Relevant For All Weeks

• Quotes
• Funny Things
• Literature
• Class Times & Data
• Bookmarks
• Students
• VSCode
• Icons
• Tutorials
• Knigge
• Software
• weeks

Quotes

• Neil Week 2, 2025: 1:11:49 "And so asking which one to use is like asking who you should date"
• Neil Week 2, 2025: "For engineering advices AI is almost always almost right." - Neil
• Neil Week 7, 2025: minute 30 "If you're on windows, I strongly recommend using the Linux subsystem..."
• Neil Week 8, 2025: 16:50 "I like PNGs"
• FA Chat: "Who needs Git when you have OneDrive?"
• Ferdi: "Das verfluchte Outlook"
• (Somebody mumbles something non-understandable) Neil: "Okay"

Funny Things

http://archive.fabacademy.org/2019/labs/waag/machine.mp4

Literature

Books

• Paul Horowitz, Winfield Hill - The Art of Electronics
• Neil Gershenfeld - FAB: The Coming Revolution on Your Desktop
• http://cba.mit.edu/docs/papers/12.09.FA.pdf
• The Mythical Man Month; The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering by Frederick P. Brooks Jr. | Goodreads
• Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen | Goodreads
• A system to organise your life • Johnny.Decimal
• Open Circuits

Do not use these resources:

• https://annas-archive.org/
• https://sci-hub.st/

Papers

• Kathrin Smolarczyk - Let’s get them on board
• Spiral Development for Non-Software Product and System Engineering
• Engineered Wood, conducting, glowing etc

Class Times & Data

Global Class

Wednesdays at 15:00 - 18:00 CET

This is the link to the class videoconference and to the recitations:
The very secure password is 1234

Local Classes

Local Class	Date	Time	Lecturer
website with git	23.01.2025	9h CET	Ferdi
Wednesday after class	29.01.2025	18h CET	Ferdi
FreeCAD	31.01.2025	11h CET	Babken
Blender	30.01.2025	12h CET	Ferdi
Fusion 360	30.01.2025	14h CET	Saco
imagemagick and ffmeg	30.01.2025	16h CET	Henk
Codium, Inkscape, Gimp	03.02.2025	9h CET	Ferdi
FreeCADlego.pdf	04.02.2025	14h CET	Ferdi
Computer controlled cutting	06.02.2025	09h CET	Ferdi
blender 2	10.02.2025	13h CET	Ferdi

FabAcademy bootcamp

https://academany.fabcloud.io/fabacademy/2025/bootcamp-students/

Monday 20.1.2025 15-18h CET and
Tuesday 20.1.2025 15-18h CET
http://fabacademy.org/2021/video.html
https://zoom.us/j/89416278965

Regional review

Area: North Europe
Labs: AgriLab, Amsterdam - Waag, Kamp-Lintfort, ULB, Armenia, TU-Ilmenau
Mentor: Henk, Luc, Ahmed, Nicolas, Ferdi, Babken
When: Every Wednesday, 13:00 CET
Where: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/96419721473
Mattermost Group: https://chat.academany.org/fabacademy-2025/channels/regional-europe---amsterdam---agrilab---dilijan

MCU (always available video channel)

http://fab.academany.org/2020/mcu.html or:
https://zoom.us/j/9699009392

Global open time

Labs: All the world
Mentor: Rico, Pablo, Adrián
When: Every Saturday at 10:00 EDT 16:00 CET 15:00 GMT for 1 hour.
Where: MCU Zoom. meeting ID: 969-900-9392 password: 1234
Mattermost Group: https://chat.academany.org/fabacademy-2025/channels/global-open-time

Instructor bootcamp

Monday-Friday Jan 13-17, in-person in Peru and by video in the class conference:

meeting ID: 894 1627 8965, password: 1234\
can connect via browser: http://fabacademy.org/2025/video.html\
or: https://zoom.us/j/89416278965\
or app: https://zoom.us/download\
or phone: +1 (669) 900-6833

https://gitlab.fabcloud.org/academany/fabacademy/2025/bootcamp-instructors

CET = Central European Time = Ilmenau time

Bookmarks

Fablab

Our TU Ilmenau website on fabacademy.org:
https://fabacademy.org/2025/labs/ilmenau/

The general website of fabacademy 2025:
https://fabacademy.org/2025/

The inventory of everything a fablab needs:
https://inventory.fabcloud.io/

Students

Benedikt
Jakob
Jarni
Matthias
Niclas
Richard
Sophia
Joshua

VSCode

Download packages from marketplace

Icons

These are the icons we want to set as cover images for each week. they still need to be downloaded and prepared.

Note that attribution is required. For that you can create a separate page "Attribution" in every week containing the attribution text.

bootcamp

project management & web dev

parametric design

computer controlled cutting

embedded programming

3d printing

electronics design

computer controlled machining

electronics production

Input devices

output devices

molding casting

application programming

networking

system integration

wildcard

intellectual property

Tutorials

How to configure Carvera for Fusion on Windows:

How to install ffmpeg on Windows:

https://academy.cba.mit.edu/classes/computer_design/video.html

Knigge

only underline things that aren't underlined yet

Software

2D

• GIMP
• BIMP
• Inkscape + Plugins
• LibreCAD
• DraftSight
• Mypaint
• Scribus
• xnconvert

3D

• Blender + Plugins
• FreeCAD + Plugins
• Rhino 7 + Plugins
• Sketchup
• Kokopelli
• Antimony
• Fusion360
• OpenScad
• Meshlab
• OnShape
• Monolith
• MagicaVoxel
• Meshmixer

Video

• Handbrake
• Kdenlive
• DaVinci Resolve
• OBS Studio
• VLC

Audio

• Audacity

Elektronik

• winavr oder
• zadig
• avrdude
• Fritzing
• Arduino
• KiCad
• Eagle
• NGSpice / TCLSpice
• InteractiveHtmlBom

Programmierung

• VSCodium
• vscode-paste-image
• Processing

Internet

• Chromium

CAM

• Fab-modules / Mods

3D-Scanning

• Meshroom

3D-Drucken

• Cura
• Slic3r
• Repetier host
• Skeinforge
• OctoPrint
• Prusaslicer

Tools

• Universal Gcode Sender
• Universal Gcode Platform
• 7zip
• git
• Atmel GNU Toolchain
• GNU Make
• Slack
• Vokoscreen
• Acrobat reader
• Skype
• Zoom
• Unity
• ffmpeg gui --> 3 Graphical-User-Interface-Applications-using-FFmpeg for the CLI-lovers
• ImageMagick
• Slicer (Fusion)
• Modela Player
• CAMotics
• UVTools

Compiler

• gcc
• Atmel Studio
• Eclipse + AVR
• Firefly
• Scratch
• PureData
• Python + Module (NumPy, SciPy, matplotlib, Tk, Tkinter…)
• FlatCAM

Online

• photopea

Andere

• Simplify3D
• Rhino
• Solidworks
• XDesign
• Netzwerkfreigabe
• Ftdi Treiber path variable pointing to avr8-gnu-toolchain, GnuWin32, avrdude

weeks

week	date	topic
week01	22.01.2025	principles and practices, presentations, introductions , project management
week02	29.01.2025	computer-aided design
week03	05.02.2025	computer-controlled cutting
week04	12.02.2025	embedded programming
week05	19.02.2025	3D scanning and printing
week06	26.02.2025	electronics design
week07	05.03.2025	computer-controlled machining
week08	12.03.2025	electronics production
week09	19.03.2025	input devices
week10	26.03.2025	output devices
week11	02.04.2025	networking and communications
week12	09.04.2025	mechanical design, machine design
week13	23.04.2025	molding and casting
week14	30.04.2025	interface and application programming
week15	07.05.2025	system integration
week16	14.05.2025	wildcard week
week17	21.05.2025	applications and implications, project development
week18	28.05.2025	invention, intellectual property, and income
week19	02.06.2025	weekly assignments deadline
week20	09.06.2025	final project presentations