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FabLab

FabLab’s high tech­nol­o­gy is avail­able to all, free of charge. At Business­Asema FabLab, you can learn, use and utilise mod­ern dig­i­tal meth­ods of man­u­fac­tur­ing in inno­va­tion, appli­ca­tion and show­cas­ing your exper­tise. The col­lec­tion of dig­i­tal man­u­fac­tur­ing meth­ods can be utilised in both tech­nol­o­gy and art – wel­come to try out the Lab and learn new things!

Equip­ment

Laser cut­ter

Cut pre­cise shapes with dif­fer­ent mate­ri­als

Vinyl cut­ter

Cut stick­ers for trans­fer­ring onto fab­ric with heat press

3D print­er

Three-dimen­sion­al objects and shapes from biodegrad­able mate­r­i­al

3D scan­ner

Scan­ner for three-dimen­sion­al objects and shapes

Milling machines

There are two types of milling machines for dif­fer­ent mate­ri­als

Elec­tron­ics

Sev­er­al dif­fer­ent tools for work­ing with elec­tron­ics

Sewing

Cre­ate hand­i­craft projects or embroi­der a pat­tern onto exist­ing prod­uct

Com­put­ers

Design the mate­ri­als for FabLab equip­ment

TAKE A VIR­TU­AL TOUR OF THE FABLAB

Peek into the Business­Asema FabLab! The HTM­L5-based mas­ter­piece made by Pronikkar­it in the EtäAse­ma project presents the FabLab premis­es and equip­ment in an inter­ac­tive 3D envi­ron­ment.

The project at GitHub (opens in a new tab)

Vir­tu­al FablAB

FABLAB IN OULU AND ABROAD

FabLab is a glob­al con­cept which orig­i­nat­ed at the uni­ver­si­ty of MIT in 2001. The first FabLab to be set up out­side MIT was in India in 2002. Today, the FabLab net­work includes approx. 3000 labs world­wide. Cur­rent­ly there are 12 labs in Fin­land of which half are locat­ed in Oulu. Oulu’s first and Finland’s sec­ond lab was FabLab Oulu at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Oulu. Business­Asema FabLab adheres to the rules of the Fab Char­ter pro­posed by the Fab Foun­da­tion.

In 2023, Oulu joined the glob­al Fab City net­work as the first Finnish city and the first big city in the Nordics. The goal of this net­work is to accom­plish more sus­tain­able and inno­v­a­tive entre­pre­neur­ship, devel­op cir­cu­lar econ­o­my, enable life­time learn­ing for all civic groups, and strive towards a car­bon-neu­tral future. The net­work offers its mem­bers part­ner­ships, tools, train­ing pro­grammes, resources, and vis­i­bil­i­ty glob­al­ly with­in the Fab City theme.

OPEN­ING HOURS AND CON­TACT INFOR­MA­TION FOR BUSINESS­ASEMA FABLAB

Business­Asema FabLab has opened in new premis­es at the OSAO cam­pus, locat­ed at Kotkantie 1.

Entrance to Business­Asema FabLab is from the end of wing E, on the side of park­ing area C. FabLab is locat­ed on the 3rd floor.

Acces­si­ble entry (access to an ele­va­tor) is pos­si­ble through the main door of wing E. You can get an access badge for the ele­va­tor from the office man­agers.

The Business­Asema FabLab is open by reser­va­tion 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. from Mon­day till Fri­day, and any­one can make a reser­va­tion. The max­i­mum rec­om­mend­ed group size is 10–12 peo­ple. FabLab reser­va­tions and the use of mate­ri­als (with­in rea­son­able lim­its) is free of charge. Book­ings must be made no lat­er than the pre­vi­ous week­day by noon.

FabLab is closed from 19 DEC 2025 to 6 JAN 2026

INQUIRIES and Reser­va­tions:

You can make reser­va­tions through the FabLab book­ing cal­en­dar or inquire about avail­able times via email. Group reser­va­tions can only be made via email.

Inquiries and reser­va­tions via email pri­ma­ry to: fablab@businessasema.com

Jari Uusi­ta­lo
Instruc­tor, Business­Asema FabLab
tel. 040 846 2811
jari.uusitalo@businessoulu.com