Ryan Reilly
Heya everyone! I'm a Multimedia Artist from Ireland with an Educational background in Graphic Design, Media, Arts & Technologies.
Creative Spark Enterprise FabLab
Fab Academy Diploma local documentation
Enterprise FabLab is a technical prototyping platform at Creative Spark in Dundalk Co. Louth Ireland, with more than 200 sq. meters of full equipped space, digital fabrication machinery and power tools. Enterprise FabLab is a digital fabrication laboratory and together with Creative Spark Print Studio, and Downtown Hub, we are the three creative hubs that provide space, deliver supports and connect clusters.
Group assignments
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Week 3 - Computer-Controlled Cutting
Do your lab's safety training, characterize your lasercutter's focus, power, speed, rate, kerf, joint clearance and types.
Week 4 - Electronics production
Characterize the design rules for your in-house PCB production process and send a PCB out to a board house.
Week 5 - 3D scanning and printing
Test the design rules for your 3D printer(s).
Week 6 - Embedded programming
Browse through the data sheet for your microcontroller and compare the performance and development workflows for other architectures
Week 7 - Computer-Controlled Machining
Do your lab's safety training, test runout, alignment, fixturing, speeds, feeds, materials, and toolpaths for your machine.
Week 8 - Electronics design
Use the test equipment in your lab to observe the operation of a microcontroller circuit board and send a PCB out to a board house.
Week 9 - Output devices
Measure the power consumption of an output device
Week 10 - Machine week - Rotary Pub FMCU
For this group assigment, we decided to make a scale model of a local pub to make a fun push button for the FMCU
Week 11 - Input devices
Probe an input device's analog levels and digital signals
Week 12 - Moulding and casting
Review the safety data sheets for each of your moulding and casting materials, then make and compare test casts with each of them and compare printing vs machining moulds
Week 13 - Networking and communication
Send a message between two projects
Week 14 -Interface and application programming
Compare as many tool options as possible
Oscar Diaz
Education and Operations Manager @ Enterprise FabLab. Fab Academy 2017 graduate.