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FamiLAB is Central Florida’s provider of space, tools, and community for creative technical learning and projects. If you are looking for a great place to meet like-minded people, learn, collaborate on projects, and have access to great tools, FamiLAB is the place for you!

FamiLAB’s mission is to promote the sharing of knowledge through the creation of safe and fun spaces to learn. These physical and virtual spaces contain the tools, materials, and expertise that rapidly accelerate learning but are not normally accessible to the general public.

FamiLAB welcomes makers, artists, thinkers, hackers, crafters, and everyone else – come wield your imagination in any (legal and ethical) way you see fit. Think of FamiLAB as a club for geeks! Whether you are an art geek, hardware geek, photography geek, code geek, lab geek, or any geek in between–we would like you to join us at the lab and teach a class, lead a lecture, or simply work on a project while surrounded by awesome people. If you can think of it, come build and share it at the lab.

Following the philosophies of the worldwide Hackerspace movement, FamiLAB seeks to be a diverse community where people of various backgrounds can come together to teach and learn. We provide a space, tools, and a community of geeks for you to utilize. Our current tools include hand tools, basic power tools, soldering stations, 3D printers, a laser cutter, and more!. Interests among current members range from abstract mathematics to microcontrollers, iPhone and Android application programming, Arduino design and coding, PCB design, FPGA design, Quadracopters, etc. We’re always looking for new people to collaborate on current projects or bring new projects to the table.

For more information on FamiLAB, use our Contact form , follow us @FamiLAB on Twitter, collaborate with us on #familab on FreeNode IRC, or come to a Class, Event, or Open House.

To become a FamiLAB member, see our Membership information page.

If you are already a FamiLAB member, then PLEASE get a wiki account (instructions on the New Member Orientation Info page, create your user page, and share your knowledge!!

Current News

We're looking to schedule classes for the next few months - Workshop_and_Class_Ideas
RFID system access control is up and running! Members, please see Mack for a card.
We've moved to a _much_ bigger space!! FamiLAB_10x
We've made major updates to the website - check it out at www.familab.org
We are launching the FamiLAB YoungMakers program - check it out at youngmakers.familab.org
We have approved Revenue Sharing for classes / workshops. Contact classes@familab.org for more information. We need more classes & workshops - they can be small or large - and we will provide administrative assistance.

Current Projects

Documenting various things is a project in itself! Here is a list of documentation projects
FamiLAB 10x - Our New Space!!!
Classroom buildout at the new space
Quadcopter build
Server Consolidation project
Famicam v2 project
Cool Exciting Projects - (Out of date)
Screen Printing for Lab