Engrenage
| Engrenage | |
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| Status | active |
| Country | Switzerland |
| State or District | Neuchâtel |
| City | La Chaux-de-Fonds |
| Date of founding | 2017/04/01 |
| Last Updated | 2024-04-15 |
| Website | http://engrenage.ch/ |
| git | https://github.com/petaflot |
| https://twitter.com/Engrenage1 | |
| https://engrenage.ch/index.php/contact/URIs of the form "https://engrenage.ch/index.php/contact/" are not allowed. | |
| Mailinglist | https://lists.saitis.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/engrenage.pub |
| Snail mail |
Prairie 32 |
| Number of members | 5 |
| Membership fee | Depends on the situation and usage. Also, there is a lot of work that can be done around here to make up for the rest. Individual rooms are available, an average of 2-4 hours work a day is expected in return. Single room cost ranges CHF 500-900.- (with an extra 100.- for heating in the winter season). |
| Size of rooms | 12-50 m³, total is 1200m² |
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| Open to Exchanges? | yes |
| Open to Residencies? | yes |
| Residencies Contact | jczd@engrenage.ch |
| Location | 47° 6' 11.00" N, 6° 50' 33.10" E |
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engrenage is a non-profit association that aims to:
- promote an intelligent, ethical, innovating and esthaetic use of technology ; user ergonomy is also of prime concern but that is considered a subset of "intelligent".
- promote the freedom to use, to create and to modify technical tools
- allow individuals to achieve projects in the fields of art and technology, or to participate to such projects
- gather all the skills needed for all steps of a project, from the R&D phase to long-term follow-up
- promote any form of artistic culture: litterature, music, scenic arts, painting, plastic arts through by teaching, discoveries and experiences ; organizing artistic events (concerts, expositions) ; gathering souls around the epicurian philosophy
- explore techniques to reconcile body, soul and spirit
- create places of emergence, allowing one to invent another way of life and to feed on another imaginary ; giving humans the opportunity to know themselves to better server the societal and environmental challenges here and to come. In that sense, the space in La Chaux-de-Fonds is supposed to be the first of many yet to come.
engrenage is housed in a small building block from the mid-60's in la Chaux-de-Fonds, the reference when it comes to the measure and definition of the (femto)second. The entire block is available, with some guestrooms rented through AirBnB, some rooms for long-term residents, rooms dedicated to various tasks (painting, sewing, movie-watching, breakfast, ...) and a bar. There is much to do, and we are totally into having people coming in as we are in need of hands with some sort of brain behind them.
- hand hammers range ~15g - 5kg
- welder is 180 [A] TIG
Additional equipment includes:
- angle grinder (150 and 300 [mm])
- good quality jigsaw
- electric drill/hammer (one normal and one fairly large)
- electric chainsaw
- vibrating tool
- pentograph
- hex keys up to 65mm
- a 1" pneumatic bolt machine that is a little too strong if you're not careful
- pneumatic rivet machine for 6.5mm rivets
- JCB 3CII backhoe loader
- regulated, USB-controllable 0-60V power supply
- three-phase frequency regulator with RS485 over USB connection
- stuff for painting, masonry, gardening tools...
- a piano and quite a few other music instruments
- A4 printers (many greyscale laser printers, color inkjet)
- 3D printer needs some work to be fixed
- Vorwerk food processor, hot air frier, Kampouze pancake maker
- fireplace in the garden for barbecues and parties ; also includes a 600x1100 [mm] hot stone for cooking
- beach-volley-sized playing field
- decent pharmacy box that even includes scalpels, needles and absorbent thread
- 10-100 [μL] and 100-1000 [μL] lab syringes
- professional bain-marie, about 200x200x150 [mm]
- coffee machine
- what else?
We are searching for:
- any form of lathe (CNC is obviously preferred)
- any form of milling machine (CNC is obviously preferred)
- a decent drill press
- plasma cutter
- something to weld aluminium
There is also a fablab nearby that has a 4W laser cutter, a few 3D printers, a router mill and some other machinery which they mostly don't know how to use and that is not quite in working condition. For more serious demands we go to a private company and send them our DXF files (4kW and 6kW machines are available not too far).
In the making:
- post-combustion Kiln on a rocket stove base. Seriously expecting to exceed MACH 1 at some places thanks to variable geometry
- 1200x800 [mm] coreXY-based platform with ~2300*1600 [mm] motion and 5-phase brushless motors
| This Hackerspace has a | 3D Printer |
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| This Hackerspace has a | Kitchen |
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| This Hackerspace has a | Shower |
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| This Hackerspace has a | Welder |
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| This Hackerspace has a | Air Compressor |
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| This Hackerspace has a | Soldering Iron |
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| This Hackerspace has a | Hot Air Rework Station |
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| This Hackerspace has a | Sewing Machine |
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| This Hackerspace has a | Oscilloscope |
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| This Hackerspace has a | Logic Analyzer |
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| This Hackerspace has a | Handheld Router |
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| This Hackerspace has a | Belt Sander |
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| This Hackerspace has a | Orbital Sander |
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| This Hackerspace has a | Bandsaw |
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| This Hackerspace has a | Panel Saw |
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| This Hackerspace has a | Surface Grinder |
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| This Hackerspace has a | Vector Network Analyzer |
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