The article describes the partecipation of InMachines in Fab City Hamburg. In Particular InMachines will develop the Open Lab Starter Kit, a set of Open Source machines for Fab Labs. The set consist of 8 different machines to be developed in 24 prototypes for the next 3 years.

Global Fab Academy recitation on the making of digital fabrication machines. The recitation did show to Fab Labs worldwide the current work status of machine builders. In this event we have shown Fabulaser Mini and a preview of its building manual.

Making fabrication machines able to self-replicate their own parts represents a new perspective where Fab Labs act as a worldwide distributed manufacturing network. And with the flexibility offered by a wide range of digital techniques and processes built on top of shared open knowledge, Fab Labs can rapidly prototype machines to make (almost) anything.

Worldwide presentation about my activities of building machines in the Fab Lab, the past developments and the current working machines. Applications and implications of self-designing machines with local materials and community. Remarks on making the first completely self-built Fab Lab in the world.

Global Fab Academy recitation on the making of digital fabrication machines. The recitation did show to Fab Labs worldwide the current work status of machine builders. In this event we have shown Fabulaser V1, BigFDM and LaserDuo.

Workshop based on the lesson learned and the matured experience on making my large-scale 3D printer BigFDM. Participants learned about how was possible to design and produce a complete machine in just 2 months, the technical implementations of the machine parts and the required equipment to make one on their own.

Dreaming of FabLabs making FabLabs, this workshop will summarize experiences and challenges of developing LaserDuo, an open source dual laser cutter. From the need of replicating one of most used tool in a FabLab, LaserDuo further expands the possibilities of a CO2 laser cutter, with a second YAG laser source able to work with metals. Intented as replacement of commercial laser cutters, LaserDuo also offers 1.5m2 of working area, Z axis, and fully enclosed aluminium body.

Can you imagine to laser cut almost anything with a Fab Lab made machine? Being able to work with a wide range of different materials, this workshop will show the capabilities of LaserDuo, an open source dual laser cutter machine. 

Why we don't learn electronics by showing how we can use it to produce our own tools? Coming up from a broader philosophy that tries to understand how things works instead of being lazy and buying them, you will understand the basics of electronics by making a DIY Oscilloscope. The Oscilloscope will be locally produced using standard Fab Lab equipment, and can be later on further replicated or customized by the participants. During the workshop mini lectures about electronics will be given to let the participant understand what they are doing.

Advanced international machine building workshop. Having the Fab Lab equipment and a kit of pre-made parts, local engineering students from ENIT completely replicated from scratch my previously developed large-scale 3D printer BigFDM. Students had to learn about laser cutting, 3D printing, CNC milling, electronics production and design in just one week, to completely make the machine on their own. At the end of the workshop the machine was successfully produced and was able to print large objects. BigFDM is now the biggest 3D printer available in Tunisia.

Global Fab Academy recitation on the making of digital fabrication machines. The recitation did show to Fab Labs worldwide the current work status of machine builders. In this event we have shown LaserDuo, and the upcoming BigFDM.

Presentation about the past machine building activites and their outcome. Contexualization of the fabrication of LaserDuo and BigFDM with the local Taiwanese production capabilties.

Global Fab Academy recitation on the making of Fab Lab projects. The recitation did show to Fab Labs worldwide the current work status of  emerging Fab Academy projects. In this event we have shown the open source drones.

Commonly referred as an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), drones are becoming construction techniques, photogrammetry, transportation, agriculture, security, rescue, environmental research and many different applications. As Peter Drucker said “What gets measured gets managed“. Data interpretation is, indeed, part of every daily life in our networked society. The ability of drones to extract data and translate surrounding conditions into numeric information, turns UAV into a highly valuable technology.

Workshop about how make a drone with Fab Lab knowledge and technologies. Participants built a complete drone, including the fabrication of all the parts during the conference. The workshop had available a mini Fab Lab, and at the end of the workshop 10 drones were built. 

Workshop focused on building and replicating LaserDuo in just one month. Done in cooperation with the Helmut Schmidt University and a group of 8 Tunisian engineering students from Fab Lab ENIT, the workshop demonstrated how open source and Fab Labs make successfully possible to easily replicate such complex open source projects. 

By using standard Fab Lab equipment and Fab Academy knowledge the students were able to completely replicate LaserDuo and to have a working machine at the end of the workshop.

Global Fab Academy recitation on the making of digital fabrication machines. The recitation did show to Fab Labs worldwide the current work status of machine builders. In this event we have shown the work in progress on LaserDuo.

Repository containing the data and the information about how to replicate LaserDuo.

Laser cutters aren’t the sort of thing that you might think about making at home, but there’s no reason not to if you are careful and do your research. That’s what [Daniele Ingrassia] did with the Laser Duo, an open source laser cutter that has two light sources for cutting various materials. His final product is not a small device: it has a press-formed aluminum case that looks more like a World War I tank than a piece of precision machinery. But that’s for a good reason: you don’t mess about with lasers, especially the 130 Watt CO2 and 75 Watt Yag lasers that the Laser Duo uses.

Stahl, Kupfer oder Marmor – der Laser Duo soll alles schneiden. Dafür bringt das Gerät gleich zwei Lichtquellen mit und ist äußerst robust gebaut.

Almost every hobbyist laser cutter on the market uses a CO2 laser, because they’re affordable and versatile. Even a relatively low power CO2 laser can cut most non-metallic materials. But, metals are usually out of the question for CO2 lasers unless they’re very high power, making it impractical for hobbyists to cut metal. That’s why the LaserDuo uses a second Nd:YAG laser for cutting and engraving metals.

Almost every hobbyist laser cutter on the market uses a CO2 laser, because they’re affordable and versatile. Even a relatively low power CO2 laser can cut most non-metallic materials. But, metals are usually out of the question for CO2 lasers unless they’re very high power, making it impractical for hobbyists to cut metal. That’s why the LaserDuo uses a second Nd:YAG laser for cutting and engraving metals.

LaserDUO is an open source dual-wavelength laser cutter that includes a 130 W CO2 laser and a 75 W Nd:YAG laser and which cuts at a speed of up to 800 mm/s at a resolution of 25 microns (1000 dpi). Working volume is 1500 x 1000 x 500 mm. The cutter is fully enclosed.

The LaserDuo can cut wood, plastics, cardboard, cloth, leather, marble, and metals including steel and stainless steel, brass, copper, aluminum, magnesium, and zinc-plated steel. What makes this laser cutter stand out is that it is "open source," meaning that all mechanical drawings, electronics schematics, etc. are freely available.

Der neue Laser Cutter (Laserstrahlschneidemaschine) ist durch seinen Entwickler, Daniele Ingrassia, Open Source zugänglich, d.h. jeder kann den Bauplan der Maschine bald im Internet herunterladen und nachbauen. Wenn jemand die Maschine selbst zusammenbaut, versteht er die Maschine und ihre Funktionsweise besser und kann sie demnach auch in vielen Fällen selbst reparieren. Außerdem ist der selbst gebaute Open Source Laser Cutter, LaserDuo, kostengünstiger und verfügt über einen größeren Bearbeitungsraum als handelsübliche Laser Cutter.

Der weltweit größte Open Source Laser Cutter (quelloffene Laserstrahlschneidemaschine) wurde am Do, 30.08.2018 der Öffentlichkeit präsentiert.

Repository containing the data and the information about how to replicate BigFDM.

BigFDM official licensing page, from the Open Source Hardware Association.

BigFDM has a printing area of 800 x 800 x 900mm, a BOM less than $3,000, and can be made in any fab lab near to you!

Große Stücke wie Möbel oder Prothesen sind mit herkömmlichen 3D-Druckern schwierig herzustellen. Der BigFDM soll Abhilfe schaffen und ist Open Hardware.

German-designed and UAE-built, the Big FDM is both the second-newest and the biggest certified open 3D printer. It was certified on July 14, and has a massive 800x800x900mm printing area, making it possibly big enough to print a full replica of many of the other printers on this list.

Open source is considered a must-have for many 3D printing enthusiasts. Check out some of the best open-source 3D printers available today.

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Noumena presents N.E.RO [Networking Environmental Robotics], a project exploring robotic applications in real case scenarios from construction sites to mapping public spaces and precision agriculture.

satshacopter 250X is a quadcopter built around the satshakit flight controller. It is designed to be simple and cheap as much as possible, and to be easily made inside any Fab Lab.

This page shows results about my FabAcademy quadcopter final project: Autonomous Assembly aVOIdance Drone.

satshacopter 150X is a quadcopter built around the satshakit mini flight controller and derived from its big brother satshacopter 250X. It is designed to be simple and cheap as much as possible, and to be easily made inside any Fab Lab.

Digital manufacturing and additive processes have become more prevalent in recent years due to the increased

accessibility of tools and the individualization in the processes of prototyping. In comparison to the past, the

process was individualized, taking months and requiring detailed research and development made by physical

therapists and small manufacturers. Until now, this process is still done in the same long and expensive process.

MyOrthotics is an orthosis development using Digital Manufacturing (Reversing Engineering, 3D Printing,

electronics) to produce an individual and low cost solution for hand and arm disabilities, allowing patients,

therapists, and practitioners to develop this assistive device in collaborative maker spaces. 

The research presented in this paper is focused on proposing a new digital

workflow, involving unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) and machines learning

systems, in order to detect and map citizen's behaviors in the context of public

spaces.

satshakit-M7 embeds a Cortex M7 microcontroller, produced by STMicroelectronics the: STM32F765VIT6. Among others, the STM32F7 chip line and the Cortex-M7 architecture are including the following features: 32 bit architecture, 6-stage superscalar pipeline with branch prediction, dedicated DSP instructions,

 hardware acceleration for graphic computation

satshakit-nero is microcontroller board designed around the ATMega1284P and the ATMega328P chips and it is suitable for advanced drone applications and scenarios in which it is needed to have two available microcontrollers. The ATMega328P manages the flight with the Multiwii while the ATMega1284P can be used to inject and override the transmitter stick values (ROLL, PITCH, YAW and THROTTLE) or to manage a set of additional sensors. In the board there is a jumper to enable or disable the serial communication between the two microcontrollers (SERIAL_COMMON in the Eagle board).

An open source & fabbable ATMega2560 based microcontroller board.

satshakit-grbl is a microcontroller board designed to work with grbl that you can make in any Fab Lab. This board comes in two different versions, serial having integrated an usb port and a serial converter, and noserial for a bare metal grbl board. In both cases these boards will allow you to easily make your own machine controller for any kind of machine supported by grbl.

satshakit born during my FabAcademy2015 as one the first test boards for my quadcopter final project. As some of my fellow students had difficulties with Fabkit, they tried to make this prototype board. The board was very appreciated that now almost all my fellow students made it for their exercises, or use it as a starting point for their final projects.

satshakit 128 is microcontroller board designed around the ATMega1284P chip and it is suitable for complex scenarios in which is needed to have more flash and ram memory, but also the possibility to use 2 serial simultaneously.

satshakit mini flight controller is an open source, MultiWii compatible, small flight controller board, that is possibile to make in a FabLab. The design derives from satshakit fight controller.

satshakit micro is a downsized version of the satshakit laser and cnc, developed to be used in constrained space applications like embedding the board in textiles or in small objects, or useful for who wants just a bare metal board to start with, also easy to be modified and/or customized.

satshakit multicore boards born as a further experiment on MCU multithreading and networking. satshakit multicore boards have only the following modifications in confront of the standard satshakit: 4 extra pin headers (1 GND,1 VCC,1 A4, 1 A5). These pin headers serve also a structural pillars to build a modular satshakit tower. So modular satshakit share the same power source, and can direct communicate with I2C.

satshakit flight controller is an open source, MultiWii compatible, flight controller board, that is possibile to make in a FabLab. The design derives from both a satshakit board and dual processor flight controller of my FabAcademy2015 final project.

Born as an evolution of satstep6600, satstep2660 is an stepper driver board that aims to be an advanced combination of features/performance while keeping a FabLab-reproducible open source design. Apart from just improving some of the satstep6600 features, such as microstepping precision, it also implements additional programmability and sensing functionalities. The TMC2660 on which satstep2660 is based, offers an SPI interface, allowing to dynamically change several of the configuration parameters, for instance microstepping and current among others.

satstep6600 is a low cost and fabbable stepper driver. Inspired by the PiBot TB6600 stepper driver, satstep6600 is designed on purpose to maintain all the high power specs while being safe to be operated and easy to build, even using the stardard Fab Lab equipment.

After some time of buying expensive FDTI cables (about 20$ nowadays) and having the need to use several USB to serial converters for my Fab Academy students, I developed my own fabbable solution. satsha-ttl features a CH340G USB to serial chip and it is designed to be cheap, reliable and easy to be reproduced. It uses an LDO voltage regulator and a jumper to switch between 3.3V and 5V, both for power and logic levels of TX/RX. 

An easily fabbable and portable oscilloscope.

Open source fabricatable linear guide system.