What Do We Have?

Makerspace Machine Room: use your mouse, keyboard or touchscreen to have a look around

Here is a brief introduction to all of the tools/ facilities that we have in The Makerspace.

Hand Tools:

We have a really good selection of hand tools, that cover wood, plastic, and metal.

The tools are loosely organised by type, as follows:

  • Fasteners & Files
  • Cutting & Hammers
  • Marking & Layout
  • Clamps

Whenever you’re in the workshop it’s important that you put your put tools back in their correct place.

Rapid Manufacturing / CNC equipment:

These are all the CAD/ CAM based machine, you will probably be most familiar with 3D printing and laser cutting. Rapid manufacturing can be arranged into 2 distinct groups; additive, and subtractive. 3D printing is additive manufacturing, this is where material builds on itself to create a part, subtractive manufacturing is the complete opposite, it is where material is removed to create you part, as in laser cutting or machining.

The Rapid manufacturing available in the Makerspace is as follows:?

  • Ultimaker S5 (Large format FDM 3D Printer)
  • Ultimaker S3 (Small format FDM 3D Printer)
  • Formlabs Form3+ ( SLA 3D printer)
  • "Print & Cut" Roland Vinyl Printer
  • Carbide Nomad (Small format Desktop CNC)
  • Laser Cutter - (80 watt - 900 x 600mm bed size)
  • Pocket NC 5-axis desktop milling machine
  • Denford Router (Larger Format Desktop CNC)

Machine tools:

 We have a separate room in the workshop for all of our machines, the room has an excellent dust extraction system that should always be used with the machines. Before. Before using any of the machines, you must first receive an induction from the supervising technician, it doesn’t matter if you have used a machine before, we need to be sure you will follow the correct safety procedures.

If you would like to book an induction, please email makerspace@qmul.ac.uk or sign up under the "Access & Inductions" page. The machines we have are:

  • Disk Sander
  • Bobbin Sander
  • Centre Lathe
  • Hot Wire Cutter
  • Vertical Bandsaw
  • Belt Sander
  • Horizontal Bandsaw
  • Pillar Drills
  • Milling machine
  • Scroll Saw

Plastic Forming:

Plastic is one of the most versatile materials that you can using in prototyping, and beyond 3D printing, there are many other ways to work with it, that will usually create a stronger end result. The laser cutter mentioned previously works great with most plastics, and for 3D forms we have the following machines:

  • Strip heater
  • Profile trimmer
  • Vacuum Former
  • Convection Oven

Sheet metal:

 In engineering you will often be required to use metals to meet certain requirements in your design. We can shape metal with a number of the machine previously mentioned, for work with soft, and thin sheets metals we have the following:

  • Guillotine
  • Sheet Metal Benders

Electronics:

We have an area dedicated to electronics in the main workshop, with soldering stations, and fume extractors, and a range of instruments and consumables for traditional electronic manufacturing.

We also have a specialist electronic technician in the workshop, able to give excellent guidance and advice on electronics based projects.

Power Tools:

We have also have a selection of Power tools available for use. These are part of a sign out / sign in system and can be checked out by users during workshop sessions. Please speak to a technician about availability:

  • Hot Glue Gun
  • Orbital Sander
  • Hot-Air gun
  • Dremel's or Rotary multi-tool
  • Cordless Drill
  • Handheld Router
  • Router Table

If you have any further questions regarding the facilities in the Makerspace, don’t hesitate to contact us on makerspace@qmul.ac.uk