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The best way to find a project is by talking with people. We encourage to go directly to the SPOT, where you will find like-minded student and student assistants who will help you on your quest. You can also browse our projects and contact them directly.

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Once your are part of a course or project, you must complete the initial training.

To initial training

This training will give you:

  • Authorization to work in the SPOT
  • Access to the basic tools of the space
  • Access to further training

Use the links above to see what resources are available in our makerspaces.

FAQ

Only bachelor and master students can access the prototyping network and the EPFL makerspaces.

After the online training is successfully validated by a student, she/he will receive different camipro access for the full academic year. The access will be valid until a fixed date set at the 1st of September of the next academic year.

After the online training is successfully validated by a student, she/he will be granted different camipro access depending the project she/he is involved into. More information about the different types of spaces available to students realizing projects is available on this link make.epfl.ch/spaces.

This web page is describing more precisely the camipro access you will be granted to depending on the project category you are registering into.

Here are the different categories of projects and their respected granted accesses after the online training is successfully validated:

  1. Interdisciplinary projects are granted:

    1. The envelop of the SPOT makerspace (DLLEL building) 7/7 between 7h00 to 23h30

    2. Meeting room and conference room and the right to book these rooms 24/7

      1. DLLEL 1 10 (10 people)

      2. DLLEL 1 12 (10 people)

      3. DLLEL 1 14 (15 to 20 people, equiped with camera and microphones for immersive zoom meetings)

      4. DLLEL 1 50 conference room (50 people, equiped with camera and microphones for immersive zoom meetings)

    3. Electronic key manager to access basic tools in the atrium of the SPOT 24/7

    4. Shared storage area (DLLEL -1 54) 24/7

    5. Computer room (ELH 112) to access specific softwares 24/7

    6. Remote computers (more info here) to access specific softwares remotely

  2. EPFL courses with prototyping activities are granted:

    1. The envelop of the SPOT makerspace only during the week days (weekends are restricted to interdisciplinary projects only) between 7h00 to 23h30

    2. Electronic key manager to access basic tools in the atrium of the SPOT 24/7

    3. Shared storage area (DLLEL -1 54) 24/7

  3. EPFL recognized associations realizing validated practical projects are granted the same accesses as the EPFL courses.

  4. EPFL recognized start-ups and other entrepreneurial recognized projects where students validate their ideas with a first prototype, are granted the same accesses as the EPFL courses.

  5. Semester or master projects (in a lab and not in the industry), where students perform rapid prototyping to validate concepts, are granted the same accesses as the EPFL courses.

  1. I did the online training but still don't have the access? –> The problem is probably that your supervisor did not validated (he/she has received an email to validate you). To find your supervisors go to make.epfl.ch/projets –> find your project –> look at the name of the “leader”.

  2. I don't have access to the SKIL or the storage number 3 in the SPOT even though I validated everything, is it normal? –> you can check on this website if you have received the access correctly. If you have the access but cannot open these doors still, you need to update your camipro on a hotspot (SKIL and storage 3 at SPOT are offline readers for example)