Invent Penn State has officially opened its new “makerspace” called OriginLabs where community members can learn for free how to use high-tech machinery like digital fabrication equipment to create wood and metal designs.
OriginLabs occupies part of the first and second floors of the Eric J. Barron Innovation Hub at 123 S. Burrowes St. and is open to the public for free one-hour training sessions on specific machines as well as scheduled workshops for certain skills.
Community members can utilize new equipment, including computer numerical control machines that will take a picture of a design and physically create it, whether it’s through sawing wood, painting or 3D printing.
Jose Nuñez, the shop manager at OriginLabs, said there will always be an employee in the lab to assist people using the equipment during the training sessions and during regular hours from about 8 a.m. to 5…
