Figure 3.
Contrasting clean rooms and makerspaces (a) A technician working in the George J. Kostas Nanoscale Technology and Manufacturing Research Center at Northeastern University, photo is taken outside the clean room where an orange glass window prevents particular light wavelengths from polymerizing materials inside (Reprinted with permission courtesy of Matthew Modoono and Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts). (b) The Technology Office Innovation Laboratory (TOIL) at MIT-Lincoln Laboratory, as an instructor teaches a group of high schoolers how to 3D-print prosthetic hands (Reprinted with permission courtesy of MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, Massachusetts).