# Relevant For All 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](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](https://www.amazon.de/Open-Circuits-Beauty-Electronic-Components/dp/1718502346) Do not use these resources: - https://annas-archive.org/ - https://sci-hub.st/ ## Papers - Kathrin Smolarczyk - [Let’s get them on board](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212868924000370?via%3Dihub) - [Spiral Development for Non-Software Product and System Engineering](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/378706147_Spiral_Development_for_Non-Software_Product_and_System_Engineering) - [Engineered Wood, conducting, glowing etc](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41578-020-0195-z) # Class Times & Data ## Global Class Wednesdays at 15:00 - 18:00 CET [This](http://fabacademy.org/2025/video.html) is the link to the class videoconference and to the recitations: The very secure password is 1234 ## Local Classes
Local ClassDateTimeLecturer
[website with git](https://tu-ilmenau.webex.com/tu-ilmenau/ldr.php?RCID=a2e40392a8659400bd0bced5191e5dde)23.01.20259h CETFerdi
[Wednesday after class](https://tu-ilmenau.webex.com/tu-ilmenau/ldr.php?RCID=324dfbc034263a8717917c48302efd18)29.01.202518h CETFerdi
[FreeCAD](https://us06web.zoom.us/j/96419721473?pwd=SnVJcGJMMk9JazVtMnozVHAxMXVVUT09)31.01.202511h CETBabken
[Blender](https://us06web.zoom.us/j/96419721473?pwd=SnVJcGJMMk9JazVtMnozVHAxMXVVUT09)30.01.202512h CETFerdi
[Fusion 360](https://us06web.zoom.us/j/96419721473?pwd=SnVJcGJMMk9JazVtMnozVHAxMXVVUT09)30.01.202514h CETSaco
[imagemagick and ffmeg](https://us06web.zoom.us/j/96419721473?pwd=SnVJcGJMMk9JazVtMnozVHAxMXVVUT09)30.01.202516h CETHenk
[Codium, Inkscape, Gimp](https://tu-ilmenau.webex.com/tu-ilmenau/ldr.php?RCID=afc50db6d843913f376de9896b4f0239)03.02.20259h CETFerdi
[FreeCAD](https://tu-ilmenau.webex.com/tu-ilmenau/ldr.php?RCID=d0f434dcf40acaf9fe4ffd699a8fc93d)[lego.pdf](uploads/4d36ca682b297f21401caa04c13e6666/lego01.pdf)04.02.202514h CETFerdi
[Computer controlled cutting](https://tu-ilmenau.webex.com/tu-ilmenau/ldr.php?RCID=ce134e9044ba2c9271d061bc4b12eb22)06.02.202509h CETFerdi
[blender 2](https://tu-ilmenau.webex.com/tu-ilmenau/ldr.php?RCID=3afad93fadf690c9894bfdfbfbcfc846)10.02.202513h CETFerdi
## FabAcademy bootcamp [https://academany.fabcloud.io/fabacademy/2025/bootcamp-students/](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](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/](https://fabacademy.org/2025/labs/ilmenau/) The general website of fabacademy 2025: [https://fabacademy.org/2025/](https://fabacademy.org/2025/) The inventory of everything a fablab needs: [https://inventory.fabcloud.io/](https://inventory.fabcloud.io/) # Students [Benedikt](https://fabacademy.org/2025/labs/ilmenau/students/benedikt-feit/) [Jakob](https://fabacademy.org/2025/labs/ilmenau/students/jakob-lerch/) [Jarni](https://fabacademy.org/2025/labs/ilmenau/students/jarni-castillo/) [Matthias](https://fabacademy.org/2025/labs/ilmenau/students/matthias-testa/) [Niclas](https://fabacademy.org/2025/labs/ilmenau/students/niclas-starost/) [Richard](https://fabacademy.org/2025/labs/ilmenau/students/richard-draxler/) [Sophia](https://fabacademy.org/2025/labs/ilmenau/students/sophia-guzman/) [Joshua](https://joshuakalina.gitlab.io/fabacademy/) # VSCode [Download packages from marketplace](https://gist.github.com/wanglf/7acc591890dc0d8ceff1e7ec9af32a55?permalink_comment_id=5418934#gistcomment-5418934) # 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](https://thenounproject.com/icon/startup-bootcamp-7523814/) [project management & web dev](https://thenounproject.com/icon/web-development-2586087/) [parametric design](https://thenounproject.com/icon/cad-5506420/) [computer controlled cutting](https://thenounproject.com/icon/laser-cutting-7040215/) [embedded programming](https://thenounproject.com/icon/hardware-programming-1619914/) [3d printing](https://thenounproject.com/icon/3d-printing-6964654/) [electronics design](https://thenounproject.com/icon/circuit-31678/) [computer controlled machining](https://thenounproject.com/icon/drilling-machine-7040228/) [electronics production](https://thenounproject.com/icon/soldering-7298061/) [Input devices](https://thenounproject.com/icon/switch-6784212/) [output devices](https://thenounproject.com/icon/led-7037426/) [molding casting](https://thenounproject.com/icon/casting-7040258/) [application programming](https://thenounproject.com/icon/programming-interface-3445732/) [networking](https://thenounproject.com/icon/programming-interface-1119909/) [system integration](https://thenounproject.com/icon/system-integration-6079689/) [wildcard](https://thenounproject.com/icon/joker-4214786/) [intellectual property](https://thenounproject.com/icon/copyright-3882411/) # 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](https://academy.cba.mit.edu/classes/computer_design/video.html) # Knigge only underlinethings that aren't underlined yet # Software ### 2D - [GIMP](https://www.gimp.org/) - [BIMP](https://alessandrofrancesconi.it/projects/bimp/) - Inkscape + Plugins - [LibreCAD](https://librecad.org/) - DraftSight - Mypaint - Scribus - [xnconvert](https://www.xnview.com/en/xnconvert/) ### 3D - [Blender](https://www.blender.org/) + Plugins - [FreeCAD](https://www.freecadweb.org/) + Plugins - Rhino 7 + Plugins - Sketchup - Kokopelli - Antimony - Fusion360 - OpenScad - Meshlab - OnShape - Monolith - MagicaVoxel - Meshmixer ### Video - [Handbrake](https://handbrake.fr/) - [Kdenlive](https://kdenlive.org/en/) - [DaVinci Resolve](https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/) - [OBS Studio](https://obsproject.com/download) - [VLC](https://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html) ### Audio - [Audacity](https://www.audacityteam.org/) ### Elektronik - [winavr](https://sourceforge.net/projects/winavr/) oder - [zadig](https://zadig.akeo.ie/) - [avrdude](http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/avrdude/avrdude-6.3-mingw32.zip) - [Fritzing](https://fritzing.org/home/) - [Arduino](https://www.arduino.cc/) - [KiCad](https://www.kicad.org/) - Eagle - NGSpice / TCLSpice - [InteractiveHtmlBom](https://github.com/openscopeproject/InteractiveHtmlBom) ### Programmierung - [VSCodium](https://vscodium.com/) - [vscode-paste-image](https://github.com/mushanshitiancai/vscode-paste-image/blob/master/README.md) - [Processing](https://processing.org/) ### Internet - [Chromium](https://www.google.com/chrome/) ### CAM - Fab-modules / [Mods](https://modsproject.org/) ### 3D-Scanning - Meshroom ### 3D-Drucken - Cura - Slic3r - Repetier host - Skeinforge - OctoPrint - [Prusaslicer](https://www.prusa3d.com/de/page/prusaslicer_424/) ### Tools - Universal Gcode Sender - Universal Gcode Platform - 7zip - git - Atmel GNU Toolchain - GNU Make - Slack - Vokoscreen - Acrobat reader - Skype - Zoom - [Unity](https://unity3d.com/de) - [ffmpeg](https://www.ffmpeg.org/) [gui --> 3 Graphical-User-Interface-Applications-using-FFmpeg](https://github.com/amiaopensource/ffmpeg-amia-wiki/wiki/3)-Graphical-User-Interface-Applications-using-FFmpeg "https://github.com/amiaopensource/ffmpeg-amia-wiki/wiki/3)-Graphical-User-Interface-Applications-using-FFmpeg") [for the CLI-lovers](https://ffmpeg.org/download.html) - ImageMagick - Slicer (Fusion) - Modela Player - CAMotics - [UVTools](https://github.com/sn4k3/UVtools) ### Compiler - gcc - Atmel Studio - Eclipse + AVR - Firefly - Scratch - PureData - Python + Module (NumPy, SciPy, matplotlib, Tk, Tkinter…) - FlatCAM ### Online - [photopea](https://www.photopea.com/) ### Andere - Simplify3D - Rhino - Solidworks - XDesign - Netzwerkfreigabe - Ftdi Treiber path variable pointing to avr8-gnu-toolchain, GnuWin32, avrdude # weeks
weekdatetopic
week0122.01.2025principles and practices, presentations, introductions , project management
week0229.01.2025computer-aided design
week0305.02.2025computer-controlled cutting
week0412.02.2025embedded programming
week0519.02.20253D scanning and printing
week0626.02.2025electronics design
week0705.03.2025 computer-controlled machining
week0812.03.2025electronics production
week0919.03.2025input devices
week1026.03.2025output devices
week1102.04.2025networking and communications
week1209.04.2025mechanical design, machine design
week1323.04.2025molding and casting
week1430.04.2025interface and application programming
week1507.05.2025system integration
week1614.05.2025wildcard week
week1721.05.2025applications and implications, project development
week1828.05.2025invention, intellectual property, and income
week1902.06.2025 weekly assignments deadline
week2009.06.2025final project presentations