Projects

Our FabLab staff has formed a national collaboration to answer the question, "How might academic library makerspaces impact undergraduate learning?" They have created and tested a set of maker-based competencies and have begun to advance national practice by way of professional development and assessment of learning outcomes.

Visit the Maker Literacies website for more info.

FabApp, OctoPuppet, and JuiceBox are a suite of robust management tools designed to streamline, organize, and add accountability and granular control to any makerspace or FabLab.

Learn more about FabLab Automation.

The FabLab designed and built Screeny McScreenpress - a four-station screen printing press with micro-registration for aligning multiple-color prints onto paper or fabric.

Learn about the making of Screeny McScreenpress.

The following resources represent the scholarship done in and through the FabLab, available openly to the global research community: 

• List of Maker Competencies, Including Preamble and Acknowledgments

• Maker Literacies for Academic Libraries: Integration into Curriculum

• Diversity by Design: How to Create and Sustain an Inclusive Academic Library Makerspace. Chapter within: Re-making the Library Makerspace: Critical Theories, Reflections, and Practices

• Walking the Walk: Iterative Design in Student Service Learning Projects

• Making Maker Literacies: Integrating Academic Library Makerspaces into the Undergraduate Curriculum 

• Intentionally Cultivating Diverse Community for Radically Open Access Makerspaces 

• Maker Competencies and the Undergraduate Curriculum 

• Makerspaces Empowering Graduate Student Research 

• Scaling the DIY Approach: Do-It-Together with Student Service Learning 

• 3D Printing Processes Applied to the Creation of Glass Art