic toys and parts. A computer program Stephenson wrote with help from a Massachusetts Institute of Technology student guides the plane’s movements on her computer screen.

Full Story: http://wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,69495,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_6

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