Photonics-enhanced Fablabs: Triggering innovation skills

with entrepreneurial students

Nathalie Debaes –

Vrije Universiteit Brussel – B-PHOT

Combining the world of..... Photonics Fab Labs

GRAND CHALLENGE OF THE PROJECT

PHotonics enhanced fAB LABS supporting the next revolution in digitalization

Coordination and support action – 731610 Start date : 1th December 2016 Duration : 30 M

The Imaging Source Europe GmbH The Imaging Source Europe GmbH

Optical Datacom Photovoltaics LED Lighting

Lasers in Manufacturing

Machine Vision Medical Optics Optical Components

Displays

PHOTONICS Key Enabling Technology

Laser Cutting

3D printing

Electronics 3D scanning

CNC milling machines

FAB LABS Innovation towards

Industry 4.0

Computer modelling design STEM projects Robotics

Students (15-18y)

Young professionals

Young minds (10-14y)

To stimulate interest in STEM and in a technical profession, with a special attention on achieving strong female engagement

To encourage experimentation with photonics and grasp the strong enabling character of this technology in combination with other KETs (Manufacturing, Electronics, Advanced Materials)

To introduce them to specific aspects of photonics and trigger innovation in their products, with focus on technological possibilities and entrepreneurial opportunities

TARGET GROUPS

Increasing Creativity, Stimulating Innovation… towards Industry 4.0

Photonics Workshops

Photonics Challenger projects

Photonics Toolkits for fab labs

INDUSTRY 4.0

33 Photonics workshops

To understand and to master the enabling character of photonics and its many applications by making, within a very short timeframe, some fascinating component, system or piece of art based on the unique properties of light. - 11 Photonics topics - About each topic a workshop for the 3

different target groups → 33 workshops

- Developed in close collaboration with Pilot Fab labs

My best friend in the dark: Photonics Cuddly Toy

Photonics IRglove

Photonics 3D picture with lenticular paper

Photonics Gobo slide projector

Photonics Art with Polarisation

Photonics Refractometer

Photonics Harp

Photonics colourful solar lamp

Self-adjusting light system

11 Photonics Challenger projects

An eye-opener to discovering the wide range of potential applications with photonics technology to trigger the creativity of the participants in cross-KET applications and to stimulate innovation with young professionals. - 11 Photonics topics - Award system

Build your own GreenHouse for home with Photonics

Lifi system in Trafic

Sound with light

Hidden image light board

Solar oven

Photonics and design for a comfortable home

Light, Love and the Dress

Scan your object directly into memory

Smart lamps

Creating objects for holography and/or lighting units for holograms

Build an invisibility cloak.

Photonics Toolkits

Low-cost Toolkits for Photonics-Enhanced Fab Labs to stimulate and inspire innovation with photonics technology and components . - General Photonics Toolkit - Workshop specific toolkits - 3D printer for transparent material

Photonics toolkits 3 OBJECTIVES

PHABLABS 4.0: 3 MAJOR PHASES

WP 4 DEC 2016

I PHASE 1:

Development phase

WP 4 13-14 JUNE 2017

II PHASE 2:

Test phase

WP 4 April 2018

III PHASE 3:

Roll-out phase

WP 4 May 2019

WP1 PHOTONICS WORKSHOPS

WP2 PHOTONICS CHALLENGER PROJECT

WP3 PHOTONICS TOOLKITS

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Development of the

33 “Photonics

Workshops”

Development of the

11 “Photonics

Challenger projects”

Development of the

“Toolkit for

Photonics Enhanced

Fab Labs” and

instrumentation

Testing of the

“Photonics

Workshops” with

pilot Fab Labs.

Testing of the

“Photonics

Challenger Projects”

with pilot Fab Labs.

Distribution of the

“Toolkits for

Photonics Enhanced

Fab Lab” and

instrumentation

Testing of the

“Photonics

Workshops” in other

Fab Labs.

Testing of the

“Photonics

Challenger Projects”

in other Fab Labs.

Photonics Challenger

Contest.

Roll-out of the

PHABLABS 4.0

“Toolkit for

Photonics Enhanced

Fab Labs.”

PAN EUROPEAN NETWORK

14 Pilot Fab labs Gender Action Team 11 European Photonics Partners

PAN EUROPEAN NETWORK

QUESTIONS & REACTIONS

More info on www.phablabs.eu

CONSORTIUM PARTNERS

VUB Vrije Universiteit Brussel Belgium Brussels Hugo Thienpont, Tine De Pauw

UoS University of Southampton UK Southampton Pearl John

UJM-IOGS

Universite Jean Monnet - Institut d Optique Theorique et Appliquee

France Paris Pierre Chavel, Matthieu Hebert

TUD Delft University of Technology The Netherlands Delft Aurèle Adam

SEZ Steinbeis Innovation gGmbH / Steinbeis-Europe-Zentrum

Germany Stuttgart Aude Pélisson Robert Gohla

NUIG National University of Ireland Ireland Galway Paul Mc Namara

JR Joanneum Research Forschungsgesellschaft mbh Austria Graz Frank Reil

IFN-CNR

Instituto Di Fotonica E Nanotecnologie Italy Milan Maria Bondani

ICFO Instituto de Ciencias Fotonicas Spain Barcelona Lydia Sanmarti

FTMC State research institute Center for Physical Sciences and Technology

Lithuania Vilnius Linas eriksonas Sergejus Orlovas

FBH Ferdinand-Braun-Institut, Leibniz-Institut fur Hoechstfrequenztechnik im Forschungsverbund Berlin e.V.

Germany Berlin Uta Voigt Kathalrina Kunze

FF FabLab factory ( NOLIMEDS) Belgium Aalst Stijn De Mil

EYEST Excite Youth for Engineering, Science and Technology ( vzw)

Belgium Gooik Nathalie Debaes

PILOT FAB LABS

FabLab Erpe Mere Belgium Henk Vanden Herrewegen VUB

FabLab Brussels Belgium Lieven Standaert VUB

FabLab Barcelona Spain Grégoire Durrens ICFO

Tinkerers Fab Lab Spain Milena Orlandini ICFO

ViNN:Lab Germany Frank Hartman FBH

Muse FabLab, Trento Italy Marco Fellin IFN-CNR

FabLabMilano powered by

Shapemode

Italy Martina Marini IFN-CNR

Makerspace of NUI Galway Ireland Connell Cunningham NUI

OpenFactory42 France Renaud Denis, Hubert Taxil UJM-IOGS

Fab Lab London UK Andreaw Gregson UoS

FabLab Graz Austria Mathias Helmut Friessnig JR

Fablab Karlsruhe Germany Christian Caroli SEZ

Science Centre TuDelft The

Netherlands

Teun Verkerk TUD

M-LAB Lithuania Giedrius Kavaliauskas FTMC

GENDER ACTION TEAM

Averil MacDonald Women’s International Studies Europe ( WISE )

Anastasia Pistofidou Fab Lab Barcelona

Maria-Cristina Ciocci Hogeschool West Vlaanderen

Karien Vermeulen De Waag

Bea Merckx (apologized) Arteveldehogeschool

Hugo Thienpont VUB (PHABLABS 4.0 coordinator)

Uta Voigt FBH (PHABLABS 4.0 partner)

Pearl John UoS (PHABLABS 4.0 partner)

Lydia Sanmarti ICFO (PHABLABS 4.0 partner)

Stijn De Mil FF (PHABLABS 4.0 partner)