Analytics Lounge, NFP
Community Lab & Makerspace

Equipment and Capabilities

Please note that we are currently in need of a building. As such, we are focusing on outreach events and utilizing portable equipment only. However, an entire list of equipment is included here:

ELECTRONICS LAB

  • Analog Oscilloscopes
  • Saleae Logic 8
  • Fluke DMM
  • Rigol MSO1074Z-S
  • Soldering Equipment
  • Aoyue 474A++ Through-Hole Desoldering Station
  • EPROM Programmers, UV Erasers

PROTOTYPING LAB

  • Up! Mini 3D Printer
  • Multicam CNC Router
  • Omax 55100 Waterjet Machining Center
  • Fadal 4020 Vertical Machining Center

CHEMISTRY/PHYSICS LAB

  • Leica S430 Scanning Electron Microscope
  • Amray Scanning Electron Microscope
  • XRF - Bruker Titan S1 800 Protable X-Ray Florescence Spectrometer
  • Gamma Spectroscopy Equipment
  • ICP-MS - Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry
  • Amscope Light Microscope with Brightfield/Darkfield/Phase Contrast and Panasonic GH-3 Camera Attached

Waterjet being used to make the control box for a computer controlled beer brewing systems managed by the EPICS control software used by particle accelerators and other experiments.
Portable X-Ray Fluorescence being used to characterize the phosphors in a white LED.
Portable X-Ray Fluorescence being used to characterize the phosphors in a white LED.
Cutting through glass, marble, steel, and everything in between, Analytics Lounge is one of the few, if not only makerspaces with a CNC waterjet.
A Fadal VMC4020 Vertical Machining Center running one of its first jobs after posting code generated by Autodesk Fusion 360 CAD/CAM environment.



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