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Making Scientific Instrumentation Accessible to the Masses
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The Project
The Project
The Lab Fab project is an effort between our lab, The Autonomous Science Lab at NCSR Demokritos in Greece and The Center for Bits and Atoms at MIT to create an onlide portal of open designs of modular, low-cost, automation-ready scientrific instrumentation for autonomous science research in the field of sustanainable (bio)materials.
The Instrument Portal
The Instrument Portal
Low-cost hardware infrastructure has been a bottleneck to the democratization of self-driving labs and autonomous physical experimentation in the field of sustainable (bio)materials research. The Lab Fab Project is trying to solve that by providing open digital designs to some of the building blocks of possible self-driving (bio)materials engineering labs.This is a work in progress and we invite you to start remixing and building in parallel with us.
🧪 BUILDING BLOCKS
🧪 BUILDING BLOCKS
superBoards
superBoards
ESP 32 PCB boards for networked modular instrumentation control.
superNodes
superNodes
Visual programming canvas for instrumentation control and orchetration using nodes.
Enclosures
Enclosures
Sturdy sheet metal enclosures at variable sizes for instrumentation.
2-Axis nm Piezo Motion Stage
2-Axis nm Piezo Motion Stage
XY motion stage with nano positioning accuracy.
Kinematic Couplings
Kinematic Couplings
Tool integration mechanism for reproducible and precise mounting of printing tools & instruments without screws and integrated load cell-based zeroing mechanism.
USB u-Scope Camera
USB u-Scope Camera
Customized and integration-ready USB u-scope camera with kinematic couplings and motorized zoom/focus
3-Axis Cartesian Motion System
3-Axis Cartesian Motion System
XYZ motion system with upgraded open builds-style leadscrew driven axes.
2-Axis High Resolution Motion Stage (50 mm)
2-Axis High Resolution Motion Stage (50 mm)
50 mm -XY motion stage with micron positioning accuracy.
2-Axis High Resolution Motion Stage (25 mm)
2-Axis High Resolution Motion Stage (25 mm)
XYZ motion system with upgraded open builds-style leadscrew driven axes.
🧪 SYNTHESIS
🧪 SYNTHESIS
Powder Dispensing
Powder Dispensing
Automated powder dispensing based on the Archimedes principle.
✂️ PROCESSING
✂️ PROCESSING
Hybrid Manufacturing
Hybrid Manufacturing
Router with automatic tool-change for cutting & 3d printing.
Direct Ink Writing
Direct Ink Writing
Pneumatic extrusion of soft materials.
Fused Filament Fabrication
Fused Filament Fabrication
Router with automatic tool-change for cutting & 3d printing.
🔬 CHARACTERIZATION
🔬 CHARACTERIZATION
Micro-Extrusion Rheometry
Micro-Extrusion Rheometry
Capillary rheometry with online extrudate swell monitoring and lab scale for thermo-responsive soft materials.
Multi-Tool Rheometry
Multi-Tool Rheometry
Rheometry platform with inter-changeable end effectors for thermo-responsive soft materials .
Scanning Upright Optical U-Scopy
Scanning Upright Optical U-Scopy
3-axis Cartesian motion + 2-axis high res stage + motorized USB u-scope camera on kinematic coupling
Scanning Upright Molecular U-Scopy
Scanning Upright Molecular U-Scopy
3-axis Cartesian motion + 2-axis high res stage + motorized USB u-scope camera on kinematic coupling + Raman
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