Welcome! This organisation hosts the design and manufacturing files behind Scalable Labs, a growing library of open-source engineering laboratory exercises for mechanical, aerospace, and mechatronics education.

Every lab in this collection is built to the same brief:

• Theory meets practice. Each exercise pairs a fundamental engineering concept with hands-on experimentation.
• Open-source, top to bottom. Hardware and software are freely available, so any institution can build, adapt, or extend a lab.
• Manufacturable. Designed for assembly using mature electronics assembly pathways, and only basic in-house tools required at final-assembly.
• Hackable and repairable. Students and technicians can open the rig up, understand it, and fix it.
• Small footprint. Compact enough to store and deploy without a dedicated lab space.
• Intrinsically safe. No extensive risk assessment required before students get hands-on.
• Open-ended. Rather than a fixed procedure, students design their own experiments to meet the lab objective.

This GitHub organisation holds the instructor-facing files for each lab: source code, CAD, PCB design files, bills of materials, and commissioning guides.

Student-facing material lives on the companion GitBook, including lab operating instructions, the full documentation index, and current lab status:

The GitBook explains how to execute a lab; this organisation holds what you need to build one.

More labs are in development. Track their progress on the lab status table on the GitBook.

Initial development of the Scalable Labs ecosystem was supported by a Mathworks Curriculum Development Support grant.