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3D printing
FDM and resin printing for fixtures, housings, lab adapters and functional parts — and the material choices that decide whether they last.
- FDM · resin
- PLA · PETG · TPU · engineering resins
- Tolerances & print settings
Robotics & Materials Lab · Automat Labs
Hardware
you can hold.
Printed parts, soft actuators, moulded rubber and silicone, and the sensors that make them measurable. Prototype fast, test it, iterate — engineering automation starts with a part on the bench.
01Topics
Four ways to make things.
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Soft robotics
Actuators and grippers made of flexible materials, driven by air — gentle, compliant motion that rigid mechanisms can’t do.
- Pneumatic actuators
- Soft grippers
- Pressure control & sensing
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Rubber & silicone moulding
Printed moulds, cast silicone and rubber parts: seals, grips, soft bodies and custom shapes in small batches.
- Mould design & printing
- Silicone casting · shore hardness
- Degassing · release · finishing
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Prototyping & sensors
Microcontrollers, sensors and quick mechanical builds to test an idea before committing to it — shared with the Sports lab.
- ESP32 · Arduino
- IMU · pressure · temperature
- Rapid iteration
02Project log
Coming soon.
Builds, failures and what they taught — published here as the lab gets going.
Got a part to prototype?
Ideas, questions or a hardware problem to solve — get in touch.