The Lab for Humanistic Fabrication
Overview of our Equipment | Detailed inventory of Lab equipment | Our work | White Board Archive | Equipment recommendations
Tools and General Techniques
Documentation practices | Dremel rotary tool | Drill | Grinder | Lathe | Mill | Scroll saw | Tap and die | Technique | Torque
CAD / CAM / CNC
3D Models | 3D Printers | 3D Scanners | 3D Triangular Meshes | 6DOF Hexapod | CAD | CAM | CNC | Electrical Discharge Machining | Ink Jet | Micro and nanopositioning | Replicators | Stereolithography | Vinyl cutter
Materials and Media
Adhesives | Cable, Line and Rope | Composites | Construction toys | Foamcore | Glass | Liquids and gels | Metal | Mirrors | Moldmaking and casting | Paper | Plastic | Plexiglas | Scaffolding | Sculpting | Styrofoam | Textiles | Wood | Whiteboards | Wax
Electronic Equipment and Techniques
Haptics | Multitouch consoles | Open source hardware | Physical interaction design | Regular multimedia computers | Telepresence
Basic Electronics
Breadboards | Circuit schematics | Courses on electronics | Electronic components | Electronic design | Enclosures | Instrumentation | Printed circuit boards | Perf boards | Power supplies | Soldering | Wire-wrapping
Microcontrollers
Arduino | Atmel AVR | BASIC Stamp | Beagleboard | BUG | Bx-24 | JTAG | μPart | Microcontrollers | Phidgets | PIC | Picaxe | Pinguino
Input Transducers
Accelerometers | Analog input | Biometrics | Body fat impedence | Cameras | Capacitive proximity sensors | Compasses | Digital input | Digital scales | Electrocardiogram | Electroencephalograph | Electromagnetic Field | Electromyograph | Eyetracking | Flow sensors | Force sensors | Galvanic skin response | Game controllers | GPS | Gyroscopes | Image sensors | Inclinometers | IR ranging sensors | Laser ranging sensors | Magnetic field sensors | Microphones | Pedometer | pH | Photodetectors | Piezoelectric sensors | Potentiometers | Pressure sensors | RC circuits | Ribbon controllers | RFID | Rotation sensors | Six-axis transducers | Solar cells | Spirometer | Temperature sensors | Tilt sensors | Touch sensors | Ultrasonic sonar ranging sensors | Underwater sensors | Vibration sensors | Video tracking | Voice recognition | Volatile organic compound detectors | Voltage dividers | Weather
Output Transducers
AC lighting | Acoustic musical instruments | Air muscles | Amplifiers | Anamorphic projection | Audio recorders | Bone conduction | DC lighting | DC motors | Digital music players | Doodle-Pro | DTMF | Electroluminescent wire | Etch-a-Sketch | Glowsticks | Graphics | Head mounted displays | Lasers | LCDs | LEDs | Magnets | Mechanical motion | OLEDs | Output transducers | Peltier junctions | Printers | Puppets | Relays | Servo motors | Shadow art | Shape memory alloys | Solenoids | Speakers | Speech | Springs | Stepper motors | Synthesizers | Transparent displays | Video
Transceivers
APRS | Bluetooth | DMX | Digital Signal Processing | Embedded device servers | Hayes modem | Internet | Infrared communication | Lightwave communication | MIDI | Protocol | Radio frequency | Serial | Telephones | TTL | USB | WiFi | X10 | XBee and ZigBee
Software and Programming
Google | Illustrator | Javascript | Linux and UNIX | Max/MSP/Jitter | Pachube |PD Pure Data | PDF | PHP | Processing | Programming | Python | Simulation | SolidWorks | SPICE | Vectric Cut2D and Cut3D | Vi and Vim
Scientific Instruments and Other Projects
Astrolabe | Clock | Citizen science and technology | Cryptex | Franklin's kite | Historic device reconstruction | Orrery | Microscope | Ouija | Sundial | Telescope
