Basic Rules & Regs

[These are currently under development and review for the new ISC4 Makerspace Center.]

Some basic guidelines, rules, and intents for accessing the Makerspaces at William & Mary:

1. All Makerspaces are open for access by all members of the William & Mary community. This includes students, staff, faculty and alumni.
2. Makerspaces are run by our team of Makerspaces Student Engineers (MSEs) through an online ticketing system located at this website. This is the only way to engage with MSEs in order to schedule training, reserve a piece of equipment, or submit any other requests and all engagements must go through the ticketing (“Service Portal”) system. We welcome users to come visit the front desk in the ISC4 Makerspace center, however, requests will still need to go through our service portal.
3. All equipment requires successful completion of certification.
4. Follow the William & Mary Honor Code at all times.
5. Access to the ISC4 Makerspace Center is allowed only during open access hours.
6. 3D Printing Guidelines
   1. 3D printing services are currently provided at no additional cost to members of the William & Mary community and prints are prepared and started by on-duty MSEs only.
   2. 3D prints are limited by printer type for personal printing requests:
      • Printing limitations and resourcing are currently under consideration.
      • Alternative materials including PETG, ABS, Nylon6- & Nylon12-, and ASA, with and without carbon fiber fill, can be requested for academic, research, or student club use.
      • Markforged polymer and metal printing systems are reserved for academic, research, or student club use and not available for personal printing.
      • Designs will need to be submitted as .STL or .EMF file types for printing.
      • Designs will be reviewed and if they are found to need improvements to be more manufacturable, the MSEs will help guide ways in which to improve the design.
      • Printing can be refused due to the content of the print by MSEs. Prints will be refused if they contain obscenity, weapons or illegal paraphernalia, blatantly offensive topics, or are unnecessarily wasteful.
      • With the health and safety of our maker community in mind, we do not allow prints that will be in contact with an individual’s mouth or food. This includes items like whistles, wind instruments, cutlery, and dishware.
7. User Prioritization Schema: As we receive a lot of requests around a multitude of topics, we have to prioritize the order in which these are completed. The priority is as follows:
   1. Curricular needs, research requests, and faculty grant writing/prototype support
   2. Non-academic group projects (Student clubs, team builds, etc)
   3. Ad-Hoc learning opportunities (It’s your first time printing, CNC milling, building a robot, etc. We’ll help you learn and give you a little material with which to work.)
   4. Everything else. (Want to CNC route a new sign for fun, or 3D print a cosplay aesthetic? We got you… after everything else is completed though.)
8. Users are expected to cleanup after themselves. Failure to do this can be grounds for access bans.
9. Prohibited items: users are not allowed to make &/or modify weapons (including fantasy and replica weapons), drug paraphernalia or vulgar items.
10. Users cannot produce goods for commercial sale.
11. Users are expected to utilize appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) when in the spaces and check to make sure they are not endangering any other nearby users with their actions.
12. All workshops surrounding the main design studio require access certifications and training. These include the LASERs lab, hard materials & soft materials processing labs, Additive Manufacturing & Electronics lab, and the walk-in spray booth and finishing room.