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.
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
3D
- Blender + Plugins
- FreeCAD + Plugins
- Rhino 7 + Plugins
- Sketchup
- Kokopelli
- Antimony
- Fusion360
- OpenScad
- Meshlab
- OnShape
- Monolith
- MagicaVoxel
- Meshmixer
Video
Audio
Elektronik
Programmierung
Internet
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
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 |