FamiLAB

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 be a community that fosters learning and creativity through hands-on projects, collaboration, and the sharing of skills & tools to improve ourselves and enrich the world around us.

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 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. 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.

• New Member Orientation Info - New Members - Start Here!
• Contact Members
• Map of Important FamiLAB Locations
• Food Guide
• Vendors (Materials)

• Facebook
• Twitter
• Slack
• Calendar
• Forums
• IRC Channel

• Contact us through our contact form
• To become a FamiLAB member, see our Membership information page.
• Come to a Class, Event, or Open House
• Read our FamiLAB Blog
• Join FamiLAB's Forums
• View our Calendar
• Open a pull request: FamiLAB GitHub
• Check out cool things we do and make:
  • YouTube
  • Google Photos (PicasaWeb) Pics tagged "FamiLAB"
  • Flickr Pics tagged "FamiLAB"
  • @Famduino - FamiLAB WebCam Image Links

Read more about our culture at What Can (and Can't) I Do At FamiLAB.

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!

Wiki Wine Wednesday is coming up again on February 15th. If anyone would like to help build up and update the FamiLAB wiki please check out our Wiki Wine Wednesdays page for more information. Also be sure to visit our Wiki Wine Wednesday - Eventbrite page to register to attend. Free food and drinks are provided for wiki editors only.

• Our recent payment from the AmazonSmile Foundation was $104.84 for activity from 10/1/16 to 12/31/16.

Let's see if we can improve upon that. Visit our AmazonSmile page and sign up on Amazon.com to use AmazonSmile.

It's a quick and easy process and buying eligible items from Amazon gives us a percentage of each sale.

• The “No Lathe” Pen Challenge Makes You Think Creatively

No Lathe Pen Challenge

Help us win a wood lathe by competing in this challenge. Make a working pen without using a lathe.

• Cigarette Butt Bucket

There is now a cigarette butt bucket outside of the lab at the end of the stairs.

This is so the cigarette butts can now be disposed of properly instead of being tossed anywhere.

AmazonSmile is a simple and automatic way for you to support FamiLAB.
The AmazonSmile Foundation will donate 0.5% of the purchase price from your eligible AmazonSmile purchases.
It doesn't cost anything to use this feature and the cost of every purchase doesn't change even though we get a percentage of every eligible item.
For more information on how to use AmazonSmile to support FamiLAB please see our Amazon Smile page.

General Donations: Would you like to help FamiLAB financially without being specific? There's many things that the lab needs for day to day functioning. Check out our General Donations page to make a non-specific donation and see what it goes towards.

Crowdfunding of Projects: We can always use some extra help in obtaining extra things for the lab. We have a few things listed on our Crowdfunding page.

• Updating the Wiki. Visit Wiki Wine Wednesdays for more information.
• Glassworking Area
• Electronics Workbench
• Welding Area
• Darkroom
• Diy_BioTech_Lab
• 4x4 CNC Router Upgrades
• CNC Plasma Cutter Build
• [PPPRS AKA Pow-Pow-Power Racing Series]

• Index of Past Projects
• Documenting various things is a project in itself! Here is a list of documentation projects
• Classroom buildout at the new space
• Server Consolidation project
• Famicam v2 project
• Cool Exciting Projects - (Out of date)
• Screen Printing for Lab

• Running FamiLAB - Roles & Responsibilities, Opportunities to Get Involved
• What Can (and Can't) I Do At FamiLAB
• How to: Classes, Workshops and Events
• Checking items out of the lab
• Focus and guidance
• Dream Equipment
• List of FamiLAB Google Docs
• Contributing to the FamiLAB Blog - PLEASE DO!
• Projects In Progress

• Up to date information coming soon.
• NEW: Impact Making. Get involved in maker activism!