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Innovation Lab

Non-departmental Makerspace, built for teaching cohorts practical skills; heavy on computers and electronics, testing and analysis.

What is the Innovation Lab?

A space, outside of any one department, where students are encouraged to embrace rapid prototyping and an experimental mindset.

The innovation lab is curriculum driven, but leads to open self-directed experimentation. Bringing together hardware and software from across multiple disciplines, to support students to learn practical skills from programming and soldering, to desinging, making and testing complex systems. 

tbc

Robotics Challenge


Which UCL programmes use the Innovation Lab?

Innovation Lab Tools

Hardware

  • CO2 laser cutters
  • Standard Prusa i3 MK3s

 

Software

  • Fusion 360 (3D printing and laser cutting)
  • Cura Slicer 

 

Consumables

  • 3D Printing - PLA
  • Flex TPU
  • Laser Cutter Materials
  • poplar, birch and bamboo ply
  • cast acrylic
  • cardboard
  • rubber 'Tuck Shop' - spring kits
  • nuts 
  • bolts

 

Working in partnership with: 

Student societies: (Ingenium)

If you're a SU Society and want to get involved get in touch (come and say hi in person), we're not set up for direct digital comms, please don't write to us directly as we won't be able to reply.

Co-curriclar project, ask your module lead to get in contact with us. From Septemebr this process will be via moodle. 

Special Projects

  • Spacial Thomography (temporal ifrared characterisation) in partnership with x
  • Labcoats for Wheelchair usuals
  • Repair cafe for disabled tech 
  • Longatudinal research practical engineering education 
  • Pelton wheel vanes
  • PCB heat sinks
  • Rocket stabalisations and control
  • Kinetic Art (getty museum)
  • Windtunnels

Led by students

  • Underwater glider
  • Knee exoskeleton actuator
  • Mars rover

Meet the team

Ollie Collier - Innovation Lab Manager
Alex Charitonidis - Innovation Lab Technition
Matt Madden - Innovation Lab Technition
Isabella Barbaro - Innovation Lab Support Technition
Benjamin Barwise - Innovation Lab Support Technition

UCL Makerspaces

UCL Institute of Making

The Institute of Making is a multidisciplinary home for all those interested in the made world: from makers of molecules to makers of buildings, synthetic skin to spacecraft, soup to diamonds and socks to cities. We exist to explore, investigate and celebrate all aspects of materials and processes.

UCL Innovation & Enterprise

We’ll help you think and act like an entrepreneur. Whether you want to boost your employability, create your own business or solve global problems, we can help you make a difference and stand out from the crowd.

UCL B-made

B-made operates workshops as multidisciplinary centres. Bartlett Faculty staff and students, and UCL Here East partners, are invited to use B-made for their projects, from concept and design stages through to completion. B-made's aim is to merge crafts and manufacturing with science, technology and design, shifting towards new models of learning. 

UCL MechSpace

MechSpace is a dedicated and well-equipped space for students of UCL Mechanical Engineering to design and develop engineering prototypes.

LFW (light fab workshop)

Precision fab workshop

Here East
(you will work at Here East, robotics is what we're talking about) Sheop to buy things which are useful. 

SLade Studio
Cool stuff Pool St (lily) cross over of tech

PEARL