"A" Floor 3 - Room 355: Mechatronics
The Mechatronics laboratory is a facility of SISSA where students can find support for building and maintaining their experimental setups. Technical designs are manufactured by integrating hardware and software into novel solutions including electronic circuits (assemblies or PCB), 3D printed objects (additive manufacturing of plastic materials, resin casting), 2.5D - 3D milling (CNC manufacturing of plastic and light metals artefacts, woodworking), lasercutted PMMA, microcontroller programming (e.g. Arduino), actuator integration (e.g. stepper motors, speakers, shakers, visible and IR lights), sensor integration (e.g. temperature, light barriers). As an example of custom designed and fabricated parts we have: automated mazes for behavioural experiments, audio/video/odour/tactile etherogeneous stimuli to EEG sinchronization for psychophysical experiments, optogenetics devices, neural recordings devices, small mechanical parts and small to medium size framed structures (e.g. boxes, cases, EM and acoustically shielded booths).
The main available equipment is:
- high definition 3D printer - single material (3D Systems);
- low definition 3D printer - multiple materials (Formlabs);
- thermal oven;
- UV cure oven;
- spectrophotometer, light power meter;
- various electronic bench equipment and spare electronic parts.
Please contact Marco Gigante or Erik Zorzin if you plan to use this equipment: due to safety reasons, their access is restricted to the mechatronic technicians.