Illinois MakerLab · Redesign · Oct 2026

Five directions for the new MakerLab

Same content, five design systems. Each page tells the same story: the world's first business school 3D printing lab now runs a fleet of seven current Bambu Lab printers, five of them a gift of Haoyang Xu and Yuxin Ning.

  1. 01
    Datasheet
    A Swiss engineering spec sheet. Hairline grid, title block, a to-scale build-plate comparison and a live price calculator.
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  2. 02
    Toolpath
    Night-blue and molten orange. The hero prints "Learn. Make. Share." layer by layer while the G-code scrolls beside it.
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  3. 03
    Swatch
    Built from filament sample chips. Color-blocked and student-facing, with the gift shown as a two-color swatch.
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  4. 04
    Exhibit
    The lab as a design museum. Each printer is an object on a plinth with a wall label and a credit line.
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  5. 05
    Build Plate
    A slicer-style interface with a rotatable 3D plate, build volumes drawn to scale and a working print estimate.
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Content from makerlab.illinois.edu plus the new fleet: H2S ×2 · H2C ×2 · X2D ×2 · X1C ×1.
Hours, rates and reviews match the current site. Fleet status on the pages is example data.