FabLab EDP
This is where innovation is made
FabLab EDP's main goals are to strengthen the promotion of a culture of innovation and creativity within the EDP Group, to interact with Society by leveraging entrepreneurship and stimulating active citizenship, and to provide the means to generate and implement ideas, with a special focus on the 'Learn by doing' concept
Supporting the construction of early prototypes in an easy, fast and economical way is the mission of FabLab EDP - an innovation laboratory that puts rapid prototyping industrial tools at the disposal of the EDP community.
Available resources for projects and users
Fablab offers small and large milling machines, laser cut machines and vinyl cutters, 3D printers and scanners, a laboratory of electronic, computers and the respective CAD design and software programming tools, supported by open source software and CAD and CAM freeware.
Our limit is imagination, really. Proof of this are the projects already developed, such as wind turbines, wireless networks, 3D printers, drones, long reach antennas or a home powered exclusively by solar energy.
Fablab EDP is short for Fabrication Laboratory. The concept was created by the Center for Bits and Atoms, of MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), with which EDP has established a partnership. EDP Fablab is the result of the EDP Inovação’s accession to the MIT Portugal program.
FabLab EDP was the first digital laboratoty, in Portugal.
Fablab offers small and large milling machines, laser cut machines and vinyl cutters, 3D printers and scanners, a laboratory of electronic, computers and the respective CAD design and software programming tools, supported by open source software and CAD and CAM freeware.
The limit is imagination, really. Proof of this are the projects already developed, such as wind turbines, wireless networks, 3D printers, drones, long reach antennas or a home powered exclusively by solar energy.
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