Vinyl Cutting

Works like a computer-controlled plotting device. By using a blade instead of a pen, it allows members to cut patterns out of a range of thin materials including cardboard, Vinyl, paper and leather. Such machine is ideal for packaging, design and branding purposes.

Electrical Testing

These tools allow members to undertake electrical circuitry tests and run system diagnostics on their products to ensure that the quality and performance of all designed electrical components are satisfactory.

Soldering Stations

These machines are ideal for connecting electrical components together.

Post Processing Tools

This area includes dedicated tools for cleaning, cutting, sanding and polishing purposes.

Assembly Equipment

These tools include screw driver sets, drills, clamps, measuring devices and series of other components that will facilitate the process of assembling different parts.

Visual Recording

These high-resolution digital filming cameras allow members to create professional looking videos to be used for investment pitch presentations, sales and marketing purposes or crowdfunding campaigns.

Audio Recording

This high-quality equipment allows members to record professional sounding audio to be added to existing or newly created videos.

Controlled Acoustic Environment

The dedicated media room provides a controlled acoustic environment to help achieve high-quality audio production.

Media Lighting

Professional lighting equipment is made available to members to help achieve high-quality video production.

Computer Workstations

Custom computer workstations are made available with pre-installed commercial 3D modelling software, allowing members to efficiently develop and refine their digital concepts before engaging with the prototyping resources.

Large Scale FDM 3D Printing

This 3D printer has a build volume of 1mx1mx.5m. This means that large-scale components can be produced in a single piece or large quantities of smaller items can be manufactured simultaneously.

Carbon Fibre 3D Printing

This 3D printer is able to incorporate a continuous strand of carbon fibre during the printing process to produce very strong and rigid components. This means that parts made by this machine can be used not only for prototyping purposes, but also directly as end-use parts.

Large Scale Laser Cutting

This machine has similar capabilities to its smaller “desktop” version located in the Prototype Lab, however, it is larger and is equipped with a more powerful laser. This means that such machine is capable of cutting larger and thicker materials within a shorter time.

CNC Machining

Capable of manufacturing both 2D as well as 3D objects out of solid blocks of materials. Compared to 3D printing, CNC Machine is able to produce strong end-use components within shorter time frames. It can also manufacture parts in materials that cannot be 3D printed such as certain plastics, wood and aluminum alloys. This machine is ideal if members want to manufacture high-quality components in the same material that will be used for the final product.

Robotic Arm

Dexter HDI from Haddington Dynamics makes automation accessible in a whole new frontier of applications. thanks to its exciting leap forward in encoder technology. The FPGA supercomputer onboard the robot gets 0.8-1.6 million points of precision (CPR) directly on each of the robot’s joints, allowing extremely imprecise parts to produce extremely precise movement.

This same encoder technology grants two disruptive features: motors no longer need to be placed inside of joints and their resolution is high enough to measure deflections in otherwise ridged components, allowing them to double as precise torque sensors. This drastically reduces the power and structural rigidity required of traditional industrial robots as the heavy motors and gearboxes are no longer being lifted but now act as a counterweight.