Prototyping

Mission: Enabling Global Level Innovation through rapid prototyping. Ideas to reality... OVERNIGHT

EIGERlab prototyping has the technology to transform your thoughts into computer models and with the latest technology transform those to physical objects. Using the most diverse assortment of rapid prototyping equipment, we can recommend the process that will best fit your prototyping needs.

Listed below are the EIGERlab prototyping processes performed in-house to minimize the project turn-around time. EIGERlab Prototyping is indicative of the Innovation practiced at the EIGERlab.

“EIGER’s Center for Product Development”
One minute overview video

What if your car broke down on a deserted road and you didn’t have the right tool to fix it?

Now, imagine you’re on the space station in orbit around the Earth and need a certain tool for a task? Wouldn’t it be great to just replicate the custom part or tool you need?

It’s not science fiction. It’s rapid prototyping, and it’s available today at the Center for Product Development at EIGER. With this process, a working prototype of your product is printed in three dimensions, using a variety of materials, like plastic, rubber or metal...

The Michelangelo Project: In the Image and Likeness

This is an interesting video describing how prototyping is being utilized to save precious artwork by scanning and reproducing it in a non-fragile material such as bronze.
The Michelangelo Project: In the Image and Likeness incorporated efforts of the EIGERlab, Art Castings of Illinois, Tuck Lang, Sculptor, Professor Emeritus, Indiana University South Bend, R. Bruce Duncan, President Chicago Appraisers Association, Mike Cobert, Business Incubator, EIGERlab and Dr. Harry Spell, Vice President and Lydia Koepke, Assistant Manager of
Art Castings of Illinois. “According to Professor Lang, “Art is the family photo album of the Human Race. It’s who we were which means who we are; it’s our job to preserve that.”