Fab Lab IPB is specially devoted to engineering and design. The FabLab IPB is open to the community and seeks to spread the technologies that enable the rapid prototyping and rapid manufacturing from a concept or idea. The FabLab IPB intentds to be the meeting point for companies, teachers and students and to provide space, machinery, tools and all the needed support for the development of products and ideas. Born at the Bragança Polytechnic Institute at the Superior School of Technology and Management, it intends to serve the whole community region in which it operates. It organizes courses and workshops, free and paid, for the entire population who wants to increase their knowledge in this technology.