Welcome to MIDAS FabLab. This page offers summaries and links to finding out more about our equipment, becoming a MIDAS member, the skills/courses required for you to use equipment and the courses offered at MIDAS.
“FabLabs are a global network of local labs that are democratizing access to digital fabrication, allowing anyone to make almost anything. FabLabs are asking – and answering – how we will live, learn, work and play in a world where data can become things and things can become data.”
$430,000 of the best “FAB”rication equipment for public, academic & commercial use. The building is a newly renovated accessible space with state of the art, enterprise-level equipment and training on that equipment including: 3D Printers, 3D scanners, CNC milling equipment, woodworking, an electronics lab, teaching and co-working space and more…
Weekly tours Thursdays from 6-7 pm
Why is this valuable to our region?
- new technology and processes are increasingly valuable across industries, and MIDAS will allow every resident to experience, learn, use and benefit from innovation in digital fabrication;
- showcasing and increasing our regional expertise (we already have an impressive expertise pool in this sector and MIDAS will focus on it);
- attracting businesses needing this expertise;
- training locals (students and employees) to become qualified operators on this equipment;
- providing prototyping access locally for our businesses, instead of them having to go out-of-region to prototype;
- incubating business start-ups, new product development and research and development locally;
- provide space for public Maker groups and technology club meetings.
