FabLab Palermo is an innovation hub that works to connect makers and entrepreneurs, in order to go from the idea to the real product, following the peer to peer design and the open source philosophy sharing knowledge, methods and principles with the world makers community. FabLab Palermo was founded in 2013 by a group of architects, designers, creative people based in Palermo city. The first Fablab in Sicily, it works on the regional territory with a lot of contacts and networks of makers and innovators. This “open mind” and the different kind of people working with Fablab Palermo enlarge areas of project and activity. FabLab Palermo work with: social innovators, experts of digital technologies, digital artisans, public and private bodies, university, schools, professionals, civic communities. Fablab Palermo works to promote and spread the makers’ culture, carrying out classes and workshops, also in partnership with schools, universities and institutions. It as an incubator to go from the idea to the real product or the enterprise, by using the network of contacts and professional resources of fablabs all over the world and also provides services to enterprises, professionals and common people, including design, 3D printing, projects and prototypes development and 3D printers maintenance.
Thanks to a wide network of technical knowledge, Fablab Palermo provides several digital services: CNC milling, Laser Cutting, Engraving, Advertising Graphics, 2D and 3D modelling, rapid prototyping and 3D Printing, Vinyl Cutting, Drone Aerial Shots, 3D scanning and Rendering, Software Developing.