About AgriLab¶
AgriLab started end of 2018, as an open Innovation center in Agriculture and FabLab. It wants to be the bridge between Agriculture, FabLab and the opensource world.
With 1200m2, in a huge building on the University UniLasalle Polytechnique campus in Beauvais (France), we are installed in an agriculture exploitation. We can directly test in the field. A full tractor can enter in the Lab. We have cows and chickens next door and a variety of crops to test different prototypes. We even have some facility to host peoples several days. And we have a huge local network: the agriculture chamber is next door, some major constructor of agronomic equipment have their headquarters in the neighbourhood.
Location : AgriLab is located one hour from Paris and less than 5 minutes from an airport serving part of Europe. Located on the campus UniLasalle Polytechnic University, AgriLab has a large number of infrastructure and can facilitate access to housing.
AgriLab Team¶
Luc Hanneuse, Jérome Rançon , Nicolas Kaufamnn & Céline Marciniak .
UniLaSalle Group¶
UniLaSalle is a Polytechnic Institute with more than 4,200 students on 4 campuses (Amiens, Beauvais, Rennes, Rouen), born of the merger of five engineering schools and the creation of a veterinary school. At the heart of the challenges of transition, it is shaping a new generation of Grande École that unites the sciences of Life, Earth, Environment and Energy with industrial sciences and digital technologies. As a member of the worldwide LaSalle Universities network, UniLaSalle is pursuing its 170-year-old educational project: revealing the potential of each individual. It is based on a relationship of trust and a rich student experience, founded on a collective pedagogy that encourages action for the common good. UniLaSalle is committed to building a more humane, fairer and more sustainable world through its research serving companies, industries and regions, and through its training courses.
Tomorrow starts HERE.
FabAcademy node¶
AgriLab meets all FabAcademy inventory requirements, but goes much further. AgriLab has large equipment for machining because AgriLab is also intended for the agricultural world, Equipment for SMT electronics and composite 3D printers exceed the limited scope of a Lab in urban area. AgriLab is surrounded by agricultural land and allows trying prototypes in real conditions & outside.
Visit AgriLab during this world tour FabAcademy 2021 student’s Bootcamp.
AgriLab is considered by some peers as a SuperLab/Super Fab Lab.
FabAcademy instructor Bootcamp¶
in 2023 in Amsterdam (http://academany.fabcloud.io/fabacademy/2023/instructors-bootcamp/)[http://academany.fabcloud.io/fabacademy/2023/instructors-bootcamp/] in 2024 in Leon (https://academany.fabcloud.io/fabacademy/2024/bootcamp-instructors/)[https://academany.fabcloud.io/fabacademy/2024/bootcamp-instructors/]
For the Student Bootcamp Luc produce a few boards :
The Cowduino in 2022 , https://fabacademy.org/2021/labs/agrilab/cowduino2022/
The Cow Board, a Soldering level 0 , https://gitlab.fabcloud.org/academany/fabacademy/2021/bootcamp/students-bootcamp/-/tree/master/AgriLab/Electronics-level0
FabAcademy Regional meetings¶
AgriLab is involved in Regional meeting group with the Waag FabLab Amsterdam , FabLab ULB in Brussels , FabLab Charleroi, Dilijan (Armenia) and other Fab Friends. Each week, students and instructors meet online and exchange on their progress, discoveries and challenges .
2022¶
2022 meeting was merged with MCH2022, May Contain Hackers event in Holland with a FabAcademy village. Some camping tent , and other tools to prototype.
Setup is a gigantic campsite
FabLab in a camping tent during the night.
Electronic prototyping.
2021¶
Fab 16 , August 2021 ,
Those moments are more than student work review, we exchange a lot on many subjects. It is also important to keep a friendly and fun atmosphere.
2020¶
FabX , July 2020 , We succeed to gather during the short pandemic pause during the 2020 summer to do a FabX meeting in AgriLab and had a great time.
Accreditation and European ECTS¶
With accreditation system you will have 2 diplomas : the engineering diploma delivered by UniLaSalle at the end of 5 years of studies and the FabAcademy diploma delivered by FabFoundation. AgriLab deliver 30 ECTS through the European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System recognised by european universities.
AgriLab is working on a partnership with another Agriculture University to enable exchange for the FabAcademy cursus.
Ecosystem and Financing¶
We are working to find a diversity of financing to help students accessing FabAcademy program.
Agriculture¶
Agriculture is a challenging subject. Many peopels have a non realisitic point of view on Agriculture. You can not build a community food process like you grow a basilic plant in your appartment.
This year AgriLab installed a GPS RTK antenna on the Lab to provide up to 1mm GPS precision in static position and about 1cm in moving position via the Centipede Newtork : https://centipede.fr/ .
Some of our prototype of agricultural robots use this technology. We hope to communicate more soon.