Fablabs as New Innovation Centers

FabLabs provide a unique opportunity for people, students, makers and innovators to meet, learn, share and create together.

The two 3DEXPERIENCE Lab projects showcased in this video are perfect illustrations of it.

The 2 characters you are going to meet in the video - Erica Traini and Sean Yeatts - are 3rd year students at Northeastern University. They were also interns at the 3DEXPERIENCE Lab Boston from August through December 2017.

Listen them present their innovation stories: Let them show you how they leveraged Dassault Systèmes technologies, 3DPrinting, the lab facilities and more to go through the complete innovation cycle from initial CAD design using Solidworks to manufacturing and building their respective prototypes.

Erica designed the atmospheric rocket ‘Moxie’, a dual deploy rocket flying on a blue streak motor, that was launched 2200 feet in to the sky.

Sean chose to design a pair of Studio Reference Monitors for Music Production.

About the 3DEXPERIENCE Lab Boston Fablab

As a reminder, the 3DEXPERIENCE Lab Boston Fablab was notably set up in collaboration with MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms to be an important node in the network of global fab labs and facilitate digital fabrication.

To Dassault Systemes’s employees, customers and students of partner Universities, this lab provides physical space, digital tools, fabrication equipment and a low-barrier, accessible program at no cost to help them be more creative. Whether a user is working on a startup idea or wants to make something for personal use, she/ he is welcomed to use the resources of the lab. The lab is proud to host Fab Academy’s “How to make almost Anything” program for 2018, where over 100 labs across the world are connected through a Fab Foundation run curriculum, steered by MIT’s Prof. Neil Gershenfeld.