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.
AgriLab is considered by some peers as a SuperLab/Super Fab Lab.
Early 2026 we are installing a lot of heavy duty metal working tools to prototype for agriculture.
FabAcademy instructor Bootcamp¶
in 2023 in Amsterdam http://academany.fabcloud.io/fabacademy/2023/instructors-bootcamp/ in 2024 in Leon 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 in Amsterdam , FabLab ULB in Brussels , FabLab Charleroi, Dilijan in Armenia, Aalto in Finland and other Fab Friends. Each week, students and instructors meet online and exchange on their progress, discoveries and challenges .
WHY 2025¶
A few students, instructors and friends of the regional from previous years met during WHY2025 hacker Camp : What Hackers Yearn https://why2025.org/ In the Village:Fablab/Fabacademy https://wiki.why2025.org/Village:Fablab/Fabacademy That year we didn’t built a fablab with machines, as the boat Serendiep was fully equipped. Serendiep organised many handson workshops https://wiki.why2025.org/Project:Serendiep Serendiep Website
The map of WHY2025 camp, FabAcademy village is pointed by the mouse
WHY2025 is a nonprofit outdoors hacker camp taking place in Geestmerambacht, the Netherlands (approx 42km North of Amsterdam), on 8-12 August 2025. The event is organised for and by volunteers from the worldwide hacker community. Knowledge sharing, technological advancement, experimentation, connecting with your hacker peers, forging friendships and hacking (everything from computers to food) are at the core of this event.
Our village camp at the start
Atomesphere is interesting during night. The setup in our village attracted a lot of attention.
I like cooking so I participate in the FoodHackCamp also. Here seitan sausage shared. Seitan is considered by vegan cooking as a subsitute for meat.
Kris giving a workshop in our village on KiCad.
Many officials conferences are run at the same time in different location. Most of them are recorded.
Badge is an important part of those event. The WHY2025 has a lot of issues that voluntaries helped to fix.
During that event, I want to explore more biohacking with mushroom. So we setup a mini biolab (campsite) and tried differents techniques. And discover that warm sun situation aren’t ideal.
A cheap stillbox, enought for sterile transfert.
I bring some liquid culture and Anne bring petri culture. I learned a lot from Anne. I did some of those operations before but with a lot of mistakes and failures, mostly learning from books…
A petri culture.
Grain sterilisation and selfmade jar with injection port and oxygene exchanges.
A mobile miscroscope. I want to understand how to see the spores. Size and shape are important for identification.
Collaboration with Anne, will probably lead to an Eramsus exchange on this mushroom culture subject.
MCH 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.
FabX 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.
FabX 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. Some student are funded by FranceTravail to find a job after the FabAcademy.
Agriculture¶
AgriLab is working on a distributed hands-on teaching Agricademy with a system similar to FabAcademy.