Getting Started
Explore
Find a machine suitable for your needs
Learn
Attend our mandatory training session
Brainstorm
Brainstorm for that kickass product idea
Create
Start building and ask a TA if you need help
General safety:
If there is an accident and someone is hurt:
- Call 9-1-1 from your cell phone or lab phone
- Stay with the injured person until help arrives (alert others if possible)
- Alert MakerSpace staff
- Report the incident to the manager
If you see something dangerous or someone working in an unsafe manner, tell a staff member or manager.
Working in the MakerSpace:
- Keep your workspace clean
- Clean and return all tools to where you got them
- Shut off and unplug machines when cleaning, repairing, or oiling
- Keep the floor around machines clean, dry, and free from trip hazards. Do not allow chips or debris to accumulate.
- Mop up spills immediately and put a chair or cone over them if they are wet enough to cause someone to slip
- Equipment
- Only use equipment you have been trained for and approved to use
- Report any broken equipment to a staff member
- For training and specific instructions, refer to the signs posted at each machine
- All milling and cutting machines/tools must be turned off by 9:45pm
- Protective gear
- Wear gear appropriate to the machine or tool you are using, see signs at each machine for required gear
- Hand tools
- Never use a broken tool, and report any broken tools to a staff member
- Use tools as they were designed to be used
- Chemicals
- TAs must take hazardous waste training before using the chemical baths
- Everyone must use gloves when working with the bath
- Always check the temperature before reaching into the bath
- No external chemicals are allowed in the lab without approval from the manager or assistant manager, and a SDS must be submitted
- Materials
- External materials brought in to be cut on the machines must be approved by a staff member
- Be mindful of waste, return unused raw materials that you don’t need to the MakerSpace
- Laser cutter
- All laser cutter users must be trained
- ALWAYS watch your work, no matter how long the cut job takes, there is always a fire threat
- NEVER cut a material that you can’t definitely identify or is not on the approved material list
- PVC and chlorinated plastics can NEVER be cut, they will give off a deadly gas
- Food
- No food in the MakerSpace
- Drinks with coffee cup lids or holes are not allowed
- Only sealable drinks are allowed
- Violators will be asked to leave for the day