Home Fab Lab Construction Set

[mathias]

Taking inspiration from the “Construction Sets” on https://www.opensourceecology.org/development/ and the Gingery book series, I want to create a graph of projects for putting together a small home fab lab (or hackerspace) with open source projects.

The root point right now for that graph is a commodity 3D printer, although we’ll also link to RepRap and Voron/CoreXY printers that can be built with that printer.

Other tools on the list:

• a laser cutter
• a CNC router or small desktop CNC mill
  • One option for CNC router is a Maslow4: https://www.maslowcnc.com/
• a heat-set insert machine
• a filament recycler/extruder
  • inspired by http://recreator3d.com/ and https://youtu.be/WUcZyOWUzcY , be able to use cut strips from PET bottles to "pull" filament
  • But also, ideally modular so that it can also shred and process PLA for recycling, so waste, supports, etc., can be re-used.
• basic electronics lab tools like an oscilloscope and JTAG programmer

Some around the house things that’d be neat if we also had OSS projects for:

• a modular robot vacuum project
• an indoor hydroponic/aeroponic system

[mathias]

This is also intended to dovetail into / enable other projects like the Solar Webserver

[mathias]

The latest here for the filament recycler? https://www.appropedia.org/Recyclebot

[mathias]

All hardware should implement the "RNote self-documenting" idea where the hardware itself contains a USB-mountable disk drive (or network mountable volume) that contains all 3D design files, all firmware, and a doc on how to compile the firmware and how to build the hardware.

[mathias]

Todo:

• https://hackaday.com/2024/12/25/open-source-multimeter-raises-the-bar-for-diy-tools/