The Dr. Allan Greenberg & Dr. Ellen Junn Warrior Fab Lab is a new place at CSU Stanislaus where students can use their skills to create something spectacular. This unique design space welcomes all students who are interested in creating interesting designs, allowing them to test their skills of creativity.
The Warrior Fab Lab is located on the second floor of the Vasche Library in room 259 and is tentatively set to be open later this fall for students to utilize.
Bradon Hoover, a Warrior Fab Lab assistant, explained the purpose of the space.
“The Warrior Fab lab is a maker space that is designed to allow students, organizations, faculty, and departments to come in here and use this space as a prototyping, manufacturing, and design classroom,” he said.
The lab offers great tools to help students bring their design concepts to life.
“We have 20 3D printers of various models, 14 design computers with Adobe Creative Cloud and other various software like 3D modeling, iPad’s, Heat pressers, vinyl, laser cutters and so much more,” Hoover explained.
The Warrior Fab Lab has equipment to make buttons, T-shirts, mugs, hats and much more. The space will be especially great for on-campus organizations to utilize for marketing materials to promote their club. There is a small fee for students to purchase the products that they create but at a lower cost than other reputable brands.In terms of creating marketing materials for yourself, they are not for commercial use, but they can be a place used to prototype your concept, Hoover added.
In terms of creating marketing materials for yourself, they are not for commercial use, but they can be a place used to prototype a concept, Hoover added.
“Anything that is in here is basically something that you can’t quite get in a place anywhere else on campus,” he said.
Designing on computers and virtual reality (VR) is free for students to use, while 3D printing requires a small fee. A cashier system will be in place at the lab so students who utilize the 3D service and like the product they produce, can then purchase the design.
Even though most of the equipment in the Warrior Fab Lab is catered to art and design students, there are plenty of things to offer everyone.
Oculus Quest, a VR headset, allows students to take virtual tours of museums like the Smithsonian Institution. They also offer access to VR interactive models of the human body, which could be beneficial to nursing students.
Currently the lab is helping with a project called the One Metric Ton of Carbon Project, which is intended to spread awareness about lowering our carbon footprint. For the project, they were able to create an augmented reality website.
Stan State students from a variety of majors are interested in what the lab will have to offer.
Jasmin Hammond (sophomore, Business) thinks the lab will be a convenient tool for getting projects done.
“I think I would use it as a student because with my schedule, I’m at school 24/7, and it’s really too difficult to do a project at home when you’re at school already, so it’s perfect,” Hammond said.
Seth Zaragoza (junior, Biology) thinks his student organization will benefit from the services the lab has to offer.
“I would definitely utilize this,” Zaragoza said. “I am running an organization, the Pre-Dental Society, and we are definitely in need of merch and want to better promote our club.”
You can follow the Warrior Fab Lab on Instagram to stay up to date: @csustan_fablab
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Picture of the Warriors Fab Lab computers.
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One of the Warrior Fab Lab’s 3D Printed Model.
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Samir Espinoza (senior, Computer Science) at work. (Photo, Brian Miske)
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A 3D printing pen in action at the Warrior Fab Lab. (Photo, Brian Miske)
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Printing up new possibilities
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