Build almost anything—for class, for research, or for your own use—in the Edgerton Student Shop. Students can access training and a wide range of fabrication tools from milling machines to lathes and a 3-D printer.
Funded by MIT, with capital-equipment acquisitions covered by an endowed gift from the Lemelson Foundation, the shop offers intensive training classes of 12 hours per student. With nothing but raw materials, students learn to build machines from scratch. While mainly a metalworking shop, we also offer 3-D printing facilities on site.
Students have fabricated parts for the VERTIGO experiment, now installed in the International Space Station, and parts for a dark-matter detector installed 2,000 feet underground in New Mexico.
Our new home is now in the basement of 6C, just off the Infinite Corridor (Campus Map). The MakerLodge Metropolis Shop is next door.
Training
Full training for the shop takes four 3-hour-long sessions. We schedule one or two trainings a month, and each training accomodates six to eight students. So, it may take a while before we can schedule you in.
If your need is immediate, please email the shop manager, Mark Belanger (mdbelang@mit.edu) and arrange to meet with him and discuss ways he might be able to accommodate your need.
If you are invited to a training and the schedule does not work for you, you may defer to a later date.
If you would like to sign up for trainings, please fill out this Google Form. https://forms.gle/9oZxU479qGAsUcGFA
Questions? Please email Mark! (mdbelang@mit.edu)
Calendar
The shop is open from 10:30 to 5:30 M-F (except for holidays). No jobs may be started after 4:30 PM.
On occasion, the shop manager may decide that the shop is at its maximum capacity safe operation, in which case no new work can be started until the manager deems it safe to do so.