Devices and advice

You study architecture and need a model? Are you planning a wedding and want to make unique decorative elements? Do you love to tinker and craft - and preferably with state-of-the-art equipment that private individuals rarely have access to? Then you've come to the right place! Here you can read which tools are available to you in the SLUB Makerspace and how you can use them.

The Oculus Quest 2 in use

In the Makerspace, a wide range of tools and equipment is available to you as an SLUB user:in. Our virtual tour "Technology in the SLUB Makerspace" gives you a first impression of the available rooms and possibilities.

How to use our offer

You can use the tools independently for your projects. In some cases, you need an equipment licence to use the tools independently. This usually consists of an e-tutorial and on-site training. For more information on the use and booking of all equipment, please refer to their descriptions on the following pages. On site, our support staff will be happy to help and advise you.

Are you looking for a different tool or device? Then please use the search function in our general overview. Individual advice, tailored to your specific needs, is available free of charge at the Knowledge Bar.

In the course of the system changeover, not all users with a device licence have yet been activated for independent booking. If you are affected, please log in to the booking system with your user number and password and send us an e-mail. We will activate your account as soon as possible.

  • Lasercutter

    Lasercutter

    Whether wood, acrylic, leather or cardboard - with our laser cutter you can cut, mark or engrave a wide variety of materials. Particularly precise and detailed results are possible. All you need is material for laser cutting and a file with the job to be lasered.

  • 3D plastic printer

    3D plastic printer

    With our 3D plastic printer you have the possibility to print complete objects easily. For example, you can use a ready-to-print template from the Internet, construct an object using a CAD program, or digitize a real object using the 3D scanner. The 3D printer then builds the object of your choice layer by layer from liquid plastic.

  • 3D plaster printer

    3D plaster printer

    Our 3D plaster printer allows you to print three-dimensional objects, for example to produce a prototype or individual components. A specially prepared plaster is used as the starting material.

  • Styrofoam cutter

    Styrofoam cutter

    Styrofoam is difficult to work with knives. With our styrofoam cutter, you can precisely shape the material into the desired form. Both 2D and 3D models are possible. In this way, you can produce architectural city building models as well as concrete formwork and much more.

  • Thermoforming machine

    Thermoforming machine

    Thermoforming machines are mainly used to produce individually shaped, cut and printed plastic packaging. However, they can also be used to produce other precisely shaped plastic parts. The process scores particularly well with a combination of shaping, colorfulness and function.

  • Electronics workstation

    Electronics workstation

    You want to assemble a control prototype or repair a defective bicycle tail light, but you lack the necessary equipment? At our electronics workstation you have access to a soldering station, a hot air station and an oscilloscope.

  • 3D object scanner Artec Eva

    3D object scanner Artec Eva

    With our structured light 3D scanners, you can create textured and accurate 3D models of medium-sized objects, such as sculptures, machine parts or furniture. The device scans quickly while capturing dimensionally accurate, high-resolution images.

  • Nähmaschine

    Nähmaschine

    Kleidung flicken oder Kuscheltiere nähen, von Webware bis LKW-Plane: Sowohl Einsteigerprojekte als auch komplexe, kreative Projekte können Sie mit den Nähmaschinen im SLUB Makerspace meistern.

  • Small devices

    Small devices

    In the SLUB Makerspace, various small devices are available for you to put your personal projects into action. Here you will find, among other things, a jigsaw, a plastic bending machine, a pillar drilling machine, a hot glue gun, precision measuring devices and much more.

  • Raspberry Pi

    Raspberry Pi

    The Raspberry Pi is a mini computer in credit card format. It offers almost unlimited applications, for example as a media center, streaming server, robot component or as a particularly compact PC replacement. In the SLUB Makerspace you can borrow a Raspberry Pi including an expansion kit.

  • Work and teaching aids

    Work and teaching aids

    From virtual reality goggles to myo-gesture-controlled wristbands and digital cameras, you can use or borrow numerous working and teaching tools on site at the SLUB Makerspace to use for your individual projects.

  • Record and video digitization

    Record and video digitization

    You still have records at home and want to save the music on them for the future? Or you would like to play a VHS tape but don't own a recorder? In the SLUB Makerspace you can easily transfer your record music to a CD-Rom or your own laptop and save videos on a USB stick. You can also digitize LPs and VHS cassettes from the SLUB collection here.