Innovation Lab
Experience-based and Practical Learning
The Innovation lab is housed in the Technology Center on the Lake Worth campus Room number TC 321. The former classroom has been reimagined as a high-tech sandbox that will provide students with the tools and technologies they need to tackle actual industry challenges in collaboration with Palm Beach County businesses.
The Innovation lab is a Business and Computer Science source for creative inquiry, unconventional research, experimental pedagogy and exploratory play.
Integral to this is building and expanding partnerships between academia and the private sector to create a more marketable student portfolio.
The lab is a maker-space that engages the intersections of business and technology.
The Innovation Lab is crucial as it sets a dedicated space where students will be
able to apply their skills to real life scenarios.
Innovation Lab Features
Innovation Lab services are available by appointment only.
Server / Network Rack
While all of our computers in the lab are ready to run virtual machines, working with industry standard hardware is invaluable. The lab has servers, switches, and routers for you to hone your network administration skills.
Switches: Networking hardware that connect different devices. Multiple devices connected by ethernet cables can communicate by sending data packets across the network. A switch ensures that packets are received by the correct device by using their MAC addresses.
- Cisco Catalyst 2960+ Documentation
- Cisco 1900 (1941) Security Switch Documentation
- Cisco ASA 5505 Documentation
Routers: Networking hardware that connects different networks. Routers communicate with other routers through an internetwork (such as the Internet).
- Cisco 2910 Documentation
- Cisco 870 Documentation
Raspberry Pi
The lab has over thirty Raspberry Pis available for students to checkout. Feel free to bring in your own SD cards or use one pre-installed with the Raspberry Pi operating system.
The Raspberry Pi is a series of small single-board computers developed in the United Kingdom by the Raspberry Pi Foundation. Early on, the Raspberry Pi project leaned towards the promotion of teaching basic computer science in schools and in developing countries. It is now widely used in many areas, such as for weather monitoring, because of its low cost and high portability.
Raspberry Pi is a small, cheap computer. The specs for the Raspberry 3 are as follows: a 4× ARM Cortex-A53 processor, 1GB (900 MHz) RAM, a 10/100 ethernet port , a 2.4GHz 802.11n wireless interface, Bluetooth 4.1 Classic, a 40-pin GPIO header, as well as an HDMI port, 3.5mm analogue audio-video jack, 4 USB 2.0 ports, a Camera Serial Interface (CSI), and a Display Serial Interface (DSI). The Raspberry Pi can run any low spec operating system including Raspbian, Kali Linux, Ubuntu Core, and Windows IOT Core. This means you can perform advanced computing in addition to controlling your electronics. For example, you could run a webserver on the Pi with an html button you could press that would turn on an LED.
Arduino
The Arduino board is less powerful than a Rasberry Pi The specs for the Arduino Uno are as follows: a 14 digital input/output pins (of which 6 can be used as PWM outputs), 6 analog inputs, a 16 MHz ceramic resonator (CSTCE16M0V53-R0), a USB connection, a power jack, an ICSP header and a reset button. Because of these weaker components, you cannot run an operating system on an Arduino. Instead, download and install the Arduino IDE, write your code on another computer and upload it to the board, then the board will compile and run that script. Although you are more limited than with a Pi, it is much easier to fix problems because there is much less overhead.
3D Printer
Until very recently, prototyping was a timely and expensive undertaking. With new developments in 3D printing technology, it is possible to brainstorm, model, and print a rapid prototype in a matter of hours. What can I print?
Create professional-quality, high-resolution prototypes and complex models. 100-micron layer resolution and a 6,717 centimeter3 build volume. For the customer who wants a fast, easy, and affordable tool for making professional-quality models and the best price/performance in desktop 3D printing. Create realistic prototypes and models for demonstrations and presentations. Choose settings that range from fast draft to finer resolution.
Magic Leap Headset
The Magic Leap One is an augmented reality headset that superimposes 3D computer-generated imagery over real world objects, by projecting a digital light field into the user's eye, involving technologies potentially suited to applications in augmented reality and computer vision. Visit the Innovation Lab to explore the future of augmented reality or visit the official developer page to learn to create apps.
Hours & Contact Information
Innovation Lab services are available by appointment only.
