Innovation space & labs

Karlskrona Makerspace

The Karlskrona Makerspace is a research, education, and collaboration environment initiated and hosted by BTH and the Department of Mechanical Engineering.

The Karlskrona Makerspace is creating a platform to embrace and foster creativity among different disciplines and backgrounds. It is open learning environment where people can co-learn and co-create innovative and emergent solutions to some of today’s problems by the use of maker culture.

Virtual Production Studio Lab

The Virtual Production Studio Lab will be a technically innovative arena and a place where the movie and gaming industry meets the traditional manufacturing industry and creates excellence in Blekinge. The VPSL will be the infrastructure foundation for a clustre within Virtual Production, and together with the business community do research and develop the technology, as well as create training courses and educational programmes to secure the skills needed around the technology.

VOLVO CE Electric Site Scaled Demo

A fully functioning scale site targeted at demonstrating electrification and autonomy via the use of scaled down machines. A sandbox for the future. A 5m x 5m construction site with 4 fully autonomous HX02’s transporting material to and from 2 human operated loading machines simulating the two most common operations created a relatable operation to the broad audience of customers for this new electric autonomous site solution

Model Driven Decision Arena

One success factor in engineering design is the ability to make effective and risk-managed decisions in a timely manner. The proposed solution is a model-driven environment for collaborative decision making, a Decision Arena (Model Driven Decision Arena – MDDA). In the Decision Arena the stakeholder group interact with each other using models to generate and gather relevant data for the problem at hand. By communicating, sharing knowledge and values aided by data analysis and visualization constructs that provide capability to understand, contrast and compare, the group transform data into knowledge.

Industry 4.0 Cyber Physical Factory

With the ongoing transformation of industrial product development and production, and especially how Internet of Things (IoT), smart factories, cyber-physical systems and big data are driving technology capability – solutions must be ever faster, more diverse, more flexible and more intelligent, as well as sustainable, feasible, viable and desired. Together with Festo we have now installed an industry 4.0 facility to support our educational and research environments at PDRL and BTH.

BTH Innovation Labs

Our Innovation Lab is a place where students can create, discover, design, engineer and build. The space inspires and nurtures discovery. It houses tools and space for students to work independently and collaboratively for classwork, stem competitions, and learning from any discipline

Cyber Physical Factory - Festo Industry 4.0

With the ongoing transformation of industrial product development and production, and especially how Internet of Things (IoT), smart factories, cyber-physical systems and big data are driving technology capability – solutions must be ever faster, more diverse, more flexible and more intelligent, as well as sustainable, feasible, viable and desired. The Cyber Physical Factory is used as a platform both in research and training on Industry 4.0.

Mark Two Desktop 3D printer

The Mark Two combines Markforged’s unique continuous carbon fiber reinforcement with workhorse reliability for the strongest, most versatile parts.

Formlabs Form 2 SLA 3D printer

A laser desktop stereolithography (SLA) resin printer.

Build Volume: 145 × 145 × 175 mm

Layer Thickness (Axis Resolution): 25, 50, 100 microns

Laser Spot Size (FWHM): 140 microns

Fuel 3D Scanify scanner

SCANIFY by Fuel3D is an affordable, handheld 3D scanner that captures the world around you in its finest and fullest detail. Perfect for product design, 3D printing, or on-screen applications like animation and games development, SCANIFY will expand how you think about scanning.

Arduino DIY electronics

Arduino is an open-source electronics platform based on easy-to-use hardware and software. It's intended for anyone making interactive projects.

DJI Phantom 3 Se

Perfect for beginners or experienced drone operators, the Phantom 3 SE features the reliability, intuitive controls, excellent image quality,
and powerful flight performance that make DJI’s Phantom series so iconic. With its 4K camera, 4 km control range, vision positioning system, and 25-minute flight time, users can experience the thrill of flying with incredible ease.

Cubelets Robot Blocks

Inspire a love of learning through play. Cubelets® Robot Blocks make it fast and easy to engage children as young as four in learning by building robots. There’s no wrong way to build with Cubelets, so it is remarkably easy to transform these blocks into brilliant bundles of robotic curiosity.

Ultimaker S5 3D printer

The Ultimaker S5 packs powerful technology in a simple, clean, stylish enclosure that fits right in with your office. An enclosed front, with tinted glass doors, ensures that the internal temperature and airflow are optimal.

Ultimaker S5 build volume: 330 x 240 x 300 mm

Ultimaker 3 3D printer

Together with optimized Ultimaker Cura profiles, advanced material recognition system, and material-matching swappable print cores, Ultimaker 3 is engineered for high uptime and reliable, industrial-grade results. And with Cura Connect you can now manage multiple 3D printers from your desktop.

Ultimaker 3 build volume: 215 x 215 x 200 mm
Ultimaker 3+ build volume: 215 x 215 x 300 mm

Littlebits DIY electronics

littleBits makes a platform of easy-to-use electronic building blocks empowering everyone to create inventions, large and small.

3Doodler 3D printing pen

The 3Doodler is compact & easy to use, the 3Doodler Create extrudes heated plastic that cools almost instantly into a solid, stable structure.

Pocketlabs - a science lab in your pocket

PocketLab enables students, educators, and makers to explore the world around them. PocketLab brings science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) to life like never before possible.

Microsoft Surface Studio

Turn your desk into a Studio! Surface Studio is designed for the creative process. The 28” PixelSense™ Display gives you a huge canvas for all kinds of work. Use it upright, or draw on it like a drafting table.

Bare Conductive - Electric paint

Printed Sensors, just landed! Ready-to-use touch and distance sensors, printed with our Electric Paint

Arctec Leo Professional 3D scanner

The 80 frames per second 3D reconstruction rate makes Artec Leo the fastest professional handheld 3D scanner on the market. Artec Leo can 3D scan and process even large objects and scenes fast and accurately.

Flashforge Inventor II 3D printer

Inventor II supports PLA filament. PLA filament need to be quickly cooled to achieve a smooth print effect.

Build volume: 150×140×140 mm

Precision: ±0.1-0.2 mm

Stratasys Dimension 1200 ES 3D printer

Stratasys Dimension 1200es is an FDM based printer aimed squarely at companies that want to introduce additive manufacturing to their prototyping and product design scheme with high quality.

Build volume: 254 x 254 x 305 mm
Precision: 0.254 mm or 0.330 mm of precisely deposited ABSplus model and support material

Samlabs electronics and coding

SAM Labs provides everything you need to deliver the most engaging STEAM learning experience in your classroom. Giving you the tools and support to make the most of your lessons, SAM Labs makes learning interactive and engaging.

Raspberry Pi

The Raspberry Pi is a low cost, credit-card sized computer that plugs into a computer monitor or TV, and uses a standard keyboard and mouse. It is a capable little device that enables people of all ages to explore computing, and to learn how to program in languages like Scratch and Python. It’s capable of doing everything you’d expect a desktop computer to do, from browsing the internet and playing high-definition video, to making spreadsheets, word-processing, and playing games.

Omron Adept robots

For 30 years, Adept has been an industry leader in the development of innovative and powerful industrial robots for high-speed, precision manufacturing, packaging, and factory automation.

Ultimaker S3 3D printer

The new Ultimaker S3 delivers high-quality, composite-ready performance – all efficiently from your desktop. Packed with our latest technology, it is as easy to use as it is powerful, offering the most cost-effective way for disruptive businesses to adopt in-house 3D printing.

Ultimaker S3 build volume: 230 x 190 x 200 mm

Ultimaker 2 3D printer

Together with optimized Ultimaker Cura profiles, and engineered to perform, the Ultimaker 2/2+ is reliable, efficient, and user-friendly. Thanks to its support of a wide range of materials, it’s suitable for a huge variety of applications, from prototypes to customized tools. It’s a great all-around 3D printer that delivers consistent results.

Ultimaker 2 build volume: 223 x 223 x 205 mm
Ultimaker 2+ build volume: 223 x 223 x 305 mm

BoXZY Print/Carve/Engrave 3D printer

This is the world’s first rapid-swap hybrid 3D printer.

In seconds, the unique design gives you the power to go from 3D printing gears, to 3D carving a knife, to laser engraving your cat’s face on your wallet.

Microsoft Hololens AR

Microsoft HoloLens is the first self-contained, holographic computer, enabling you to engage with your digital content and interact with holograms in the world around you.

LEGO Mindstorms

Powerful LEGO MINDSTORMS® EV3! LEGO® MINDSTORMS® EV3 gives you the power to create and command your own robotic LEGO creatures, vehicles, machines and inventions! By combining LEGO® elements with a programmable brick, motors and sensors, you can make your creations walk, talk, grab, think, shoot and do almost anything you can imagine!

uFActory uArm Swift Pro robotic arm

uArm Swift Pro owns a position repeatability of 0.2mm, which is ready for delicate tasks like drawing, laser engraving, and more.

Teach uArm by hand, and make uArm repeat what it
'learns', simply by pressing the buttons on the base.

Suction cup, Universal Holder and Gripper to choose from. Built-in standardised plug-in allows you to switch tools quickly.

Machine Lab - G240

In addition to various hand tools, there are CNC milling machine, drill rig, measuring equipment, temperature chamber etc.

Computer Lab - G213

Here are 8 powerful computers with dual screens.
There are software for 3D modeling and programming as well as the standard programs available in the other BTH data rooms.

CAD Lab - G513

Powerful DELL graphic workstations for CAD and simulation/analysis tasks. Full mechanical Engineering software suite.

Woodworking lab - H244

Our lab where you can mainly work with wood and plastic. There is a planer, a circular saw, a band saw etc.. There are also various hand tools as well as a lot of handheld machines that can be used without training.

E-health Lab - H212B & C

In the E-health lab, we will start projects where several institutions work together on e-health at home.

Welding Lab - G203

In the welding lab there are three different welds, a MIG weld, a TIG weld and a electric weld for coated electrons. There are also hardness gauges, sheet saws, sheet metal bending machines, grinding machines and a saw saw.

Electronics Lab - G212

In the electronics lab there are four workplaces for the production of electronics prototypes. Each workstation is equipped with a measuring device, soldering equipment and Raspberry Pi and Arduino boxes. There are also two Omron robots and 4 computers that you can use in your project work.

Group rooms

8 project rooms that are mainly for projects together with external companies. The rooms have special locks that allow you to restrict access to the room to only those included in the group.
G215A / G215B / G220 / G221 / G226 / G227 / G228 / G229

Project room - G541

Project room on fifth floor of G building.